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Ewephoric Spinning Academy

Wild Roving, Tamed
Wild Roving, Tamed

Join Ewephoric Fibers for an informative and fun-filled day of spinning. In the morning portion of the workshop, we will spin wild roving and batts. In the afternoon, we will work on plying to make the best possible yarns. While we are learning about wonderful fibers, we will also be helping a most worthy cause, Peaceful Paths. This non-profit group assists women moving out of abusive situations into a position of self-sufficiency and strength. Ten percent of every workshop fee will go to Peaceful Paths. Feel free to bring a non-perishable food donation for their food pantry. Details after the jump…

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Road Trip: Destin-y Bound

We are very excited about going to the January Spin-In in Destin, Florida.  This small gathering is such a wonderfully relaxing venue that we sign up for it as soon as possible!  We will have lots of luxurious and luxury fibers, BFL, BFL with silk, Tussah and Bombyx silk roving, cashmere, guanaco and some special blends.

Hope to see you there!

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Dyeing Like Crazy

Right now Ginger and I are dyeing like crazy getting ready for SAFF in North Carolina. We can hardly wait. Hope to see some of you there! Stop in and say hi, and take a peek at our no longer top-secret fiber club we are debuting (which will be up on the website shortly).

Cheers,
Jane.

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Ewephoric Fibers Road Show

Ginger in the Ewephoric Fibers Booth
Ginger in the Ewephoric Fibers Booth

Join Ewephoric Fibers (www.ewephoricfibers.com) at the Florida Fiber In (www.floridafiberin.org) inOrlando,September 16-18, 2011. Attendance is free, although a donation at the door will help to defray costs. Come on in, even if you have not pre-registered!

We will be launching a bunch of new products you won’t want to miss:

  • Dreamtime Roving BFL (80%)/ Silk (20%): the softness of BFL combined with the sheen of silk becomes a dream sliding through your fingers. You will LOVE the yarn from this exquisite roving!
  • Parfait Batts: Luscious custom carded batts in layers of analogous colors that spin up into a softly heathered yarn.
  • Stripey Batts: Four stripes of analogous or complementary colors that easily spins into a self-striping yarn.

For our batts, we use the finest Shetland wool from Stonehaven Farm in Oregon (www.stonehavenfarm.com) and Alpaca from WoodsEdge Farm in New Jersey (www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.com) and add in just the right amount of silk or bamboo to give it a luscious hand.

In other news…
Since Gotland sheep are being showcased at the NJ Sheep and Wool Festival (www.njsheep.org/festival/index.html) this year, we thought it would be fitting to introduce…

  • Special Edition GotlandBatts: Stansborough Grey Gotland fleece from New Zealandwas used for the elfin cloaks filmed in Lord of the Rings. Ewephoric Fibers and WoodsEdge Farm have joined up to produce a blend of lovely grey Gotland and super-silky WoodsEdge Suri Alpaca. These batts spin up into a beautiful yarn with a soft sheen and an elegant drape.

 

 

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Going to the Spin In?

Ginger Spins
Our Booth at the 2010 Gainesville Local Art Market

January 26 – 29, 2011.

Destin, here we come! We are teaming up with Hanks Yarn and Fiber (WEB, BLOG) and traveling to Destin, Florida, for the January Spin In (RAVELY, YAHOO GROUP). We’re packing the van full of fibery goodness on Wednesday morning and leaving bright and early. Shoot one of us an email at <www (at) ewephoricfibers (dot) com> if you are looking for something in particular, and, if we have it, we’ll bring it.)

We hope to see you there!

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There Will Be Yarn

Boxed Up and Ready to Go!

Yes, that’s right. Ewephoric Fiber Sock Yarn. Kettle dyed in all my favorite colors (except for the pink, which I dyed because my goddaughter probably wouldn’t speak to me if I didn’t dye any pink yarn). The box is going to the Florida Fiber In tomorrow (Friday), and what comes back is going up on the website. IF you can’t live without a color, shoot me an email (jane (at) ewephoricfibers (dot) com) and I’ll set one aside for you.

100% Superwash Merino, +450 yards, 100 grams.

Colors:
indigo – dark blue
collard – dark green
fern – bright olive
endive – chartreuse
truffle –  dark red brown
eggplant – dark purple
wisteria – light purple
cassava – khaki
cranberry – dark red
persimmon – coral
hibiscus – pink
oyster – grey

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Award-Winning Fibers!

Jane's Ewephoric Fiber entry in the swatch division took Best In Show.

That’s right! I entered Ewephoric Fibers in the Skein Competition at the Garden State Wool and Fiber Festival and it received Best In Show. Yes, we have some of that exact same fiber left. You can purchase it online (here) or you can visit the Hanks booth at the Florida Fiber In this weekend in Orlando and pick it up there. So exciting!

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Join us at WoodsEdge!

WoodsEdge Farm Alpacas
Photo from our visit to WoodsEdge Wools Farm last year.

From the WoodsEdge Newsletter (you can read the entire newsletter here, or visit the WoodsEdge website):

Knit & Spin with the Experts
Sunday, August 8
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
[WoodsEdge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne Station Road, Stockton, NJ]

Fellow fiber aficionados, come and share your love of textiles at the Knit & Spin with the Experts. Bring your current knitting, crocheting, felting or spinning project and learn tips from Ginger, Jane & Linda who have a combined textile background of over 100 years!! Ravelry fans and groups bring your lunch and stay for the day. Refreshments will be served. We’ll have lots of new yarns and spinning fibers to inspire you for the upcoming fall months! RSVP appreciated.

That’s right! Ginger and I are the “experts”, along with Linda Berry Walker, our wonderful host. We aren’t exactly sure what tips we will be sharing, so bring your questions and your projects and we will see you there.