We made it to 100 sales at Nooch Fiber! Go us! I’m so so happy – it’s almost our 6 month anniversary and I feel like 100 sales is not too shabby. :)

To celebrate we’re doing a super awesome giveaway of these four beautiful mini skeins (45yds / superwash merino / hand dyed):

Last time we did a giveaway there were lots and lots of comments, so this time we’ve decided to give each mini skein away to one person, meaning that four people get to win! Yay!

In order to be in the running, please visit Nooch Fiber and take a look at our stock first! (We really appreciate it!) Then come back here and comment on this post! It’s that easy. The four winners will be selected on February 5th, 2012 through a random number generator. :D

But that’s not all! As a thanks to everyone who has supported us we are offering a brand new coupon until February 5th: NOOCH100 will give you 20% off your entire purchase!

Thanks everyone and hope to see your comments soon! Much love! <3

Here’s the deal: we’re at 99 sales over at Nooch Fiber. We really want to get to 100 because that’s when we’ll be starting up SUPER AWESOME festivities on this blog and giving away several mini skeins!

How can you help? Well, it’s supposed to be a secret, but the person who is responsible for our 100th sale is going to get a custom dyed full size skein of sock yarn OR 5 custom dyed mini skeins! Have you been holding out on getting something over at Nooch that you like? Right now might be a good time…….. ;)

Fine print – I’m probably going to be going to bed relatively soon. Just keep in mind that this will be go to the 100th sale – if it’s already at 100, that means someone else already got it. :)

:D

I’ve been very busy with my new ladybug spinning wheel. Check out all the spinning I’ve done in the past week or so:

2-ply fingering

Single-ply fingering

2-ply worsted

2-ply worsted

2-ply fingering

2-ply worsted

Pretty cool, huh? It’s a LOT faster than spinning on a spindle… I’m pretty sure I’m going to start selling mini skeins of fingering handspun on Nooch Fiber! :D Speaking of Nooch Fiber, I just added two new sets of mini skeins (with many MANY more to come, promise!):

There are LOTS more drying right now, to be posted tomorrow or the day after. :) I’m also planning another fun giveaway here on the blog and some special coupons…………. So keep an eye out for that post! :D

Hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend! :D

I’m loving how it looks so far…….. :D

Things that have happened since my last post:

Finished my PhD Coursework!
I honestly couldn’t wait and now it feels so good! I was so tired of taking classes and, honestly, many of them were not really applicable to where I want to go with my career. I guess it’s not worth complaining about now and you never know what might be useful! (Doesn’t mean I’m not super STOKED to not have to spend a considerable chunk of my name on that stuff…….)

Went to Rio (where I’m from) for vacation with my family
So that is a pretty horrible cell phone picture, but it was a blast! :) I love spending time with my brother, sister, and parents! Also, my father’s wife is pregnant!! You know what that means – BABY KNITTING! FUCK YES, I FINALLY HAVE AN EXCUSE TO MAKE ADORABLE THINGS THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE USEFUL! >:D
I also spent both Christmas and New Years over there, which was great, since my Mom has an apartment on Copacabana beach and we got to watch the fireworks there without too much trouble:

Got a sweet haircut while in Rio
Also a crappy cell phone picture, but this is Helio, who is a genius and has been cutting my hair since age 2 (!) when I first got my hair cut. Love him!

Hexipuffs!
Nope, I can’t write a blog post without mentioning those damn addictive puffs! I’m up to 220 now!
I’m starting to think that the quilt is looking just a TAD cool and dark, but that might just be because I have a lot of warm and light colors waiting to be knit up? I’m going to wait a little before making any more, ahem, compulsive yarn purchases.

Schacht Ladybug!
Nick got my an AWESOME spinning wheel for Christmas and I picked up spinning on it in less than 15 minutes. It has been so fun and so much quicker than the spindle!
I was able to spin these 3 ounces of plied yarn in about 3 hours!

Apartment Move!
Nick and I got this amazing apartment in a co-op building and we’re moving this Thursday (the 12th). Yes, my life is a mess, and yes, I am insane for scheduling a move just a few days after I arrive from a 3 week out-of-country vacation. :D It does seem like things are working out fairly well, and, believe it or not, we’re almost completely packed as of right now! Now I just have to distract myself so I can live with this mess of boxes until Thursday morning…

Things that will happen soon!
- I am doing a bunch of swaps on rav for miniskeins and I’ve mostly sent out all my yarns, but I need to make sure I stay on top of those!
- I need to get back to dyeing for Nooch Fiber! :( Haven’t been able to since I got back on Saturday morning because of all this move insanity!

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Holy crap! We sold, so, much, stuff. We were literally knocked back to something like 10 items in Nooch Fiber. :o It was AWESOME. Check out the view stats:

Monday was our busiest day ever! Just for reference: the little blip all the way on the left is when I did the mini skein giveaway on this blog. Crazy, right? It was super exciting. I recently got the etsy app on my iphone and I just remember sitting in my stats class and seeing all the orders coming in! :D

Thank you so much to everyone who purchased something on that day! <3 You're all rockstars. I hope you enjoy crafting with our yarn and fiber as much as we enjoyed dyeing it!

Puffy Insanity

My obsession with the hexpuff quilt has continued. I’m up to about 130 puffs now!! Here are my most recent puffs:

And a picture of all the puffs as of a couple days ago:

I feel like I’m still missing some more neutrals… I know there aren’t that many blue puffs, but it just feels too navy to me at the moment. Hard to justify buying more yarn for this project though………. :3 Especially considering the money I’ve spent on Christmas gifts!

Harry Potter

That’s what Nick and I decided would be our next collection at Nooch Fiber! Woohoo! It’s going to be our largest to date – 26 one of a kind colors inspired by all of my favorite characters in the books (that’s right, MY favorites, so no Ginny Weasley, she’s annoying). So far, I’ve dyed five rovings: Minerva Mcgonagall, Nearly Headless Nick, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Rubeus Hagrid. My favorite is Lupin:

It’s so soft and fluffy! ^.^

We’ve also ordered a whole cone of tight twist sock yarn, which will be mini skeined up as soon as it gets here! (please please please let it be before I leave for Brazil on the 14th!!!!) :D