Thank you, darlings, for all the kind notes about quitting my day job!
This whole yarn-thing is going to be a huge adventure and I want to bring you along!
I was thinking about exploring and summer adventures and I came up with an awesome way for us to do this together – a summer yarn/fiber club!
Each month I’ll send you a skein of yarn (or 4 oz of fiber) – and every month we’ll explore a different eco-friendly fiber!
To help us fully explore that fiber, I’ll send you an email with info on the actual fiber (how it’s harvested, where it comes from, what makes it eco-friendly), tips for working on it and (for the yarn clubs) patterns that suit the skein of yarn you got!
As a little make-sure-your-summer-crafting-is-stress-free-bonus, we can hook up for a 30 minute help session. We can do this over email, the phone, or whatever chat thingy you use (facebook, gmail, AOL, whatever!). You’ll just shoot me an email when you have an issue and we’ll schedule a time (within 2 days) to work on it.
I first told my VIP list about the Adventure Clubs yesterday and already 3 of the 10 filled up! Some of those adventuresome-members had questions about the club. Below are the questions and answers!
(Of course, if you’re ready to join the Adventure, you can find all the clubs here.)
- What kind of project can I make of 100 yards yarn?
100 yards of bulky yarn is enough to make a scarf or hat. I actually have a list of possible patterns on my blog. - What do you mean by “30 minute help session with me”?
The help-session is just for those who want it – you can email me with any question you have – anything knitting or crochet or spinning (whether it’s related to my yarn or not) and we’ll either talk about it over email, or we can schedule a phone chat (the free service Skype would make the call free!)I used to do this at yarn stores – customers would come in with any tricky thing they had during the hours I was there and I would help them with it.I’ve been wondering how I could offer that online and this seemed like a good opportunity to test it out!
- Do you want to ship to Europe?
I don’t mind shipping overseas at all! You can see the shipping price at the bottom of the listing (and that price covers ALL of the packages for the entire length of the club)
- What weight is the yarn that I’ll receive?
Every month will be different, because they’ll each be a different material. In general, though, my yarn is worsted or heavier.
- I love bright colors. Is that a problem? Bright colors are my specialty! You tell me what color you want and every skein will be in that same range (different materials take the dye differently, so there will be some variation, but they will definitely all go together!)If you really want to be adventurous, then each month you can get a different, surprise color!
- Can you help me with possible patterns for the yarns I receive from you?
By the 15th of each month, you’ll receive an email that includes information about the fiber, some pattern ideas (including direct links to patterns that will work!) and how to best work with it. You also might want to make one bigger project using all the yarns together, so I’ll give some ideas for that, too!And here’s a little secret – I really want to make these monthly updates videos! If I can figure out the tech side of it, you’ll get a short little message from me, just talking about the fiber! Either way you’ll always get a written explanation that you can refer to when you don’t feel like watching the whole video!
- I would be interested in a friend and I doing it together.
Awesomesauce! I think this would be super-fun to do with a friend! If you want to buy more than one club at once, just add it to your cart, then pick the number you want from the dropdown. If you want more than are available, drop me a note and I’ll list another (if the spots are still available).If you do buy more than one, just make sure to give me both addresses, so your friend gets theirs (or I can send them both to you…just let me know!)
- What do you mean you have 7 spots left? Is that 7 months?
I mean that I can only handle 10 people in the club at month – to ensure maximum awesomeness. 3 spots have already sold, so there are 7 spots left for either the fiber or the yarn club.
Any questions I didn’t answer here? Just leave them below email me!!
