New! Fresh From the Farm Club!

For the very first time, The Unique Sheep is offering our handdyed colors on a beautiful, one of a kind yarn from a small local farm. Find out more on our website!

Mini Skein Club

Are you knitting the BeeKeeper's Quilt or the Mitred Square Sock Blanket? Do you like to do mismatched socks or stripes of different colors? Scrap-yarn projects are so much fun and a great way to use up stash, but what if your stash isn't big enough? Or maybe you just don't have all the colors you need. If you need small amounts of lots of different colors on sock weight yarn, this is the club for you!

Click HERE for more information

Retreat 2012

Mark your calendars- the annual Unique Sheep Retreat will be August 24-26, 2012. We'll be at Hawkesdene House in western North Carolina again. Find out more here and email me at laura@theuniquesheep.com to reserve your spot.

Movember

I love a man with a bit of facial hair. Even more, I love a healthy man. Since the Unique Sheep is run by women we can't join the Movember movement as true participants -- no one wants to see us try to grow a mustache--but we've thrown in our support with the Balls for Balls colorway. One of our "colors for a cause" 50% of sales of this colorway are donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Live Strong through Movember.

Halloween Contest Results!

Thank you for everyone who submitted photos to the Halloween Contest!



We used a random number generator to determine the winners. And the winners are....

Vicki (with the handsome little pirate) and Brandon, i.e. the Green Man! Congratulations!

Halloween Contest

Tomorrow is the big day but since Halloween is on a Monday this year many of us celebrated early in order to get our partying in during the weekend. Chris and I (Laura) had a party at our house on Saturday with some of Chris's coworkers. Living out in the country we don't get any trick or treaters, so Halloween parties are our only excuse to dress up. I was an 18th century zombie and Chris went as Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation.

If you celebrated already I hope you remembered to take photos. If not, don't forget your camera when you dress up tomorrow! We've already received several great submissions which we have posted on Flickr. Remember, send your submissions to laura@theuniquesheep.com

BOO!

I love Halloween, and not just because of all the sweet treats. I love the costumes. If I could, I would wear costumes throughout the year but since that would likely end with padded walls I have to wait till that one night a year when costumes are celebrated. I'll be going as a 18th Century Zombie. I found this great dress at a local theatre's sale, it was rather worn with some of the lace coming off and a ripped seam or two so I got it for a steal. Then I added a bit more grim by splashing it with black tea and dragging the hem in some dirt. The look is finished off with zombie makeup. I just have to decide if I want to wear a poufy white wig or if I'll be able to tease my hair into something resembling a Marie Antoinette style do. I'll make sure to take some photos at Saturday's Halloween Party so you can see how it turns out.

Aside from the fun of dressing up yourself, there is also the fun of seeing all of your friends dressed up for the holiday. We'd like to see YOUR costumes and to motivate you we are offering up a prize or two. Keep reading for contest rules and details.

Contest Rules

1. Submit a photo of you, your spouse, child or pet dressed up for Halloween by emailing the photo to laura@theuniquesheep.com no later than November 3rd.

2. Photo does not have to be from this year.

3. By sending us your photo you give us permission to post them on Flickr and on this blog.

4. You can send multiple photos if you want to, but you'll only get one entry per person.

5. Winners will be selected by random drawing from all entries on November 4th.

PRIZES

We will be giving away skeins of our special HALLOWEEN themed colorways. The exact colors, yarns and number of prizes awarded will be a surprise.