At last Rose Haven has our long wanted online email newsletter.  Some of you who receive this newsletter will have been former clients of the Farm, B & B, Cottage, shop, fibres, lamb, workshops -- the myriad things we try to do.  We hope you will enjoy being updated on what we now offer and will be pleased with our evolution.  No more sheep but still a sheepie theme and lots of wonderful opportunities to enjoy the fibre arts and the County of Prince Edward.  Please note below you are welcome to pass our newsletter info to others or to unsubscribe.

 

Over the winter and spring we have increased our product lines and now carry Tilli Tomas, Artyarns, Jade Sapphire, Habu & can custom order from these. Our newest product is Fibre-Isle's Niji, soon to be known as Louet's Mooii, a lace yarn to die for! These yarns are on our Website Yarn Price List.

Now that we are a full-fledged shop we endeavour to offer you good shop hours.  Starting on the July long weekend, we are open for the summer Monday - Saturday 11 - 6, and Sunday 11 - 4.  You can also reach us by phone at 613-476-9092 or leave us a message.

Lamb products are now in stock.  Back are lamb pies while now is the time to pick up BBQ cuts such as butterfly legs.  Our lamb is County produced by Tracy & Garry Smith from their Kahtadin flock.

Since late last year we have added new gift products: Garneau Sheepskin slippers - the best in Canada!, sheepskin mitts and hats from Winnipeg and now the delightful Lantern Moon fair trade palm woven summer bags - great for beach or knitting projects.

We have also added new fibres and special items for fibre artists: unusual handspun yarns from LaLana in Taos New Mexico; new hand-dyed soy & bamboo packs from Pat's Colours, hand reeled tropical plant dyed Bombyx silk (625 m.) from Laos - great for plying or embellishment, ribbon packs offering an assortment of 3 - 4 types of ribbon in over 10 different colourways - good for quilters, fibre artists, weavers and knitters needing only a touch of ribbon and even fisherman's net yarn from Habu!

 

 

Linda was very fortunate in March and April of this year to fulfill her dream to bask in the spiritual splendour of Machu Pichu in Peru.  But besides the spectacular scenery, she also got to visit Malkini Ranch, courtesy of the Michel Group in Arequipa (a major Peruvian yarn processing mill).  Malkini is a wonderful high altitude alpaca ranch and is the setting for the Mirasol Project School for the children of the alpaca shepherds.  No longer are the children required to walk 3 hours each way to school or more likely not to attend school at all, this delightful new building is the pride of this community. Buildings are critical but books are also necessary, so we came bearing a small collection of Spanish books of which the dictionary was most welcome.  Rose Haven would like to offer a fund raising opportunity for us and our clientele to continue this good work by raising money for more book purchases.  Details in later letters.