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Category: The Twisted Purl
A day with the Spinning Wheel
The basket of fluff:
Turned into a carded batt through drum carder:
The finished yarn:
From fluff to string.
Very First Ply Magazine Issue
Super excited to see the very first issue of Ply Magazine in my mailbox today. It’s my birthday and this was the perfect gift! Here’s the front:
Plus the cutest goat ever on the back cover:
If you are a spinner and haven’t subscribe yet? What on earth are you waiting for??? Go now!
Dear Local Yarn Shop Please Help
Dear Local Yarn Shop this is my plea to you,
I need your help to spread the word about our GoFundMe Campaign to raise funds to buy a Vintage Camper for use as a Mobile Yarn Studio.
My name is Cyndi Minister, the owner of The Twisted Purl (www.HandmadeYarn.com). I’m an indie fiber artist and make handspun yarn among other handmade fiber creations. I’ve recently had national news coverage for winning my state’s Battle of the Brands competition.
I’m just a small town crafty gal with a really big dream I’m trying to turn into a reality. I’d love to have a mobile yarn studio to travel to local yarn shops, like yours, and do more shows and festivals nationwide. I’ve launched a GoFundMe campaign to secure the funds to do just that, but could really use your help.
My hope is working together with your Local Yarn Shop could be mutually beneficial. You can help spread the word about my Indie Fiber Artist dream and I can help spread the word about your business.
The plan to help fund this crazy dream is to give you a Flyer and ask if you could print it and put it in your yarn shop. Encourage your patrons to donate to help fund The Twisted Purl mobile yarn studio (“Portable Purl”).
For every donation from your store’s customers, I will do a social media shout out through my Twitter account and mention your store. I’d also like to mention your store’s participation through my Facebook Page This will get more attention drawn to your store too.
If your store gets the very most donations, you win the very first trunk show with the Portable Purl.
I’ll bring my mobile studio directly to your store, set up, and give you back a percentage of my sales for the day.
On a side note: During any of my yarn store trunk shows I plan on putting a basket on the table, anyone who visits can pick out fibers from my stash of their choice into the basket. When the show is concluded I will turn that basket into a yarn and name it after your store. You would get this yarn back to sell in your store.
One of my main goals in owning a Travel Shop/Studio is being able to bring more local and national awareness to the local yarn shop through trunk shows on location while sharing my love and passion of fiber arts with the nation. I want to share the entire creative process of choosing fibers, carding, and spinning with anyone who wants to see also giving them the opportunity to get their hands on my handmade yarn. I just love using all this high-tech savvy stuff to promote my primitive hand craft. With this mobile option, I hope to reach a lot more people and bring more awareness to Indie Fiber Artists and Local Yarn Shops.
This is an all or nothing campaign. If I do not reach the goal of $5,000 by the end of the campaign, any money that has been donated will be returned to the contributor.
I’ve released a Press Release nationwide and hope they will cover what local yarn stores are doing to help fund this dream as well.
If you would like to be involved, you totally rock!!! Please let me know so I can share with my social media circles.
Let your customer know if they donate to mention your yarn store in the comment (or you could collect donations and make a daily deposit in your store’s name…whatever is easiest and works best for you). Every dollar adds up and I know I can’t do this without your help.
Click Here for Printable Store Flyer
There are reward incentives for each donation level as well. More information about our GoFundMe campaign can be found at this link: http://gofundme.com/
Please call or reply with questions. The campaign is live and if you can help spread the word please do so as soon as you can! The clock on my 14 days is quickly ticking down. Thank you so very much for your time!
Sincerely,
Cyndi Minister
Crazy Yarn Lady behind The Twisted Purl
Cyndi (at) The Twisted Purl (dot) com
501.339.8832
Indie Fiber Artist Launches Campaign to make Mobile Yarn Studio Reality
Please help make this crazy yarn lady’s dream come true!
My name is Cyndi and I’m a yarnaholic. I’ve been on a mission to fill the world with fun textures and yummy yarn goodness since the start of The Twisted Purl in 2007. It’s time to take the Purl Portable.
We’ve accomplished a few amazing feats together including beating out some of the largest brands in our state and securing the handmade win in the Battle of the Brands competition.
Through my Facebook Page, Instagram, and website I share the entire handmade yarn process. Through photographs you see how the yarn is made from fluff to string. You take part in the yarn’s handmade journey by turning it into something beautiful to be shared for generations to come.
THE DREAM:
This Fundraiser will enable our Handmade Journey to come directly to you by securing the funds needed to purchase and custom a vintage camper trailer like the 1973 Boler. My dream is to open the doors of our mobile yarn shop and you can come on in to see the yarn, feel the textures, and help to create a special handspun yarn for each and every show we do. Seriously now, how cool would it be to have a mobile yarn shop that can come to your town for you to experience?
The Portable Purl will travel to shows nationwide bringing handmade yarn and fiber creations directly to you. Also, with the help of fantastic local yarn shops, I’d love to set up in their parking lots to have the ultimate handmade yarn trunk show.
Inside the Portable Purl there will be a dedicated area where you can experience the entire handmade process from fluff to string. You will have the option to pick out your very own fluffy fibers and watch as it is turned into yarn through my spinning wheel and leave the shop with your personally created handmade yarn.
My ultimate dream is to purchase THIS ACTUAL TRAILER in the photograph, but there are a few variables that are beyond our control. Once I have the funds to make the offer we hope it will be accepted. BUT if it is not, there are a wide variety of optional vintage campers available in my budgeted price range. The money raised will all go directly into the Portable Purl and make this dream a reality.
The entire process of purchasing and customizing the inside of the shop will be shared through our website and on Facebook.
YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Handmade is a story that must be told and this mobile trailer will help tell that story while creating new chapters at every stop we make. With your generous donation you become a part of our handmade story too. Your name will be entwined in a commemorative piece that will proudly be displayed inside the mobile shop for all to see.
GOODIES FOR YOU:
By donating you get mad props, hugs, eternal gratitude, and the awesome knowledge YOU have helped make this portable handmade yarnmobile come true. Each donation gets you a social media shout out and your name will become a part of our history. The more you donate, you will be rewarded with some of the most popular handmade fiber creations we have, like our Felted Soaps and Wool Felted Dryer Balls and of course yarn. At the $100 level you will get a specially made yarn created to match our new mobile shop.
If you want 100% assurance the new Portable Purl will come to your hometown, donate at the Yarnusmaximus Level. I’ll come to your town, do a mobile yarn show anywhere in the US you like! Let you pick out all the fibers for your very own basket of fluff and turn it into yarn while you chill out on the couch in the new mobile shop. *Continental US only, it’d be pretty hard to get this thing overseas….at first 😉
If you are a Local Yarn Shop making a donation, please let me know where you are so we can put you on our future Trunk Show Yarn Shop Tour. I can’t wait to meet you!!!
I dream big dreams. I reach for the impossible. This is yet another impossible that CAN BE reached, but not without your help! Let’s make this a reality so I can share the passion and love of fiber arts nationwide.
To learn more about this campaign and make a small donation please go to: http://GoFundMe.com/TheTwistedPurl
Press Release is available here