I love this little ‘zine! It is chock full of neat info about crafting and crafters, and I’ve read and re-read the issues that I own. Not only would you be doing a good thing to help out a small-press publisher & crafter, but you’d be doing something to keep the tradition of small press alive!
You can donate as little as a dollar… but the more you donate, the better your perks will be – because Heather is just a doll like that, she’s offering freebies for various levels of donation!

Please help CROQ – you won’t be sorry that you did.

I’ve been having such an amazing time vending and spinning at Pickles Farmers Market in NoDa – but the time has come for me to take a small break from my Saturday gig, at least through the month of August.

Why, you ask? Well, for one thing, August heat, wool, and Xiane do not a good team make… but more importantly, the BIG MOVE is here!

Yes! I’m in the final stretch of moving my household and business to right between the lovely little towns of Belmont and Mount Holly, North Carolina. This will put me much closer to Charlotte, right off of Interstate 85, and inside my own townhouse with a teeny yard… and most importantly, my own STUDIO yay.

For you, my faithful friends, readers, and fiber-nuts, this means new products to peruse as well as many updates about building one’s own studio space. I have many things coming down the fiber trail for us! This includes a new schedule for blog posts – I am bursting with ideas and I want to share them with YOU.

If there’s anything in particular you’d like to hear me babble on about, please post suggestions here. I’ll be revealing the new posting schedule sometime this week, and input is always, always welcome. Remember, I’m blogging for *y’all!*

I’m movin’ on up – not to the East Side, but to my own Ravelry group for fans and friends of Threeravens yarn and fibers. Yay!

If you’re on Ravelry [and if you're not, you SHOULD be] I’d love to see you there:

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/threeravens-dot-net

I’ve got a shop update coming up, too – more yarns to start, with art batts to come. It always takes the longest to list items on Etsy – I wish I could just snap my fingers and move on to making more pretty things. Technology gods, are you listening?

Via CraftZine:

The Power of Color

Black and white are the safe choices in the design world. The color of luxury is elegant and subdued. Yet, at the same time, even top-tier designers, artists and luxury brands have always used bright colors as well. It is not about either or. It is not black-and-white or color.

See more amazing color in the form of interior design, vehicle paint, theater seating and other things here: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1727/the-power-of-color

Look what I just put up for sale in my shop today? There are actually three of them – I showed “As Evening Falls” because, well, it is black and purples! C’mon now, you know me. *grin*

I should have new yarn listed by sometime tomorrow, too. I have a backlog of yarn to get up for sale, so keep an eye on this blog to see when updates happen! [alternatively, you could sign up for the Threeravens newsletter...]

Let me know what you think of the new batts, or any suggestions you have for colors!