Kentucky Sheep & Fiber Festival

Come check out our booth at the Kentucky Sheep & Fiber Festival this weekend in Lexington, KY. We'll be in the "big top" tent with a booth full of Gradiance sets! It looks like it should be a beautiful, spring weekend here in Kentucky and we hope to see you there!

New Knitty pattern "Now in a Minute" by Brenda Dayne

The new Knitty "Surprise!" patterns are up and, guess what? One of them uses Unique Sheep yarn! We were so honored when Brenda Dayne asked us to use our yarn and the shawl she designed for it, "Now in a Minute" is a perfect match for our Gradiance collection. It is elegant and feminine without being too overtly lacey, and since most of it is in a simple stockinette stitch pattern its a great option for chatty Knit Nights, travel knitting or sitting-on-the-back-porch-sipping-a-lemonade-and-soaking-in-the-sun-knitting.

This pattern requires 150g of fingering weight yarn (Brenda uses Luxe) in any of our Gradiance colorways. Brenda collaborated with Kelly to create the new colorway "Enfys" for this pattern.

p.s. if the link to the pattern doesn't open immediately, try again later. The Knitty website has a tendency to get a bit overwhelmed by the initial burst of people visiting the site when they announce new patterns!

New Website/Old Coupons

I haven't finished transferring all of the old coupon codes to the new website/shopping cart which means that if you have a coupon code, our new website might not accept it. But do not worry--- your coupon is still good! Just email me at laura@theuniquesheep.com and let me know you are ready to use the coupon and I'll re-issue it using the new software.

New Website!

The new website is live! We have been working on this for months and are so excited to be able to finally unveil it! We tried to keep the ordering process very similar to the old website to make the transition easier. We added several new features which we think you will enjoy:

• PDF purchases will now be sent immediately and automatically
• You shopping cart summary is always visible in the green column at the right to make it easier for you to update your cart
• You can create an account and log in to check on the status of your order and review past orders. 

The biggest improvement has been in how our Search bar functions. The search box is always present at the top of the green column. We have added a lot of new photos to the site and the search bar is the best way to explore them. To see photographs of a certain colorway on several different base yarns and even examples of it knit up, simply type in the colorway name in the search bar. Give it a try yourself- for example, search for "silverlode" to see eight different photos of this colorway on different yarn bases and 4 photos of it knit up. We will be adding more and more photos to the site in the future to give you more examples of our colors on different bases, as different sized sets,  and knit up into projects.

Have some fun and do a bit of exploring. If you find any broken links or mistakes please let us know! Our goal is to make our website as easy to use and helpful as possible so please let us know if you have trouble with any part of it!

Most of the credit for this project goes to Leanne Mitton, our very patient and always helpful web designer. 

Website Changes

We will be revealing the new website this weekend (!!!) which means that there may be a brief period of time when the website is unavailable while we switch things over. Thank you for your patience while we make this change. We think you'll like the new website. Once its uploaded I'll post again telling you all about the new features!

Happy New Year

Wow- Laura and I just celebrated 5 years together as "Your Unique Sheep dyers"! I may sound like a broken record at the beginning of each New Year, but I am still so happy to be partners with such an amazingly talented, intelligent and beautiful person. I feel like I have to say it publicly, at least once a year.

We are also very lucky to be able to work with great designers. Every time a designer decides to use our yarn in one of their projects it gives me a happy shiver. Somehow they always make our yarn look better in a finished object than it does just laying in the skeins. So thanks to Janine, Laurel, Merike, Julia, Susan and many others who have joined our design flock.

We are always happy to hear from people who want to carry our yarn in their online and/or bricks and mortar retail shops. If you do not see your LYS on this page, then tell them about Unique Sheep. If they already carry our yarns, but are not listed, let us know and we will update our site right away. A special Thank You to Ellen at Earthfaire, who has partnered with us for almost all of our Mystery KAL's and provided beautiful beads to go with our yarn and patterns. Ellen also carries a large selection of Signature Colorways, only available through Earthfaire.

The biggest Thank You to all of our customers. Take a look on the Ravelry pages to see many of the projects you have all stitched using Unique Sheep yarns. Every time I visit that page I am delighted to know that you trusted us enough to buy our yarns and stitch them up into finished garments. We hope you enjoy using our yarns as much as we love dyeing them for you:)

May 2013 bring all of your Peace, Joy and lots of Love.
 

Winter Vacation

Happy Holidays! We will be taking next week off to spend time with friends and family. You can place orders like usual on the website and we'll be checking our email in case you have any questions but we won't be shipping orders until after the new year. We hope that you are able to take time off to celebrate the holidays as well!