And look! They are even early!! I think somehow we all hit upon a theme for this month. Can you tell what it is??? Hummmmmm. Enjoy!
Author Archives: ScoutJ
August Calendars are Here!
August 3, 2010 – 3:48 pm
I hope the summer is treating everyone well. If you are not on the Scout’s Swag Newsletter email, I would like to let you know that the stock is restocked with almost everything! If there is something that is sold out, let me know and I can get that for you.
And here they are!
better late than never! July 2010 desktop calendars are up!
July 7, 2010 – 2:10 pm
Sorry they are late! With the holiday and all…..y’all know how things go!
Enjoy them!!
June 2010 Desktop Calendars!
June 2, 2010 – 12:53 pm
You can surely tell that we’ve been bitten by the summer bug by the shots taken this month! Hope you enjoy them! As always we love to hear which one/s you take! Thanks!
Big Shop Update & Customer Appreciation Sale!
May 21, 2010 – 8:56 am
Slowly but surely I’ve been completely restocking the shop. Now that the Namasteis all restocked I decided to have a small sale! For the next three days, everything in the shop is 10% off. I would like to thank each and every one of you for your business. Scout’s Swag is just about to celebrate its 4 year anniversary and I would like to celebrate with you! In the 4 years the store has been opened, there have been 3,368,077 unique visitors. That’s a lot of people! So thank you again for your continued support.
A few new items are in the shop if you haven’t seen them already. The newest scent from Soak - Unleash is here.
The Circular Cases from Namaste are super cool if you haven’t seen them:
The Laguna, the Monroe, the Zuma the Hermosa and all of the Namaste accessoriesare all stocked!
A few other items that have been recently stocked:
Martini Sock Blockers
Knitter’s Rules & Sock Rules
Tape Measures
Pattern Tamers
Stitch Savers
Needle Gauge Pendants
Knitter’s Rules & Sock Rules
Tape Measures
Pattern Tamers
Stitch Savers
Needle Gauge Pendants
As always I thank you for your continued support! If there is anything you need and it is out of stock please contact me and I will order it right away.
May 2010 desktop calendars!
May 3, 2010 – 6:26 am
Here they are! There are some great ones from which to choose this month!
Hope you enjoy them! As always, we love to know which ones you like!
Scout, Cynthia, Carol & Robyn
April 2010 Desktop Calendars!
April 3, 2010 – 8:58 am
Whoops! I have been so busy I forgot to put them up here! Sorry! Here you go.
Sign-ups for Yarn Club 2010 & New Calendars!
March 2, 2010 – 2:07 pm
It’s that time of year again! Time for the FIFTH year of Scout’s Swag Sock Club. However, this year it is going to be called……Scout’s Totally Awesome, Radtastic, Superfantabulous Semisolid Yarn Club. Since many people do not knit just socks with my fantabulous yarn I figured it was time to rename the club. With this being the 5th year of the club I decided to put a spin on it. Not only will the colors be gorgeous semisolids from yours truly, but there will also be swag prizes for a lucky few, some free pattern suggestions and discounts on patterns that can be knit with the club yarn from some of the top designers out there in craft-land. Amy Singer, Kate Gilbert, Wendy Bernard, Rosemary Hill, Lisa Shobhana Mason and Miriam Felton are just a few of the participating contributors!! It’s really going to be a super fun club this time around with lots of cool swag. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
As I mentioned last year, I have tried my hardest to keep the prices down but the last two years I have continued to be hit when USPS increases their shipping prices so I had to up the price by just a few dollars so I don’t lose money. I wish I had control over this but if every year the shipping prices increase, I need to increase the club prices as well, to cover shipping and Paypal fees.
This year there are 80 spots available. The spots available are as follows:
- 6 Month Subscriptions ($170): 56 Spaces
- 3 Month Subscriptions ($85): 40 Spaces
- 1 Month Subscriptions ($32): 24 Spaces
To help the signup process move smoothly, and ensure that everyone gets a fair shot, a lottery draw will be used. I am also opening the lottery up for longer than 48 hours so no one misses out this time. Starting today, March 2nd, you’ll be able to cast your name into the hat for one of the spots listed above. The signup form will be up until 6 PM MST on Friday, March 12th so make sure and submit your name before then. There is a definite chance I will make the club bigger if the response is bigger. Last year I allowed over 100 spots…..so it just depends! Bookmark this page as it will be where the signups are.
