I'm Your Huckleberry Club now open

After a brief hiatus due to my summer schedule, the I'm Your Huckleberry Club is open again! When designing it, I thought about what I'd personally like in a club, and at the top of the list was flexibility. So you'll find lots of choices--which colorway you want, what kind of yarn or fiber you want, and how you want to pay for it--in this club. It's your yarn, your way.

Here are the details for the club:

• Each shipment will have two colorway options, a variegated and a semi-solid (which will usually coordinate with the variegated option).

• Shipment will be one skein of yarn or braid of fiber of either colorway, plus the option to choose additional skeins of either colorway.
  
  
• You can choose from 3-6 base yarns or 2-4 base fibers, which will vary with each installment. For simplicity, the clubs are listed below as either yarn or fiber, but you can switch back and forth each month, and I will adjust your credit balance/amount owed accordingly.
  
  
• No patterns or other non-fiber items. I’d rather keep prices lower instead of including swag that people might not want.
  
  
• Shipments will be every other month, with an initial subscription period of 6 months. This comes to a total of 3 skeins/braids over six months.
  
  
• Billing can either be per individual installment, or a total upfront for a discount. Additional skeins will be billed separately if you choose the upfront option.

The yarn club selections will generally be new colorways, although I may offer existing colorways for the semi-solid option.

The first shipment will be in late August 2012.

Even More Options
If you would like any of the following options, you may select them below.

1. Pay for your six-month membership all at once, for a discount of approximately 10% (rounded to the nearest dollar).
2. Upgrade to a luxury base (an additional $5 per month). For fiber, there is also an ultra-luxe option (an additional $10/month). Luxury options will include wool/cashmere and wool/silk blends; ultra-luxe includes either a higher percentage of silk or more exotic fibers such as camel and yak. You can also choose to upgrade/downgrade your base at the time that colorway selections are sent out.
3. Ship to a destination other than the U.S. or Canada.

If you wish to purchase more than one skein or braid per shipment, you will have that option after seeing the colorways for that shipment. You'll be billed separately at a later time.

Signups are open through the night of Monday, August 6, or until the maximum number of club members has been reached, whichever comes first. PLEASE NOTE: If you live in Washington state and choose to pay in installments, I will need to manually alter your subscription to include sales tax for all three installments, because PayPal doesn't automatically add sales tax to subscription payments.

For the first time, I will be selling the club memberships on my blog, so let's see if I can get all these buttons right. Flexibility means a LOT of buttons--sorry about that!

EDIT: Signups are now closed. Welcome to all the new members!

Yarn Club

Yarn club, payment in full

standard base, US shipping: $73.00 USD standard base, Canadian shipping: $77.00 USD standard base, international shipping: $86.00 USD luxury base, US shipping: $86.00 USD luxury base, Canadian shipping: $90.00 USD luxury base, international shipping: $100.00 USD

Yarn club, standard base, US shipping, 3 installments of $27

 

Yarn club, standard base, Canadian shipping, 3 installments of $28.25

 

Yarn club, standard base, international shipping, 3 installments of $31.50

 

Yarn club, luxury base, US shipping, 3 installments of $32

 

Yarn club, luxury base, Canadian shipping, 3 installments of $33.25

 

Yarn club, luxury base, international shipping, 3 installments of $36.50

 

Fiber Club

Fiber club, payment in full

standard base, US shipping: $57.00 USD standard base, Canadian shipping: $60.00 USD standard base, international shipping: $70.00 USD luxury base, US shipping: $70.00 USD luxury base, Canadian shipping: $74.00 USD luxury base, international shipping: $84.00 USD ultra-luxe base, US shipping: $84.00 USD ultra-luxe base, Canadian shipping: $87.00 USD ultra-luxe base, international shipping: $97.00 USD

 

Fiber club, standard base, US shipping, 3 installments of $21

 

Fiber club, standard base, Canadian shipping, 3 installments of $22.25

 

Fiber club, standard base, international shipping, 3 installments of $25.50

 

Fiber club, luxury base, US shipping, 3 installments of $26

 

Fiber club, luxury base, Canadian shipping, 3 installments of $27.25

Fiber club, luxury base, international shipping, 3 installments of $30.50

Fiber club, ultra-luxe base, US shipping, 3 installments of $31

Fiber club, ultra-luxe base, Canadian shipping, 3 installments of $32.25

Fiber club, ultra-luxe base, international shipping, 3 installments of $35.50

I'm Your Huckleberry Yarn Club

Yarn club is starting up again this month! Eight slots will open up at noon ET this Friday.

http://hyenacart.com/prod_details.php?id=89259&vid=465

This club is designed to be super flexible. You get two colorway options and a variety of base yarns to choose from. Get just one skein or as many as you want. This is an every other month club, so you won’t be bombarded with yarn constantly. I’m considering doing another club on alternate months, for those of you who *do* want to be bombarded monthly.

During this round of subscriptions, yarn will ship in August, October, and December. I can promise an apple-themed colorway for one of them, probably October. :)

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

what I've been up to

My family and I spent Christmas week taking turns throwing up, far from home. First my parents got it, then my kiddo, then me, and then my sister. My husband got the Blitzkrieg bug the night before we flew home. Good times.

But now I'm back, and busy dyeing again. This month I'm kicking off my first yarn club, with these two selections. They're called Heartfelt and Garnet. More about their origins after my club members get their dyer's notes.





I've got just one knitting resolution this year, and that's to finish up one unfinished project each month. Or throw it away, or whatever. I've got two giant knitting bags and a few boxes filled with miscellaneous partial projects, and I can't stand it anymore. I'm sure my husband passed that point long ago.

No specific 2010 goals yet. I actually met my 2009 goals well before the end of the year (go me!) so I've been pondering where to go next for a while. I'm working on my next wholesale order for the Loopy Ewe, so I should have a fair amount of time contemplating my objectives for the next 12 months.

Yarn club coming December 10!

Just got through finalizing my listing for yarn club slots, which go live at noon Eastern Time this Thursday. I think I got it set up correctly, but it's a little complicated due to all of the options, so time will tell. I can always manually invoice people if it doesn't work out, but of course ideally I didn't botch it.

When designing the club, I thought about what I'd like in a club, and at the top of the list was flexibility, with lots of options that fit the way I knit (and enhance my stash). So there are lots of choices--which colorway you want, what kind of yarn you want, and how you want to pay for it--in the club.

* Each shipment will have two colorway options, a variegated and a coordinating semi-solid.

* Shipment will be one skein of yarn of either colorway, plus the option to choose additional skeins of either colorway.

* You can choose from 3-6 base yarn options, which will vary with each installment. I expect that I’ll use the club to do some testing of new base yarns, which is why the options will change frequently. My two favorite yarns, Canadian Blue-Faced Leicester (aran weight) and Willow sock (Blue-Faced Leicester/nylon) will always be options.

* No patterns, and just one goodie. (The first package will have chocolate.) I’d rather keep prices lower by not including a bunch of swag that people might not want.

* Shipments will be every other month, with an initial subscription period of 6 months (a total of three shipments).

* Billing can either be per individual installment, or a total upfront for a discount. Additional skeins will be billed separately if you choose the upfront option.

* Initial signup will be limited to eight spots. I'm keeping it small, at least at first, to ensure prompt delivery and top quality.

Also, I'm stocking as the featured fiber artist with Their Own Knitted World on Thursday. Turns out that I had a big smudge on my camera lens, which I only discovered when I realized all my photos were a little blurry in the middle. Sigh. I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.