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!!
Love EllaRae! I just may need to change my mitten pattern if I am the lucky winner!
I just joined the group – I’m addicted to knitting mittens so this should be so much fun! And what a great shop. I’m not so far away and may need to visit.
Oh you are lucky to have such a great farm nearby! It looks lovely!
I’ll play! Thanks for sharing the information. Always looking for great yarn sources!
Lisa
I am nothing if not flexible in my mitten knittin’! EllaRae could fit nicely into a ‘plan’ that is revised over and over and over! And the pics of Foster Sheep Farm are truly warm and inspirational. Happy New Year!
The pictures of the shop are so inviting – wish I lived close enough to visit. It’s also very generous of the Fosters to offer some yarn for a give away. Happy New Year’s to everyone!
Happy New Year!
(and thanks for the chance at such an awesome prize
Thanks for having this GiveAway! I love Ella Rae. Happy New Year to you too!
Joan in MN (joanie1803 on Rav)
Sounds lovely!
Love the look of the new Blog. I love the idea of a giveaway just in time for NaKniMitMo!
Lovely way to start the new year. Love the new blog
Well, I have pledged not to let any new yarn come into my house in 2012…but if I were to win, it would be before midnight, wouldn’t it? So, that would be acceptable! I guess I could live with the guilt.
Love the blog. Shop looks amazing. Kathy G
Love the new blog.. What a great way to start the new year off. A new blog and new mittens.
What a great fun for New Year’s Eve! I love Ella Rae and I love mittens, so this is a perfect giveaway contest for me!
Sounds like I’ve got another place to visit next time I get back to visit upstate NY
I’m sitting here on the couch with the dog and hubby sleeping next to me while waiting for the ball to drop. Can’t wait to start some mittens tomorrow for NatKnitMitMo!
Beautiful color…:)