To signup, simply enter your Name, E-Mail Address, and select the spot you are interested in. If you’re a member of Scout’s Indie Swag Round 4, then click the checkbox marked Round 4 Member. All existing members who sign up will be entered into the drawing twice. We will be checking this against the current member list, so please do not check that box unless you are truly in the club.
This year there will also be a box to check if you live outside of the US. There are additional shipping charges if you do. For each month you sign up the charges are roughly $12.00 more for Canada and $14.00 for any other country. For example if you live in England and get a 6 month spot you will need to pay an additional $84.00. I will only mail Priority Mail because with First Class you do not get tracking. I would hate for anything to get lost overseas and not be able to track it. Unfortunately the USPS rates go up every year and I have no control over this expense. I wish I did!
Please note that signing up on this page does not guarantee you a spot in Round 5 of the Indie Swag Club, it just puts you into the random drawing to determine the winners. Also, please don’t signup if you aren’t 100% sure that you want to join. Another point I would like to make is that anyone who signs up for a 1 month spot also takes the chance of getting yarn in ANY one of the following months. April, June, August, October, December, February. So there is a definite chance you won’t get your yarn until February 2011. I know that seems like forever away and want to make sure you understand that! Also, yarn is mailed the last week of each one of these months so you usually get it the by the 1st or 2nd day of the following month.
Once the signups are complete, the winners will get an e-mail, along with a Paypal Invoice for the cost of the membership. Then you can sit back and wait for your awesome yarn! Good luck everyone!
March 2010 DEsktop Calendars are here!
Simply click on the link to the larger image, right click and save to desktop!
We hope you like them!
Olympic Medals
February 12, 2010 – 3:03 pm
Well lookie what my dear friend Bev & I cooked up for the Olympics!
(taken from her blog)
The thrill of victory. That’s what we’re all after, isn’t it? We’ve signed on to the Ravelympics or the Knitting Olympics to strive for something just a little beyond what we thought we could achieve. There’s no easy here.
For 17 days you’re going to craft your heart out, pushing past the pain, past that decrease you forgot, past the 13 rows you had to tink. All for glory. All for knowing that, yes, you can knit a complicated lace stole in 17 days. For knowing that, yes, you can knit, steek, and finish an entire sweater in 17 days. For knowing that, yes, you can finish those seven UFOs that have languished on your project page since 2007. For knowing that, yes, you can triumph.
You’ll have your finished objects as a reward. You’ll have your blog badges from Bobicus Maximus and the Yarn Harlot. But you deserve even more.
Why not award yourself the kind of Olympic medal that means the most to a knitter: a skein of limited-edition, hand-dyed sock yarn exclusively from Scout’s Swag. Gold. Silver. Bronze. It’s all there to mark your fortitude, to commemorate your achievement, to celebrate your craftleticism.
Only 80 skeins of Olympic Medals sock yarn will be created. Each beautifully dyed skein will be 400 yards of superwash merino, enough for socks worthy of an Olympian, or even a shawl to wear as a mantle of your success. Whether you want to reward yourself or a member of your team, Olympic Medals yarn will be shipped by February 22, just in time to mark your achievement.
Go ahead. Anticipate the thrill of victory. No matter what happens in the next 17 days, you’ve earned this medal.
Help For Haiti
February 10, 2010 – 8:39 am
My good friend Romi has designed a beautiful shawl to raise money for Haiti relief.
The pattern is knit using Tactile Fiber Arts sock yarn in colorway Tangerine, a simply gorgeous color, and perfect in the pattern. She loaded the pattern into Ravelry on Saturday night, about 11 pm PST and has already sent off $1,000 in patterns!
The pattern is priced at $6.50, with $5 going to Haiti. She has decided to send off donations $500 at a time, and has already sent $500.00 to Doctors Without Borders! Her goal is to sell 10,000 patterns. Please link to this post and pass it on so we can help her reach her goal!
Statistics:
Yarn: 437 yard skein of fingering weight sock yarn from Tactile Fiber Arts
Needles: US 6 for body and US 8 to bind off
Construction: Knit from bottom tip to top, so it’s very easy to change the size smaller or larger
Price: $6.50, $5 of which goes to Haiti relief
Where to purchase: On Ravelry or Designs by Romi
Goal: Sell 10,000 patterns!
Favorite geeky detail: The bind off used is a reverse stockinette i-cord that looks like the body of the shawl but creates a nice firm tube that you can thread blocking wires through for a perfectly straight edge.
GO BUY A PATTERN!
THANK YOU!
