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New Sponsor- Wooly Wonka Fibers and Giveaway.

Olof
I am so happy to introduce you a new sponsor, Wooly Wonka Fibers owned by Anne Podlesak. Look at some of her amazing colors and products.

Anne was nice enough to answer some of my questions about her and her store.

What is Wooly Wonka Fibers?   

My online indie store.  I carry several different weights of yarn bases from laceweight up through worsted/Aran weight.   I also carry hand-dyed and limited-edition blended rovings for handspinners, as well as yarn packs for various projects. I’ve also got a designer store for my knitting patterns under the Wooly Wonka label available as downloads from Ravelry here.

Who is the mastermind behind the colorways?   

Me and myself!

What are some of your other hobbies? 

I don’t really have a lot that I do outside of fiber-y things, although I read quite a bit and listen to a lot of music.  I used to horseback ride competitively, but after my last older horse passed away last year, I decided I didn’t want to learn to bounce again to train a new one.  🙂

A day in the life of Anne, What would it look like?   

I’m an early bird.  I’m usually up by 5:15.  I have a day job, but I telecommute for it, so I work usually 5:30 to 1:30 at my computer.  I’ll then hit the treadmill for an hour’s run.  After that and a shower, I head to the dye room for several hours most days to dye and skein yarn.  After dinner, I usually sit and knit until I start falling asleep.

If you had your dream job, what would it be?  

My dyeing and knitwear design would be it!

What can we look forward to seeing from Wooly Wonka Fibers in the near future? You jumping on the bright color bandwagon?

 In terms of dye colors, I do carry a few eye-searing brights (the apple green Thornapple and the hot pink Flamingo), but I tend to like blended/grayed/muted colors, so that’s still likely to be the main focus in my dye colors.  I will be offering 2-packs of sock yarns later this spring with one handpainted and one semisolid colorway that coordinate for striped shawl projects, for example, and I’m working on a line of transitional colors that are 4 smaller skeins that blend from one color to another for socks or other smaller projects.  I’ve got a ton of design projects in the works.  I have two patterns coming out in Cooperative Press books sometime this year.  I’m working (feverishly) on three projects for an Interweave special publication that’ll be out this summer, as well as two projects for the Spin-Off magazines this year. In addition, I’m launching a big 3-part design collection that I’ll start photo shoots for in June, with tentative releases in early fall 2013, mid-winter 2014 and late spring 2014.

I was lucky enough to get a skein of Anne’s yarn to play with and OH MY is it dreamy. It is so soft and the color is just so well balanced.  An Aerten Sock yarn with 80% Superwash merino wool, 10% Cashmere, and 10 nylon it is 435 yards in a 100gr skein. Would also love to knit myself a shawl or sweater out of this stuff. You can´t tell while it is in the skein and I couldn’t get a good enough photo of it but the color in this skein of sock yarn dyed in Pewter really reminds me of a nice foggy morning where you know the air is crisp and mittens are needed. There is just such a nice depth to it. It also doesn’t split too easily so the stitches come out nice and even.

The mittens are knit from the fingers up to make sure they are a perfect fit for you. Starting with the thumb and then putting the thumb on scrap yarn while you knit the finger part and then bring the 2 together. I used the magic loop method so that You can try your mitten on as you go so that you know how much longer or shorter you want the cuff or the fingers. If you are use to toe up socks this is just the next step in doing that but to make mittens. Hoping that you will learn this simple method to make mittens for the whole family. In the pattern I am including a fingerless version. Both great to make as gifts and you can get a kick start on holiday knitting early.

This yarn gets 5 stars from me. With it having a nice twist, very workable, beautiful high and low lights and just all around a joy to the fingers.

Even after the mittens I still have plenty left for some mittens for my boys

Anne is also offering one of my readers a skein of her Yarn of the Month which is this sock yarn just like the one I use in my pattern, but in any color you would like from her dye lot, for free! The winner also gets the pattern for my mittens so do 2 other readers that enter and follow the rules.

If mittens are not for you, or you really want to make one of Anne’s sock patterns, Anne has been nice enough to give my readers a discount code for the Fall in Vermont patterns of 10% off and it is 10FIVT. That will include the 2-Horse Hitch Socks that were designed using that sock yarn and will be included in the giveaway this March, any pattern in that collection, or the entire ebook. 

1st place gets Mitten Pattern and the yarn to make it
2nd and 3rd place get the Mitten pattern and can also get the yarn to make it using the 10% discount code. 

Here are the rules. Please follow them or you will not qualify for the giveaway.

You can enter up to 5 times just read how and post a comment for each entry. Don´t forget to leave a way to contact you in the post.
1. Follow my blog and leave in the comment thread how you are following my blog
2. Follow me on twitter. and if you already follow me on twitter then retweet the giveaway
3. Like my Facebook page if you already like my page then share the post about this giveaway
4. Tell me which color you would like of the yarn and which one of Anne´s patterns are your favorite.
5. Tell me what you would name my mittens.

