Sara's Texture Crafts... HQ Log

Just a quick update to let you know that I have opened a competition for any Ravelry members who want to compete with me in the Tour de Fleece… when I say ‘compete’, I mean a friendly spin-along!

The Tour de Fleece is a friendly spin-along held on Ravelry each year. It follows the Tour de France bike race, with the idea that as they ride we spin; covering yardage, as they cover mileage. There are various groups and prizes you can be involved, with the simplest premise that we spin, socialize and generally enjoy almost a full month at our beloved wheels.

I thought it might be fun to join in and share some offerings from my shop. Here’s what’s up for grabs;

1. A 10% discount on an order at www.sarastexturecrafts.com by adding the discount code: teamSarasTextureCrafts2012 at the checkout.
2. Secondly a prize of 100g of dyed tops to one lucky winner. This I will be dyeing especially for the Tour de Fleece and pictures will follow soon.

Rules:

• Discount – you will receive 10% off of your order, by adding the code teamSarasTextureCrafts2012 at the checkout. This is not redeemable at a later stage and is limited to one order per person. Discounts are open from 1^st of June to the 20^th of July 2012.
• Prize drawing –
  • To enter for the prize you must be a member on Ravelry (free and fabulous!). When you log in, sign up to the official Sara’s Texture Crafts team at
  • Post pictures of your work as you go and generally join in the discussion to meet and spin-along with us. You can also tag your hand spun yarns with teamSarasTextureCrafts2012 as you enter them onto your Ravelry notebook. However, this is not essential, as I will be drawing a winner from the discussion thread.
  • The Tour de Fleece officially closes on the 22^nd of July, but I will extend my closing date until the 6^th of August so that you have time to wash, dry and photograph any yarns made in the final few days.
  • Each member will receive one entry in to the price drawing for posting pictures of their hand spun yarns. However, if you spin and submit pictures of spinning with fibre from Sara’s Texture Crafts you will get a second entry.
  • I will announce the winner on the 10^th of August 2012.

Official team thread and competition is at http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/tour-de-fleece/topics/2160691

Welcome to the next shop update! It’s been a while so I am very excited to upload new stock for you to take home and play with…

Ok, here’s the list;

• Hand dyed tops – these include Jacob humbug blends, Shetland, Falkland, BFL and Merino/Tencel blends.
• More hand dyed yarn – Aran, DK and Lace (more to follow in the next update)
• Fleece – I have my first Romney fleeces here and I picked up a pretty little Hebridean fleece on my travels. Most Farmers up until now have had trouble shearing on time, due to the weather. I’m hoping the past week or so will have helped, however we do rely on only a few shearers in the area. With this in mind please keep revisiting shop updates and following my free monthly newsletters. As soon as I have stock I will let you know.

It seems short and sweet, but there is a lot of choice, some new colourways and updates on sold lines. I have also updated stock levels to reflect Ashford a new Ashford equipment order I have just received.

If you remember seeing something at the Devon County Show and it’s not back in stock yet, let me know and I’ll see if I can make some more.

You can find all of these in the shop at www.sarastexturecrafts.com

Sara x

Next Update Due: 8^th June! This will include more fleeces (depending on the weather for shearing) and a few new free knit patterns.

Don’t forget to come and see me at my next events as I’ll probably be showing exclusive new hand dyed shades! http://sarastexturecrafts.com/page/5172-events.aspx