The site is now open and shipping from the USA!

It’s a bit sparse, but we have lots of yarn on it’s way and I will be updating it as it arrives in Maryland.  My email access will be a a day by day basis, but I promise to check in once a week so I ask for your patience in awaiting a response.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, I promise to post pictures and update you all on our travels!

In the mean time I will be spending some time with this

YoYo Cashsport! I have 2 skeins for a wrap that I am knitting as beach wear…just the thought keeps me warm!

Adios! Keep knitting while I am gone

xoxo

Michelle

Thank you to those who donated to help the animals get a new shelter…they are working their hardest to rebuild and it will be a long process, but I’m sure our donations are greatly appreciated.

The YoYo Alyson has kindly offered to donate 2 of her beautiful yarns to our raffle and as my time here is drawing short I have picked winners!

Adriana and Jenna are the lucky winners of a skein of awesome sock yarn from Alyson

and Ruth is the lucky winner of the Pigeonroof studios!

Thank you so much for your donations. I will touch back on the fundraising when I get home…I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happy Holiday!

xoxo

Michelle

The Sweet Sheep would like to welcome The YoYo to the line up!

This yarn is so soft..like cashmere should be and comes in amazing semisolid colours. The content is superwash merino/cashmere/nylon…it’s like your feet’s own Christmas present.

These yarns will be up in the shop for a short period of time so we can ship them to our US home in order to keep you all happy while I am gone…and yes..some of this is coming with me on my trip!

Pattern now available on Ravelry

In the past year there have be a lot of personal rollercoasters of life that I have been on. It has been a difficult year, but there have also been some wonderful times too. 2008 is a year of change for me and those around me. Personally I need a break and professionally I have been working for some time to come up with an idea that will improve the shop for our wonderful customers…and by a stroke of luck both of these things are happening at the same time.

During the months of January and February I will be traveling…just getting in our RV and heading south with no real plan…just living day to day. The shop will be taken care of by a friend in the US. We have been working on this for quite some time and I am happy to say it is finally happening.

For the next few months all of the Sweet Sheep products will be shipping from Maryland. I have been taking things out of the Canadian shop and shipping them to Maryland and we will be making the transition over Christmas…this means a few things.

First, not all of our regular line will be avail in Jan/Feb. I have tried to split things up and it will be a bit of a mish mash for a while until I am able to even things out.

Second, the Canadian shop will only be closed for a few months…you will still be able to shop at The Sweet Sheep, it will just be shipping from Maryland and will not have our full line available.

I will have email access at least once a week so I will ask you to please be patient with me for email responses.

Here is the exciting part!

When I return in March we will then be re opening the Canadian shop as well as keeping the US shop running! You will be able to purchase from The Sweet Sheep in your home currency and shipping will be more affordable for our US customers and much faster. This has been something I have been wanting to do for a very long time. Canada post keeps raising our rates and I really feel that this is a better option.

My long term plan is to have both shops running parallel stock, but as I’m sure  you understand it will take quite a while to even things out and I will appreciate your patience as I do this. Most of this will not be happening until we are into March, so we have some time.

In the mean time, I will be shipping from the Canadian location until Christmas, at that point we will be switching the shop over to our US location. Everything will look pretty much the same except the available stock and shipping rates, for the time being the currency will remain Canadian so that our Canuck customers do not pay any more for the exchange rate and our US customers get their bonus with the exchange rate too!

I will keep you updated as things change. I can honestly say I will be glad to close the lid on 2008 and am really looking forward to 2009 and the upcoming trip and wedding.

Thank you all for being such wonderful customers and friends, I am truly amazed at how many friends I have been blessed to meet through the shop.

I will absolutely be blogging my wonderful adventures in the new year!

I have been doing A LOT of secret knitting for Christmas. In the past I was safe…but my family has now found the blog and it is no longer safe here…ha ha ha!

However, with the last shipment of Lovesticks I could no longer resist and had to cast on some mitts…but I had a vision for exactly what I wanted and so I just kinda made up the mitts as I went along.

May introduce my  B.A mitts**

Sorry for the bad pics..it was late…and I used photo booth…so lazy..I know!

If anyone is interested in the pattern let me know and I will write it up.

** for those of you who do not listen to Dane Cook’s comedy BA= Bad Ass**

Pigeonroof Studios Poseidon sock yarn in superwash merino/seacell blend…stunning!

and super yummy BFL!

actual knitting coming soon!

Have you knit with the lovesticks Dk weight yet? If not you are missing out. The base yarn is amazing and Katie’s colours are too!

Check it out! 

This is a stunning yarn. I want to knit it all!

All week long I have felt like poor little Timmy at the bottom of the well. I could see everyone walk by, but no one could hear me.

Needless to say the server switch did not go well at all. I won’t go into the gory details, but I was in fact unable to log into the website, my blog and on many days my email. It honestly felt like I was stuck in the well and no one could hear me. I could see you all, but couldn’t communticate. Then of course I stressed myself out about it into a good and wicked headcold, which I have been fighting all weekend. The good news is that much Christmas knitting was accomplished this weekend!

I am beyond thrilled to be back up and running! I will be updating the shop over the next few days with some amazing lovestick self striping DK and some malabrigo sock and then hopefully moving on to updating with the stunning merino/seawool pigeonroof studios that came in with her BFL roving.  Stop by this evening to catch the first of the updates!

Thank you all so much for your patience!
Signed,

Timmy

Just a quick note to let you know we will have Lovesticks DK and Malabrigo sock later in the week!

Both of these yarns are AMAZING!!