Single Skeins: Highlander

Hello and welcome to Single Skeins- an online matching service that specializes fiber crafters to the alpaca yarn or alpaca blend of their dreams! Today's featured beauty is....

Highlander!

Name: Highlander

Color: Hawthorne Pink

Sign: Libra

Yardage: 145

Story:

"I'm just your typical outdoorsy lass looking for that special fiber crafter to bring out the best in me!"

Perfect Match:

"I'm a very easy to please yarn that works in all sorts of projects. I'm looking for someone who is fearless and loves working with ruggedly adorable yarns like me! :p I work up best on 7's to 10's for you knitters out there and am a snuggly blend that makes everything from sweet sweaters to awesome accesories!"

Perfect Date:

"While I come in some girly colors, I'm no girly-girl! Take me hiking, camping or rock climbing. I also love a good road trip and any adventure is good enough for me!"

Movies/Music/Books

"Braveheart is the best movie ever. Hands down. End of story. I love pretty much everything on the Discovery Channel and am totally hooked on "The Deadliest Catch". I love reading anything by Sir Walter Scott and I love Scottish and Irish pop and punk music like Snow Patrol, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphies, and the Coors. And I might have an Enya CD or you. You know- for chill time."

Anything else?

"I can do a great Sean Connery impression and make a mean Shepherd's pie!"

We need knitters (again)!

Hey there fiber crafters! We are doing another group project and need a couple knitters or crocheters to help us out making flowers! If you are interested, please e-mail me at paige@alpacawithatwist.com. Please include your address, what sort of time commitment you'd like to work with, and a couple pictures of your recent work. If you are on Ravelry and would like to include your username so we can see your creations, that works too!

Pictures I Thought I'd Share

The horses and jockeys at Thoroughbred Park in Lexington, KY were "tagged" with a little bit of knitting this spring. Pretty cool to see. Only thing to make it better would have been yarn from Alpaca With A Twist.

The cats here in the warehouse are always good for a few laughs. Have you ever seen a two headed cat? Also Jacks really wants our friends at Lantern Moon to come up with a cat bag. He and Crunch both like my bag even when it is full of my stuff.

Raspberry Gelato

I adore summer knitting. Yes, the big bulky sweaters of winter are a wonderful thing, but I love sitting on the back porch with a glass of wine and a light little project with a fun frilly pattern as I watch the sun set. I love little lacy pieces and embroidery projects while I catch a few rays, but for the most part summer is for socks.

Which is why we're introducing a new limited-edition color of sock yarn that we are currently dyeing in the warehouse. Would you please put your needles together for Raspberry Gelato Socrates?

Raspberry Gelato is our hand-dyed homage to flip flops, ice cream, and summer berries. Knit some summer with us- this yarn won't last forever!

* for those unfamiliar, Socrates is a blend of Baby Alpaca (30%) Merino (30%) Bamboo (20%) and Nylon (20%). It is 100g and 400 yards.

Got 'em!

Thank you to all of the wonderful fiber crafters that emailed me wanting to help out with our projects for TNNA! We've got all the knitters we need but will keep your e-mails for future projects!

Thank you so much for your interest- stay tuned for project pictures!

We need knitters!

Hey there readers! Do you love alpaca? Do you love knitting? Do you like money? How would you like to get paid to knit squares for us? We will be showcasing some of our wonderful colors of Baby Twist at TNNA in June, but we don't have time to knit all that we want to! So I'm coming up with my dream-team of knitters- I need 5 to 6 people to help make squares (only one or two each- and they're not that big)

We supply the yarn. We supply the pattern. We provide a pre-paid envelope to return your squares. Please e-mail me at paige@alpacawithatwist.com if you're interested in making a little money for some knitting!

***If you're on Ravelry, please include your username. If you aren't, it would be really nice to see pictures of something you've made so an appropriate pattern can be assigned!

Look! More colors!

We've had a busy couple weeks here at Alpaca With A Twist and I thought I'd take a few minutes to show you something new and exciting! Last year we introduced Touchdown, a wool/alpaca/bamboo blend in blue and white that we were selling to make Superbowl Scarves for the Indianapolis Superbowl next year. We've had lots of people say some really nice things about our Superbowl yarn so we've decided to add more colors to the lineup and make it a first string yarn (there I go trying to go all sporty with you- sorry about that!).

So here's a sneak peak of some of the colors that will be available this summer! (Aren't they pretty? I can see a few hats in my team colors coming up for this fall!)