New Look & New Stuff

As you might notice I’ve changed the entire look of the website. Over the 3 years that I’ve had this domain name the blog (and my business) has grown. As things grew I just kept adding stuff on. Pages, links, ads, shops, etc. until all of a sudden last week we hit critical mass and I just flat ran out of space. When I ran out of space I noticed that the whole thing was looking pretty slapped together. Kind of like a house that starts out as a two room cottage but over several generations of ownership turns into a sprawling estate. Rooms get added on willy nilly and before you know it; you have a compound instead of a house. Not cute, not cute at all.

So it was time to just level This Old House and start from fresh. If you’ve visited the site in the last 48 hours you may have seen any number of themes in various stages of tinkering. The look now is pretty much how things will stay for the foreseeable future barring of course another addition.

Now, since the site has a fresh new face let me tell you about some other changes that are going on at House of DaniDo! First of all I’ve made the decision to focus my attentions primarily on designing and my tea/coffee business. This means that my retail shop (www.buydanido.com) is going to be dissolved. I have moved all of my for sale patterns to the ‘Patterns for Sale’ page. Just like with the shop you can buy them through this website and once your payment is complete you will receive an immediate link to download the PDF. Nothing has changed other than the location where you purchase them!

However, as for the other things in the shop, those will be discontinued. I will no longer be stocking the shop with Dyed by DaniDo yarns. I will however still be continuing to fulfill the Choose Your Own Adventure Club memberships, I am no longer taking new members for the club because I have just the right amount of members for it to stay fun and high quality on my end. Of course if you feel you will suffer negative consequences if you don’t get in the club you can always email me and throw yourself on my mercy, I am very open to flattery. All my existing members will continue to get hand painted yarns and fiber each month and a selection of goodies as well.

What this means: well, first and foremost all the yarns that are in the shop right now are on sale. Prices are already discounted so there’s no waiting for a PayPal refund or entering codes. Except I am going to offer a special discount code each day on a specific sale item until they are all gone and out of my craft room! I want these babies to go to good homes, I will gladly keep anything that doesn’t sell but I myself am already approaching a stash that will most likely outlive me and I hardly need anymore hand painted sock yarn.

So today the super special discounted item is this hank of my Luxury Sock yarn (cashmere/silk/merino blend, ridiculously soft):

To take this off my hands use code ‘takeit’ at checkout for another 10% off the discounted price listed.

I’ll be running this sale through February 15th. Anything that doesn’t sell I guess I’ll have to keep for myself. (Like I mind!) Seriously though, if you want it, take it, I need to make room for more tea supplies!

After all of these are gone you will only have one place left to find Dyed by DaniDo yarns; the Phat Fiber Etsy Shop. I have just finished dyeing up a batch of one of a kind hand painted sock yarns to head out to Phat Fiber later this week. I will continue to supply Phat Fiber with hand painted yarns but they will be my sole distributor from here on out, so keep an eye on that shop for not just my yarns, but also great limited edition runs from other fiber artists. (Check out the Cult Classics yarn and fiber series Jennifer from Desert Garden Farm has in there! I love love love the Rocky Horror handspun.)

That brings me to my next announcement; I am collaborating on a very special project with Jennifer/Desert Garden Farm! We are doing a knit along together in February. In honor of the Phat Fiber box theme ‘Master Painters’ we’ve chosen the painting ‘The Proposal’ to inspire us for this knit along. Jennifer will be dyeing up hanks of worsted weight merino in a limited edition colorway and I am working up a beret/slouchy hat pattern to accompany it. You can read more about the KAL and get info on where to get your KAL kit here. I am super excited by the response we’ve gotten from this idea and I can see many more collaborations in our futures together. I absolutely adore Jennifer and love working with her so I am excited to be doing this project with her. We have an idea in the works for a ‘From Fiber to Finished Object’ kit as well that will let you spin your own yarn and then knit it up into a pattern. I am super excited about that one because it’s something I’ve wanted to do since I learned to spin!

I have more stuff up my sleeve but I’ll save that for the next blog post. Let me know what you guys think of the new blog design! Oh, and GO BUY SOME YARN!

(A real quick plug for my other business; Goddess Tea I’ve just announced a Tea of the Month Club and mixed up some new blends! Check out the blog for more info!)

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