Buy A Share in a Flock of Yarn

Ok, so maybe sheep and goats should not be reffered to as “Walking Yarn” but anyone addicted to yarns will know how I feel.

Dreamend of owning your own yarn supply? But Don’t have room for some “Walking Yarn” in your back yard? then this just might be the answer.

Martha’s vineyard fiber farm is selling shares in their flock.
You can purchase a share of the Spring 2008 clip and they take care of all the fun stuff like shoveling shi* and tending to the need of the “walking yarn” animals.

Hereâ€™s How it Works

When you purchase a share in the CSA you are investing in the Spring 2008 â€œyarn harvestâ€. Youâ€™ll receive an shareholders certificate, weekly email updates on whatâ€™s going on around the farm and an invitation to the Shearing Day Celebration.
After shearing, youâ€™ll receive your share of the harvest. The number of skeins, yaradage, etc., will depend on the size of the clip . You can chose to take all of your share in one kind of yarn or receive a sampler with some of each of the yarns they produce, including mohair, kid mohair, Cormo and Cotswold.

How much does a share cost? it is $100 per share. For more details visit the website

Next Pattern:

Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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