Holiday Sale in the ArtFire store - and Store closing for the holiday season

I will be closing the Artfire store on November 24th and will reopen some time in January 2015. I will be spending December recovering from surgery and enjoying time with family and friends.

So, if there is something in the store that you've had your eye on, now is the time to snap it up! And, to sweeten the deal, I'm offering a 20% discount off everything in the store if you use coupon code HAPPY HOLIDAY20off!!!

Visit SplitRockRanch's Studio

SAVE 20% Off All Items

Use Coupon Code:

HAPPYHOLIDAY20OFF

during checkout.

Childrens Products

Some of the recently added items are:

Deep Sea Hand Crocheted Cardigan Sweater Vest

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10588923

A Fabulous Fall Fiber Combo

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10589187

Pastel Rainbow Hand Knitted Capelet in uber soft Optim Merino

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10547011

And a matching cowl in the same uber soft Optim Merino yarn

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10547004

How about an Outlander inspired cowl? Hand knitted

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10429858

Or, for spinning, felting or other fiber art, how about some incredibly luxurious fiber?

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/10489515

All sales will help to pay for my upcoming medical bills.

Wishing you all a very happy holiday season!

The Accidental Neckwarmer

If you remember my post last week about the skinny scarf I made for a friend's daughter, I mentioned in that post that I was also making fingerless mitts using the same yarns that I had used in the skinny scarf. While making the first mitt, I made a mistake in reading the pattern and kept adding a set of pattern stitches to each row so each successive row was a bit longer than the row before it. I wasn't paying any attention to it because I was crocheting while I was working on emails and IMing my daughter so I wasn't really focused on my project. When I realized what I had done, I didn't want to frog (rip out) the entire thing because I had used four different yarns in 6 sets of pattern rows and had already crocheted 5 inches of the mitt. When I laid it out on the desk though, I realized that if I added a border around the entire thing and made the bottom of it even longer with a couple of extra rows, I could then crochet a little loop and sew on a button to make a gorgeous little cowl/neckwarmer.

I was so excited when I realized that I had finally found a pattern for making a delicate looking cowl/neckwarmer that is easy to make. I'm going to make another one using a variegated yarn to see how that looks - it will be easier because I won't have all the different yarns to deal with, I can just keep on crocheting so it will work up really fast. Like I always say, there are no mistakes, just art you didn't plan on!