tiistai 29. joulukuuta 2009

Holiday Laziness

Sorry for the long break between the posts! I have to admit, I have been very lazy around the holiday season.

Here is something new, I made this set for my niece couple weeks ago and it looks great on her! All matches :) she was very happy with it and that of course made me feel super good!




I also listed a set for kids to the Etsy shop, that one doesn't come with the gloves but it could if you wanted to!




My toughest customer by far is my daughter Scarlett. She has become quite picky about what she want's to wear. And nothing I make seems to be very popular! I have made her several hats butshe always prefers store-bought stuff! Finally I found out the trick... a deer! She loves to watch Bambi - the original one with good music - so I decided to try out the deer figure. Jackpot :D she loves her new hat and gloves. They are super warm also, hat is 100% bulky wool and gloves are double-gloves made of alpaca.










These were a little more work than my products in my store but I might do few of them for sale later on.

tiistai 8. joulukuuta 2009

Lace & Mohair




Latest new hats have been lace hats made of mohair mix. My mom sent me a load of this yarn from Finland and it makes beautiful slouchy hats! I have few more colors coming ;) Had to start with the turquoise, it was so beautiful!



keskiviikko 2. joulukuuta 2009

Update


Sorry for the long break! Thanksgiving ended up being a really busy weekend :)

I've still been working on all the orders my family gave me while trying to come up with few new hats for the store too! The little one has been quite demanding lately so I have to use every minute I have after she is asleep at night ;)

Thanksgiving sale went nicely and I got couple orders. Cowls seemed to be the item for couple days. I'm currently working on finding a new yarn for more cowls and getting an order in for that.

keskiviikko 25. marraskuuta 2009

And the winner is...



Comment number 9, Nicole :)




Winner was chosen with help of random.org

I will be emailing you Nicole to get your address for sending the hat :)

Thanks for all you guys for becoming followers and visiting my blog!

tiistai 24. marraskuuta 2009

Holiday Sale

Thanksgiving is just couple days away so it's about time to announce the holiday sale!

All items in my shop will be 15% OFF
Starting Thanksgiving Day all the way through Cyber Monday
(11/26/09 12:00am EST - 11/30/09 11:59pm EST).


Items purchased during the sale are all shipped out by Wednesday December 2nd 2009.

DISCOUNT IS APPLIED BY PAYPAL REFUND AFTER PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.

Have a great Thanksgiving!



sunnuntai 22. marraskuuta 2009

The Give-Away

Don't for get the give-away! Just post a comment down there telling me what is your favorite of my items and you are in :)

lauantai 21. marraskuuta 2009

New Designs

I have added couple more designs to my shop this week. One has little berries on it, black berries or cloudberries ;) My daughter keeps feeling them and calls them just "bumps". Here's the berry hat.




Latest design I have is stripes. But not just plain stripes, they come with a cool little stitch. To me this looks just like a little tiny bird's toes :D haha, silly me. Well I named the hat Sparrow's Toes anyways :) I love those little birds.





These stripes I can make in any color you can imagine! So much options with this lovely yarn :) It's 85% wool and 15% mohair. We had family over last night and my niece just fell in love with this hat in white, pink and turquoise. I had just made her the hat with buds and a cowl to go with it in aqua but now she wants this one too :) I got lots orders from them all!

Today I will have a no-knitting-day and we will all go to children's museum. Should be fun :)


torstai 19. marraskuuta 2009

Treasury

I love the combination of Grey and Pink...




GIVE-AWAY!

OK, we have a winner for my give-away. Check the latest post on my blog!

Thanks so much for all you guys! It was nice hearing your favorite things and getting new readers/fans!

Thanks again!



Remember my holiday sale starting tomorrow morning! If you didn't win the hat now, you might find something you like in my store. Holiday prices are good for the rest of the week and Cyber Monday :)
I will be happy to make any custom orders also so don't hesitate to ask!



Here it is, my first give-away :)



And here is what the lucky winner will receive ;) One of my new models, this hat is alpaca mix in. I have the hat made in natural white but in case you would prefer other color that can be done . See the four options below for colors :) This model has a decorative stitch all around and it will fit an adult. If you would rather have one for a child, that can be done also.



Here's how you can enter the give-away, lots of different options! Enter as many ways you want.


1. Become a follower of my blog (or let me know if you are following already!)

2. Become of a fan of my Facebook Fan Page (or let me know if you are a fan already)

3. Visit my Etsy shop, and let me know what is your favorite item in there

4. Tweet about this giveaway and provide a link

5. Blog about this give-away on your blog and provide a link

6. Post on your Facebook about my shop, this give-away or any item (provide a link also)

7. Purchase any item in my shop, something already listed or a custom order - This will count as 5 tickets for the give-away. (Remember to post 5 separate comments for this one)


Remember to leave a comment on this post for each way you enter to make sure they all count :)
And provide your email address also so I can contact you if you are the winner!


You can enter untill

1 pm Mountain Time USA
(That's 22:00 in Finland in case you were wondering)
Wednesday, November 25th 2009


Good luck to you all :)

And here's the colors:


Check out this give-away

Check out this cool give-away Eco Chic Hand Knits has! I love these cute nesting bowls and now you can win a set! AND you get to choose the colors, doesn't get better than that :)




keskiviikko 18. marraskuuta 2009

Blog blog blog

Well here starts the blog! Wild Cloudberry is my first and only Etsy shop :) I have been buying and browsing Etsy for few years now and one night, about a month ago, I decided to set up my own shop! I had just come up with a really cute knit hat .. I was planning on knitting just one hat for my daughter but I thought this hat was cute enough to be spread around ;) I'm really picky about what I like knitting wise but this model I really fell in love with. I remembered seeing someone wearing a cute hat with leaves and started trying to knit one. It took a while to get it perfect!


I have made that of several different yarns and you can find them all on my shop. My favorite is the wool/mohair which is in this picture also. It's so warm! This yarn compliments the design really nicely.

So that's where it started :) I have been working on getting more hats done, also added couple cowls/neck warmers to my shop. I have vouple more models I'm working on for neck warmers so more about those later on!

I will try and update the blog couple times a week to tell about new items and other hopefully interesting things!