I know I have needed to do this for a while but I am finally updating the site, well I’m not but my friend and web designer Kate is, I did have to help a little.   Kate is a fellow knitter and spinner and we have known each other for several years and she does have a great way of making the site very “Tempted”.   I really love the way it has come together and now I even have a shopping cart, now that there is a shop here I will have to do better at keeping it stocked.  I have but a little up and will have more soon.

Welcome take a look around and let me know what you think.

Thanks Stacy

I am so excited to say that even though it took me a while to recover from last year’s club, I am ready to get started again.

The plan I have in mind is centered on an era in time that I find extremely interesting and just plain fun.

When you think of Burlesque what comes to mind? Sequins, Feathers, Glitter, Glamour, Tassels, Boas a little Comedy maybe even Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First”? OK I admit that may be the romanticized version but that is what we will play with for the next year. The Glitz, the Glamour and the Goddesses that made up the legend of Burlesque.

The plan is for a 1 year club with 6 packages, each including a skein of yarn and some Burlesque inspired goodies. Shipments will be arriving every other month for the next year starting in August and continuing thru June of 2012. The yarns will include many of the current Tempted lines including the most recent addition, Prissy Grrl. And hey, you just never know, you may end up with the first introduction to the newest offerings, if there are any. It will also include Goodies and a couple of patterns from some of my most loved Designers. The total price is $230 for the year which includes US Shipping. All internationals will be $200 with shipping billed separately for each installment. Anyone that chooses to pay $210 up front gets a $20 Discount. If you chose the payment plan I will bill $38.33 to your pay pal account the month before the shipment is due.

So rev up your knitting needles and let’s get started! I can’t wait for you to join me in a year filled with fans, fur and flirty goodness.

If you are interested please copy and paste this form with all the info filled in and email to stacy@temptedyarns.com .

Thank you all so much for all the amazing support you continue to show.

All my Love Stacy aka Tempted

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I don’t guess I blogged much about it but last fall my Little Sis and I took a little trip out to Virginia to visit Wendy Johnson and LB.  Before we headed to the Mountains to meet up with LB, Wendy took us out to explore Old town Alexandria.  It was a cool, rainy, wonderful Fall day and of course the favorite stop was the Yarn shop, Fibre Space.  I truely fell in love with the shop, extremely well stocked and has one of the most helpful and friendly staff I have ever seen.  Well today I am very pleased to say that Tempted is now (or will be later today) available at this wonderful store.   I am currently stalking the UPS tracking and it is out for delivery. Haha    This is just a little tease of what should be landing at Fibre Space soon, I really hope that you all like it.

This picture kinda captures what it was like to hang out at Fibre Space, can’t you see the joy on her face.  Relaxed, happy, and reeking of yarn fumes. lol  We did have a wonderful time there and if you are in the DC area it is totally worth a stop.

In other news the KnitGirllls SAL/KAL is in full swing and wow, there are some amazing spinners out there.  I have been having a blast following along with everyone’s progress on the Ravelry thread.  I have managed to spin a little over on ounce of my 4oz and am kinda experimenting with the colors and am really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.  I will post pictures soon.  Those of you that are spinning and knitting along please know that I am extremely proud to be a part of such an excited project and am totally blown away by all the beautiful work.

I know this is shocking, 2 blog posts in 1 week! 

I have been a horrible blogger this year.  You might wonder if I haven’t been doing anything but honestly it has been the exact oppisite, it has been crazy busy all year.

I thought maybe I would just show you my year in pictures.

Lots of MCN and a pair of gloves made with that wonderful base.

The smashing Stacy shawl made for me by my little sis.  Another Luxe creation.

Then there was the Argus Shawl knit out of Lovely Grrl.

The Seaside also made with Lovely Grrl.

A big ol’ pile of Lovely Grrl that made its way to the Loopy Ewe.

Caught in a snow storm at little Sisters house while at a Trunk show at Swak.  March in Oklahoma, either this or a tornado, always a toss up.

Spring Fling 2010

More yarn for Loopy.

Nothing like a visit with awesome friends including of course The Knit Girllls along with some of my other favorite kniters Sara and Jessica.

There were knitting tragedies, like dropped stitches in lace!

Knitting triumphs, like the Shetland Pi KAL.  Knit with Good Grrl and sitting around my shoulders as I type.

More wonderful knitting friends visiting, the wonderful and super talented Lynn.

Probably one of the biggest highlights though was the amazing and way way out of my comfort zone trip to Virginia to meet Lucy!   Seriously she is such a Diva!

 Wendy might have been there too, really she is the absolute best!  She was such an amazing hostess and we had the most amazing time.  Really, I don’t do much real traveling so this was a very big deal to me.  My sister Muriel and I traveled over to VA for 5 days.  We took a trip to Fibre Space and really loved our tour of Old Town Alexandria.

 Doesn’t she look pretty sitting in the window seat, btw she still hasn’t finished that shawl, nothing like a sister to tell off on you. LOL

Then there was the trip to Graves Mountain and sitting around knitting with not only the Amazing Wendy but also with Muriel and the ever elusive LB!  I finally got to meet her in person after years of an online friendship.  She is just as wonderful in person as she is online.

I have got to be one of the luckiest knitters in the world.  I have made some amazing friends.

As usual I wouldn’t be me without my Gray Ladies!

The last big knitting event of my year was the Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza and another wonderful oppuritunity to see some good friends.

Up in the Arkansas Mountains at the beautiful Magazine Mt Lodge. 

What a great group of women!  We had a wonderful time and there was a lot of knitting going on.  The entire place was packed with knitters, spinners and fiber enthusists of all kinds. 

