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Wooly Moss Roots {giveaway}

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Today’s giveaway is from Jeff and Taryn of Wooly Moss Roots.  They have lots of exciting news, and I am so glad that they are here today to share it with all of you!  Be sure to follow along at Taryn’s Blog, and “like”  Wooly Moss Roots on Facebook.
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“Hi everyone and thanks to Ginny for inviting us back here today. Many of you already know us from before on Ginny’s blog, but for those of you who don’t, we are The Wilson Family- Jeff, Taryn, and Bracken. When we are not creating, we’re busy on our small homestead usually in the garden or the kitchen.

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Jeff is the wood wizard around here and he makes some gorgeous buttons. We’re a good pair since I’m a knitter and love using his handmade buttons all the time. Plus I really enjoy spreading the love and offering the special buttons he makes to other knitters, sewers, and crafters of all kinds. I like photographing each unique set and listing them in the shop, but what I love most of all is hearing from our customers and getting to see pictures of all the beautiful things they are creating with them. That’s my favorite part. (And that’s why I’m filled with glee every time I visit our Ravelry group and there’s a new project posted there!)

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Jeff was going strong, sanding buttons and woodburning them, but he did what he tends to do: work, work, work nonstop. His body started rebelling and he started getting tendonitis in his elbow.  At the same time he was struggling with some sciatic pain. Things he’d always done easily before, in our work and on the homestead, became challenging for him to say the least. We knew we wanted to keep doing what we loved for our business, but at the same time not work his body like a machine. We embraced some new technologies we’d never considered before and started using a laser machine.

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The laser machine made it possible for him to take designs and burn them into the wood, rather than woodburn and carve everything by hand. I can’t say how exciting this was for us! Spending more of his time doing design work and less time carving and woodburning made his tendonitis disappear. (He’s been busy creating wooden jewelry with the help of the new tool and the next step is to start burning designs on our buttons, which we’ve just been beginning to do.) He’s still doing quite a bit of sanding and we will continue to offer our high-end wooden buttons that we are so fond of, but we will also be offering some other options that are a bit more affordable. In addition to our fabric buttons, we are now offering coconut buttons with all sorts of designs. We found some beautiful coconut buttons and have been having so much fun burning designs on them (give us your requests if you’d like to see something in particular.) Just this week Jeff came into the house from the shop with a huge grin on his face and showed me his very first wooden shawl pin with a design burned into it with the laser. Check out the new offerings (there are some fun wooden knitting magnets as well), exciting things are happening around here these days!

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For today’s giveaway, Jeff and Taryn are offering a lovely gift bundle including:  a wooden knitting magnet in Oregon myrtlewood that says: “I Knit Therefore I Am,”one set of eight buttons in winner’s choice of: honeybees in juniper wood or chickens in myrtlewood, and one set of eight coconut buttons in winner’s choice of: butterflies, trees, chickens, flowers, or Celtic knots.

In addition receive 10% off in both of Jeff and Taryn’s shops: Wooly Moss Roots and Mystic Orb, when you use the coupon code: NOVEMBERLOVE at checkout. The coupon code will be good through Thursday, November 20th.

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post!  Comments are closed and the winner is KC who commented, “What stunning buttons!  I adore all of Jeff’s creations.”

Thanks Jeff and Taryn,and  Wooly Moss Roots!

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  2. I like how this business lets people get into their personal lives- we get to see the makers and their struggles/triumphs. So happy for them! And lovely products!

  5. I love wollymoss roots blog and hand crafts and am amazed at jeffs talent with such small objects just beautiful there is always a project on my needles with 5 beautiful children to cloth I wouldn’t have it any other way

  9. I love Wooly moss roots, I follow the blog and their work.
    Buttons would perfectly fit my new knitting projects!!
    Thanks Ginny for the chance to win!

  10. I’ve admired their buttons for a long time. I just received an order of earrings from them and they are truly amazing. I’d love to use the buttons on a sweater or a cowl.

  17. Such a sweet family – I have enjoyed following them online the past year or two! I’d love to have a set of buttons for some of my crochet projects!

  21. So many new kinds! I had to favorite quite many on etsy, I am glad to see all the new designs and glad to hear that they are kinder to makers as well 🙂

  28. I’ve seen these buttons before and they are just darling. I can’t decide which to pick and I always end up walking away wishing I had Jeff’s talent. I don’t. So I’m happy to have a chance to win a few of these wonderful buttons! 🙂 Thanks, Wooly Moss Roots and Ginny!

  30. Great! I was just buying buttons for a sweater today and bemoaning the wood choices at my fabric store. These buttons are beautiful!

  33. I would love to win this bundle. I read her blog regularly and so admire their creative work and dedication to living a simple life.

  34. Love these buttons!The trees are my favorite. I love that photo of the array of buttons all laid out–it’s breathtaking.

  36. While my knitting skills are not yet up to creating a sweater, I have used a few WMR handmade buttons to upgrade thrifted sweaters. Whenever I wear them, I get so many compliments. That is the beauty of Jeff and Taryn’s work. It elevates the ordinary into something precious and unique. Thank you for the opportunity to own more of their lovely things.

  40. I have been admiring the creativity of Wooly Moss Roots for some time now. I would love to use these buttons with my knitting!

  44. Your buttons are lovely, and they bring to mind my grandfather, who worked in a button factory prior to the 1960’s.

  46. I’m so happy you guys have found a way to continue your trade without wrecking your bodies. It would be a shame to have to quit! Your craftsmanship is lovely and your family is precious. Congratulations on all of your new work!

  48. Wow! These new button desighns are beautiful ! Glad to hear your hubby has found a way to continue doing what he loves !

  50. This would be perfect right now…I’m finishing a sweater and have one started. Thanks for the chance. Beautiful.