Lady Purl Designs

I created a bunch of new color ways for the Sheep In The City Getaway, some sold immediately, some might not have been common enough references for this particular event (Dr. Girlfriend, for instance, might have gone over a few heads, lol) but I have posted all of these new geeky color ways on my etsy page: LadyPurl.etsy.com. Also posted a lot of pictures on my Facebook page. If you haven't already liked my Lady Purl Designs Facebook page you should log on and LIKE it :}. My next vending event will be here in Milwaukee, a sci-fi con called Concinity at MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) held or sponsored by the Milwaukee Timelords and Milwaukee Steampunk Society. We'll see if this goes as well, but I have a feeling if I bump up the Doctor Who themes a lot I should be able to at least talk a bunch of nerdy boys into buying yarn for their knitty girlfriends, hehe.

http://just4ewe.com/Sheep_in_the_City/Sheep_in_the_City/Welcome.html SHEEP IN THE CITY! ONE WEEK AWAY! I AM FREAKING OUT! A little more info on the conference: It'll be located at  Comfort Suites at  6362 S. 13th St.  Oak Creek,WI 53154. Goes from Friday Feb. 22nd to Sunday Feb. 24th. I will be there the whole time selling my yarn (pretty sure in the front lobby where people register and pay to get in).  EEEEEEEeeeee! This is the first con that Lady Purl Designs will be vending at. A real milestone. I've spend a lot of time preparing for this moment, literally a year of work in preparation. I may not have a lot in comparison to the other vendors with huge booths, but the little I have packs a punch. I was able to get a lot of the great vending accessories like stamped bags, labels, cards, and (my personal favorite) beautiful hand-built yarn trees to display my yarn! I feel like I will at least look professional even if my table is tiny and I don't have 700 ske...

Hey all! So 2012 was a busy year! I made Lady Purl Designs into a real business, one I am very proud of. I'm going to dedicate this post to some of the yarns I have dyed that I'm particularly proud of. Big Damn Heroes: 221B Baker Street The Shire Special Self-Stripping Yarn, Custom Order Beauty's Curse Vincent's Sky Sparkle Yarn Pandorica So I hope you enjoyed looking at these beauties. I'm going to try to recreate all of them for my table at "Sheep in the City" a yarn fair in Milwaukee that I get to be a vendor at. My inventory is a 3rd of the way there, and with just a month and a half to go I'm dyeing like a fiend!

Dyed up this yarn (whilst drinking a bunch of margaritas ^_^) tonight for a giveaway. It's through The Hat Factory on Facebook. You can visit it here . Hopefully this will draw lots of yarnistas to my FB page, and motivate me to dye up some new yarn! I'm calling it Wildflower.

These little guys are "Dimples" and "Maddy" (Maddy is named after her new mommy, Madison Young, the film maker that I had the honor of meeting this week who said she liked Dimples so much I had to make her one of her own.) Now these little critters are hollow and can cover anything, though I've been selling them at the store The Tool Shed , where I work, to cover naughty things like vibrators, dildoes, and/or butt-plugs, and make them look adorable and fun. A customer and fellow knitter asked if I would divulge the pattern and since most people that might have a use for one of these babies can't make it all the way to Milwaukee, WI to buy one of mine, I figured I would share the simple pattern with the world so they can have their own Octo-Cozy. Octo-Cozy Yarn : Any yarn can be used for this project depending on how large you want the cozy to be. I used sock yarn for both of these examples, one was self-stripping sock yarn so I only used one col...

Some new skeins I've dyed up!  This rosey one is "Saffron." Inspired by the character of Saffron/Yolanda/Bridget/Mrs. Reynolds from "Firefly."  "Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster" inspired by "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." "From Clay" inspired by Wonder Woman. "The Shire" inspired by Lord of the Rings and the new Hobbit movie.

I've been consistently selling yarn, about a skein a week on average! I hate to see them go, but I love to watch them leave! ...That might not make sense, lol. I got to wind up my "Sunnydale Pride" and it looked so cute as a little ball of yarn. I also sold 3 Firefly themed yarns "Browncoat's Rebellion," "The Man They Call Jayne," and "Big Damn Heroes," as well as my Doctor Who yarn, "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space," my Venture Bros. themed yarn "The Revenge Society," and my BBC's SHERLOCK yarn called, "221B Baker St." Going to make some yarn inspired my Ramona Flowers today!