I didn’t get a picture of the booth, but the kind and generous Elizabeth of Stringtown Yarn and Fiber in Ft.Smith AR let me share her booth.  I have known Elizabeth for years and tell everyone what a fiber guru she is.  She knows it all!

This was the year of great friends!

 Here is to another great year of fiber and friends.

Occasionally I like, oh lets not kid ourselves I LOVE having knitting visitors.  Lucky for me Mr. Tempted and DD are good with it too.  This past weekend THE Knit Girllls (Laura and Leslie), Sara and Jessica all came to stay.  We had such a great time together.  An incredible amount of fiber was spun and yarn knitted but most of all there was a whole lot of laughter and fun.

The first evening everyone was here we had the most amazing summer rain that cooled everything down enough that we could really enjoy the deck.  I am so amazed at how much knitting got done this weekend.

Now doesn’t this look like a good time?  I have been acquanted with all of these girls for 3 years but this weekend we really got to know eachother. First thing we learned is that Jessica loves guacamole.  I think I might have overplanned the food because day 2 the only cooking that was done was breakfast quiche and yarn/fiber dyeing.

Day 2 included a whole lot of spinning!  We all had our wheels and it was a very relaxing and fun day.  There was just a whole lot of laughing and talking. 

Knitting and spinning have brought me hours and hours of enjoyment, along with warm feet, hands and shoulders.  I have to say that the greatest benefit I have recieved from my years of knitting and spinning is the amazing friendships that I have developed. 

Thanks girls for making the drive and I can’t wait to do it again.

I have finally recieved the yarn for theLoopy Ewe and will be dyeing like a mad woman for the next week to catch up.  I will also be preparing for the upcoming Stringtown trunk show on August 14th.  I would love to meet anyone that can make it there. 

I took up the challenge handed down by the Knit Girllls and joined in on the Norwegian Rose KAL.  Pattern is in Wendy Johnsons latest book, ‘Toe-Up Socks for Every Body’.

Really bad phone picture, I was in a hurry and didn’t want to drag out the camera, sorry.

First one down, now for the second and I had to dare Leslie (one of the Knit Girllls) to switch colors so I had to do it too and I love it!

Very Nice HUH?

Getting there.

Now kicking back and enjoying these wonderful socks.  I loved the pattern and really enjoyed knitting these. 

I don’t think I have ever knit anything this quickly, started on May 11th and finished them on May 24th.  I also dyed for it too, so really started the project a couple of days before.  It has been way to hot here to wear these socks so now I have another reason to look forward to Fall. 

Hope you are all enjoying your knitting too.

Just got back from the Spring Fling in St Louis and I am still trying to catch up on my sleep, when I say just I meant 3 days ago.  It was AMAZING of course! 

The weekend began with the Gray Ladies showing up at my house at 5:30am Thursday morning, I was supposed to be ready to go but…. I wasn’t, Del hasn’t forgiven me yet.  We drove out of my driveway at 6:03am and began the Big weekend.  As we drove we all commented that it will only seem like a second and we would be driving home again, and that is exactly what it seemed like.  We ended up at Panera/St. Louis Bread Company for dinner, with a very large group, including Wendy Johnson, Anne Hanson, Gryphon from Sanguine Gryphon, Leslie, Laura, Aimee, Dani and several others.  Then it was on to the Desert Reception.. I just realized that I totally forgot about the amazing goody bag and the cupcakes.  Really I realize I am going to leave a ton out, so how about a bunch of pictures.

  did get to hang out with Leslie and Laura of KnitGirllls video cast fame, and I might have even done a little interview with them on the Video cast and boy was I in good company.  They interviewed Sarah from Perfect Day yarns, Wendy Johnson of WendyKnits, and me.  I have known Leslie and Laura since 2008 and the Gray Ladies really love Laura, she helped them through Wendy’s class way back in 2008.  They are both amazing and a whole lot more fun then should be legal.

I also got to hang out with Carin of Round the Twist.  Yes, I really am that short.   Carin was totally wonderful, in fact I don’t think anyone at the Fling were anything but wonderful.  I actually got to spend quite a lot of time with her and I hope I get to do it again sometime.  

The one thing I totally regret is that I didn’t get a picture of all the Stacy Shawls, wow there were a whole bunch of them in a rainbow of colors.  I thought about asking everyone to get together for a picture but just didn’t get it done. Dang it.

 Lobby Knitting

Oh and there was some shopping.

I have missed so much, got to spend time with some many wonderful people and I just can’t get it all in here.  Tracee, Sara, Jessica, Sarah, Lulynn, Karen, Lynn, Aimee, Dani, Tammy, Janice, Kate….. and so so so many others Thank you so much for making this such a wonderful trip.

Super Big Thank you to Sheri!!!!

The colors are some that I was experimenting with during one of my many visits to what has now been lovingly named "Tempted Estates".  (And even though I’m scolding my sister right now, I have to give her some credit.  How cool is it to have a sister that will let you "experiment" with cashmere!!!)  Since I dyed two skeins and hadn’t thought of anything to do with it by the time Wendy came up with the awesome creation, The Stacy Shawl, I decided that I would knit my sister’s namesake shawl with HER yarn that I dyed!  Now tell me, have you ever heard of anything sweeter?  Well after casting it on and ripping it out twice, I finally got it right and knit the entire thing as my Ravelympics project.  Of course, being the "deviant" little sister that I am, I’m letting her weave in all the ends and block it. I know, I’m a spoiled little brat.  They keep telling me that but I figure I have to make her work for some of it or else it just might go to her head.