My favorite Yarn Pusher and a New Year’s Eve Giveaway!!!
Welcome peeps!! I am very excited about the new blog and I want to Thank you for your feedback. Today I would like to introduce our first installment of Yarn Pushers with my favorite local fiber connection - Carole Foster of Foster Sheep Farm. Carole and her husband Tom have a flock of Romney and Wensleydale sheep that produce some gorgeous fiber!! The shop is a renovated farmhouse that is very warm and welcoming. We have quite the turn out at our weekly Thursday evening knit nights and the second Saturday of each month the Adirondack Spinners Guild meets at the shop. There’s always something happening on the farm and January will be no different. Shearing Day Open house is scheduled for January 8th and the following Saturday we will celebrate Rock Day with the spinners guild. Carole currently carries her own Foster Sheep Farm fiber and yarns as well as Berrocco, Lang, Noro Kureyon & Silk Garden, Ella Rae fingering & worsted. Kromski spinning wheels and looms are available and Carole also has yarn and fiber from other local fiber artists featured in the shop. I have posted some photos of the shop and I hope you will get a bit of the same warm & cozy feel from the photos that the shop gives off when you walk through the door. I encourage you if you get the chance make the trip and stop by I promise you won’t regret it and if you are not within driving distance give the shop a call anyway Carole is always more than willing to help.
Contact The Yarn Shop at Foster SheepFfarm, 460 West River Road, Schuylerville, NY 12871; 518-338-6679; fostersheepfarm@gmail.com or on the web at www.fostersheepfarm.com.
Happy New Year!! and just because it’s a new year and I have a new blog I thought it would be fun to have a giveaway. I also posted some information about NaKniMitMo -(January is knit mitten month) in my last post and in honor of that Carole generously volunteered to donate the prize for our New years give away. Oh I am sooo jealous!! The winner will receive one skein of Ella Rae worsted and their choice of an in shop Ravelry pattern for mittens!!! Yeah!! Seriously I have seen the Ella Rae in person if you haven’t and it is seriously DROOL worthy!! So the rules are you must leave me a comment on this post between now and midnight tonight!! The winner will be determined by random number generator. One entry per person please!!