Sign up will be open til Sunday the 10th of March 2013 noon and then I will use Random.org to randomly pick a winner.

Published by Olof

140 thoughts on “New Sponsor- Wooly Wonka Fibers and Giveaway.”

  11. I am following your blog, liked your facebook, and am following you on Twitter. If I win, the yarn might be a surprise for me, it is hard to choose one of these beautiful colours. And your mittens are beautiful. I'd call them after Floris – a landlord and count out of our history.

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  16. I would choose the color Black Dahlia and my favorite pattern is the Lizzie Shawl.

    greyowl60(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  17. I found your blog through your post on Ravelry! I would choose the hydrangea colored yarn and the Macbeth Shawl. I would name your mitten pattern Cobblestone Way.

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  18. I'm following your blog; a color choice would be “Black Dahlia”; when I first saw the mittens I thought of an expressway ramp, so I'd name them “Express” or “Expressway”

    if you need to contact me, please use my ravelry – feelgr8

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  24. Wandered here from Ravelry to see the mittens and then
    1. followed your blog by email;
    2. followed you on Twitter…and Pinterest;
    3. liked you on Facebook;
    4. the colour? Iceberg; the pattern? Kelp Garden Cowl; yeah, I know, arctic and tropical don't exactly go together, but, that's me, lol.
    5. the name? as I said on Ravelry, the first thing I thought of when I scrolled down was that they looked like a barometer. I still think that ~grins~.

    Damia on Ravelry
    kybeau(at)gmail(dot)com

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  26. I'm thinking about Grippens for the mittens (because the seed stitch does help you grab things!) (I'm androgyn141 on ravelry)

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  29. I am following via google friend connect and email subscription. I would love to have bittersweet. My favorite pattern of her's is the Roses Of Avon Shawl.
    I would name your mittens Fog. 🙂
    Bryleighlala on Rav.

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  52. The old Simon & Garfunkle tune started playing in my memory when I looked at your new pattern. “A winter's day..in a deep and dark December” is what I hear from the song “I Am a Rock.” So how about “A Winter's Day” mitts?

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  58. I love the texture in your mittens. The name that comes to my mind is “Pathway Mittens” because the texture reminds me of a gravel path.

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  60. Thank you for this giveaway! 🙂 Your mittens are gorgeous and the yarn sounds delightful!

    My favorite colors are Carnivale and Black Dahlia. My favorite pattern is the Molly Brown Socks pattern.

    Purlescence on Ravelry

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  70. I just signed up to follow your blog by email.
    I like the Molly Brown socks.
    My favorite color yarn is Carnivale'.
    I would name your mittens 'Twisted Stitches'.

    Lee (mamagiff on Ravelry)

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  77. My name for the mitts: Open Door Mittens. I don't know why. The two columns with the seed stitch panel in between makes me think of a door that you open just a crack as you step out into the dark.

    My entry still counts even if my name is silly, right?

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  79. I saw the mittens and immediately thought of the name “Furrows”. It reminds me of getting a garden ready for planting. 🙂

    rwest81 on Ravelry

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  92. I love your mittens!

    I like Bittersweet, Harbor Fog, and even Fig. Hard to choose which I like best right now.

    StaceyKnitsIt ravelry

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  93. Seed Path, Pathways (I just saw a similar posting after typing these first two names), Pebbles, Toasty Pebbles, Gated Path, Pebbled Paths…

    StaceyKnitsIt ravelry

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  94. Just Liked your Facebook page.

    I forgot to mention in my yarn choice post my Favorite Anne pattern is: Kelp Garden Cowl.

    StaceyKnitsIt ravelry

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  107. I really like Brick. Lately I've been attracted to brighter colors like that, and that one is just really appealing to me right now.

    I absolutely love the Molly Brown socks, but as a Whovian, that Whosian scarf is calling my name! I love it!

    ravelry: anastasiamw
    email: fortheknitofit(at)gmail(dot)com

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  113. Beautiful mittens, I've liked and shared. Favorite colour is Fig and I would name them “Happiness in Hand.”

    knit2undo2 on Ravelry

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  114. lovely mitten pattern!

    followed your blog with g-reader, followed you on twitter as @ilbapsi, liked your fb page as britney win!

    i love the bittersweet colorway, and being new to loving socks, her filleybay sock pattern looks gorgeous!
    oh, i'm terrible with names, but that vertical pattern reminds me of the monolith from 2001: a space odyssey.

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  120. My favourite pattern is the Molly Brown Socks and the shade of yarn I like the best is Aropund Midnight
    apple380 on ravelry

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  127. I would call the mittens Pebblebrook. They remind of shallow garden streams with pebbles on the bottom. Why yes, it's almost gardening season again, why do you ask? 😉

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