By very pleading demand the Finished Object Contest is being extended til April 15th that gives you another month to knit knit LIKE THE WIND!

I want to see pictures of your finished projects using Grrrl Shaped Yarns! Since this is a contest that requires a bit more work it will be open until March 15th.

All you have to do is Cast-on and knit something with any of the GSY yarn you might have and send me the picture either via here twitter(@grrlshapedyarns) or Ravelry. If you also put the project and yarn information into your Ravelry FO's you get a bonus entry!

The winner will win a 35 dollar gift certificate to GSY and a special secret gift!

So what are you waiting for CAST-ON!

I just finished one of my first custom orders and man do I love it! It came out exactly how I and my customer was hoping it would. Is it a colour I would wear? Knit? Think of? No, no, and no! and that's what I love about it. That one custom order that requested I step outside my comfort zone has helped me step out of the box I sometimes put around myself accidently.

I'm hoping to soon have a gallery of all the custom colourways that i make so you can see what other people have ordered...

How do you make a custom order? just choose you base yarn, and when checking out leave a comment telling me what you'd like....

Do you like pukeko but wish the blue was purple instead? Tell me!

Do you have a favorite purse you would love to have yarn to match? Send me a pic!

You just want that yarn I haven't seemed to stock in ages? Go ahead and give me a prod by custom ordering it!

You can find all the custom dying information over at in the catalog and see past custom orders over at the custom colourway gallery

Well I'm charging full steam ahead with local craft fairs and will be showing at two different ones...

Alicetown Craft Fair Saturday December 5th from 10am in Victoria Park in Alicetown....

and The Porirua Christmas Carnival Under The Canopies on Saturday December 12th 11am till 3pm

So keep your eyes out for us...

This also means the shop here might be a bit bare for a while but keep a look out on Wednesday the 15th for hopefully the last update of the year...

Grrrl Shaped Yarns will be closed from Dec 22 till January 6th while orders can be made in this time they will not be processed until the 6th

Okay so here’s the deal - the word it needs to spread like wildfire about my business, so I thought I would do this little contest, it’s a blogging contest.

All you have to do is blog about Grrrl Shaped Yarns of at least 150 words.

Report back to me the link to the post.

I will put all the names of the people who have blogged from the opening day(Nov 11th) till Dec 21st in a hat and the winner will get a special skein of GSY yarn, and my sock pattern to go with it!

You can email me the link at info@grrrlshapedyarns.com

or post in in the ravelry group which can be found here

Happy Blogging!

Knots, the knitter's worst nightmare, are even worse for dyers.We try to avoid them at all costs but unfortunately there comes a time when you just can't avoid having one in your skein.
We all have different methods of compensating for knots, and here is what I do here at GSY:

• if a skein has 1 knot in it, I add an extra 5 metres
• if it has 2 knots, you get an extra 10 metres
• any more than 2 knots and I discount the price of the skein and make sure you know why it's discounted!

I do my best to avoid having knots at all.

The day has finally come to launch the site and sell some stuff!! this is going to be a really light soft launch I only have three colourways ready but will hopefully be adding things constantly! So keep checking in! The site is not perfect so please do tell me if you have any glitches. I can't tell you how excited I am that you all have joined me on the beginning of this little adventure, that shall soon be a complete change of my lifestyle!!! So when is the site opening you want to know?

Wednesday at 12pm(noon) NZ time (sorry I really don't know what time that is in the rest of the world)

Can't wait feel register an account while your waiting one less thing you need to do during the race for your skein of yarn!

http://grrrlshapedyarns.com/

Yarn Ahoy!
Brooklynne

Well things have been busy around here at GSY Headquarters... what's been happening well

20kg's of yarn arrived just waiting to be dyed.

I then went to work setting up may studio in our shed just the way I need it to be.

Today I started putting the dye pots on the stove and yarn started to dye

While other yarn hung up to dry.

Things are getting exciting around here... I have three different sock weight bases, a superwash merino, a superwash merino/bamboo blend, and a superwash merino/silk blend... I have some exciting ideas and plans. Hope you all will keep checking back for various updates, and sneak peaks at future colourways.

Welcome To Brooklynne Michelle's new enterprise Grrrl Shaped Yarns. Grrrl Shaped Yarns has been born out of Brooklynne's search for the perfect hand dyed yarn in New Zealand. While she found many yarns she liked and even loved, more even that she bought, she still felt there was something missing and she hopes to find it and offer it all to you!

Grrrl Shaped Yarns will be opening it's doors in November of 2009.

Brooklynne is a Potawatomi grrrl-shaped-thing, living in Wellington, calls home San Francisco. but hails from Michigan in the US. She has been active in the trans community in all three regions for the past 9 or more years, including working for the only trans youth Non-Profit that was run by trans youth(under 26). Brooklynne is also a Fashion designer and avid(or is that rabid) knitter. She has been knitting for over half her life having started when she was 12 years old. She likes singing loudly in the shower when no one is home and dancing in her underwear to cheesy music.