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Jackie E-S is the owner of HeartStrings FiberArts, a showcase for her growing roster of original pattern designs. As a certified master knitter and teacher, Jackie continues to share her love of knitting and knowledge through design and publication of skill-building pattern instructions, and conducting workshops, programs and demonstrations. Her interest in the fiber arts extends beyond knitting and spinning to include weaving, dyeing and all needle arts. She also enjoys contract bridge and music.
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Winner of the Schaefer Yarn … and a special coupon offer

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I had good news to start off the weekend for the lucky winner of the random drawing for the Schaefer yarn that I blogged about last Saturday here. I’ve emailed Rose and already heard back from her to claim the prize. I’m just waiting for the mail pickup and Rose’s prize is on the way to her!

I hope you had as much fun with this as I did. I loved reading your ideas and suggestions about which HeartStrings pattern you like best that could be made in this yarn. It was really amazing all the variety of answers. If you posted early in the week and did not see the comments later in the week, take a browse through for additional ideas that you might not yourself have first considered.

As a thank you to everyone, originally I was planning to do a special coupon offer for the pattern mentioned in the winner’s comment entry. Actually, Rose included the names of 2 patterns in her comment –

“Such a lovely yarn. I think it would make a perfect Lace Leaves Scarf. The colors remind me so much of taffy though that I might have to make my first ever socks with your Pulled Salt Water Taffy Socks.”

Rather than using the first named pattern for the special coupon offer, I am feeling generous this lovely Saturday morning with the first hint of cool weather for our New Orleans area, and I am going to do the offer for either (or both) of those patterns, or others of your choice since there were so many good suggestions from everybody!

Here’s the deal:

Use Coupon Code HSFANOCT in the Ravelry Store for HeartStrings patterns at
http://www.ravelry.com/stores/jackie-erickson-schweitzer-designs

and get 10% off when you purchase two or more HeartStrings patterns at the same time. You can use the coupon as many times as you want. Offer expires October 31, 2011. But don’t wait ’til then and forget.

And it’s fine to share this coupon with your friends on Ravelry, on Facebook, Tweet it, share it with your knitting groups, whatever.

I appreciate you introducing your friends to HeartStrings and spreading the word.

Thank you for being a fan of HeartStrings.
Happy knitting! Jackie E-S / HeartStrings FiberArts

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childhood memorabilia for a fiber-y future

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Look what was in a box of my memoribilia I recently came across. Not sure how old I would have been when I made this. And frankly, I don’t even remember it, lol. It looks like it is recycled cotton balls from pill jars glued onto a cardboard cutout. (weird — cotton balls for a wool sheep?) Just goes to show I’ve been a sheepy lover since a young age even though didn’t know much about fiber in those days.

A Cotton Sheep?

Do you have childhood memorabilia that are harbingers of your passion for things fiber-y and crafty?

 

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Conveniently browse the complete catalog of HeartStrings patterns at your leisure

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Fall is in the air and that means you are probably gearing up for cooler weather and the holiday knitting season. I hope you’ll take this opportunity to look again at all the HeartStrings patterns that are available. Remember that it is easy to download a catalog of cover page thumbnails to browse at your leisure and mark up for your favs and wish list.
4-up PDF Catalog

There are also 3 new recently released patterns to entice you. These new patterns will be added to the PDF Catalog at my next revision in January. Meantime, you can just slip this flyer in with the rest of your HeartStrings catalog, and that will bring you up-to-date.  I can’t wait to see what you think.
Download the pdf version here –> New for Fall 2011 catalog flyer

New HeartStrings patterns for Fall 2011
New for Fall 2011 (click to enlarge on-screen view)

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HeartStrings 200th Milestone at Patternfish

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Let’s celebrate along with Patternfish and HeartStrings. The newest pattern by HeartStrings has been posted on Patternfish, making that the 200th publication.

The pattern is titled V-Start Neck Kerchief Scarf; details can be seen here along with all 199 other HeartStrings publications offered at Patternfish.

http://www.patternfish.com/pub/heartstrings_fiberarts

Thank you Patternfish!

V-Start Lace Neck Kerchief

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email glitch — so sorry

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I apologize to anyone here who got a slew of emails from my blog this afternoon. Here is what happened — I had an incorrect setting on my blog but it is ok now.

To correct this, I removed all email notifications on the blog. If anyone does actually want to get emails of blog comments made by other people, just check the box that says “Check this box to receive new comment notification emails for this topic” when you post your next comment for that topic. Of course, you can always just come here to the blog and look, too (which I hope you will do often).

I hope I have not caused too much anguish and that you can forgive me. Computers! — gotta love them — gotta hate them. Back to our knitting and fun, ok?

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