Platformnine Designs

When I saw on the Rav Phat fiber group that some of the contributors started to get their boxes I bolted for my mailbox! Sadly, it wasn’t there yet :c It finally arrived at 4:40PM!!! My mail was SOOOO late today! Anyway, I brought the box in, but I couldn’t crack into just yet - we sat down to a really early dinner today.

As soon as I finished eating I ran up to my room and grabbed my camera. Excuse the poor setting (the dog cage turning into a rabbit cage, LOL), I was too excited to go anywhere else. When I first opened up the box, this is what I saw:

First of all, the little card holder is SOCUTE. I love it. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!! It’s my new makeup bag for my purse! Then I peeled back the tissue paper (also cute!) and ZOMG STUFF!!!! I was hit with STUFF overload and I didn’t know what to pick up first!

First I opened the brown paper bag from Farm Girl Chic and I found some awesome wool/mohair locks mixed with some cotton and ribbon strips! It’s sooo soft and silky! Another big bonus is that there is hardly any VM in there! The last time I bought locks (from a different place) it was filled with VM :c

Then I oogled and molested the samples from Natchwoolie (yellow - peeps colorway) and Smoky Mountain Fibers. The packaging for the Natchwoolie sample is so adorable! The colorway (peeps) is a very lovely muted yellow that is a 90% Wool / 10% Mohair blend. The SMF sample is a gorgeous blend of blues and greens. It’s called beachglass and it’s a 100% merino roving sample that’s about a 1/2 an ounce! It looks like it’s going to spin up in sections of color, so I’d better learn how to navajo ply!

Next I was really excited to find the soap sample from Smoky Mtns Apothecary! I’ve never been huge on minty smells, but OH MY GOD the peppermint smells SO GOOD. All of the girls in my family are clamoring to have it in their bathroom! And I also got a sample of 80/20 merino/bamboo from 1,000 Petals. It’s really soft and shiny! And sparkle fiber from Enchanted!!! I love sparkle, so yaaay glitz! And a YUMMY yellow/pink/brown 70% Merino SW/30% SeaCell top from Knit It Up. This. Feels. AMAZING. I’ve been so excited to try seacell, but have never gotten around to it yet - here’s my chance!

And here is where I literally jumped around my room for a few minutes! I GOT A KIP BAG!! I’ve been so excited about these since I saw the samples of them for the March box. I can’t believe I got one!!! It’s from Ruddawg, and it’s sooo adorable! Next I found a gorgeous roving sample from Infinity Yarn & Fiber! It’s a beautiful superwash merino dyed in shades of green. Then I pulled out my first yarn sample from the box, a gorgeous organic merino fingering weight sample from The Unique Sheep in a gorgeous shade of green! This box is soooo working for me, I LOVE GREEN!!!

The next batch of samples I pulled out was a clever button from Wildhare and Fiber, a gorgeous laceweight sample from The Twice Sheared Sheep, and a very cool handspun sample from Coolclimates. The button makes me giggle because it says “Shop ‘til you drop” with a picture of a drop spindle on it! Clever, clever! The lace weight sample is absolutely gorgeous. It’s a really pretty shade of light blue. Another bonus is that it’s from recycled yarn! The Coolclimates sample is this really cool chunky homespun (what I call thick and thin, it’s just so chunky!) that’s got gorgeous colors in it. It’s a thicker single with greens and pinks and deep purples plied with a thin single that’s a really pretty violet color.

The final samples that I pulled out of the box was the awesome hank of Tulip yarn from My 8 Kids Mom, which is totally awesome and looks like it’s a really generous sample! I also pulled out the really pretty dreadlocks yarn from Giffordables, and the soft cotton sample from Katsara Luxury Handpainted Yarns. The sample from Giffordables is a squooshy yarn that I think would make a really cool bag. It has gorgeous shades of green in it, and it’s plied with a beautiful ice blue lace weight single. The Katsara sample is positively dreamy! It’s SO soft! I just keep holding it to my face and going “Mmmmm” haha! The colors are spectacular, too! It’s a wonderful blend of muted greens, blues, and purples. It’s beautifully dyed!

Finally, last - but most definitely not least, I pulled out the Merino/Silk sample from Corgi Hill Farm. Oooooh my god. That’s all I can say about this sample. I literally melted to the floor for a second when I opened it. It’s unbelievable soft, and all of the firestar in it makes it SOSHINY! The colorway is simply gorgeous. This is one of those things that you would describe as “BUTTAH” ♥ It came with candy too! I haven’t tried any yet, but it looks cool!

Note: for larger pictures, click here to see them!

All in all, I loved the box! It was my first one, so yay! (I tried for a March box, but it was stolen from my card twice!) I can’t wait to send in my samples for the May box, I think you guys will really enjoy them! I took pictures yesterday, so later on today I’ll be posting some previews of the handspun and batt samples!

Another note: Halfway through writing this post I went out for drinks and didn’t get to bed ‘til about 2:30AM. I had fun :D