Welcome to Purple Lamb!

Purple Lamb is about joy--the joy of creating using soft, luxurious yarn and fiber that lavish every sense. It’s about color and softness and texture running through your fingers as you create your own work of art out of high-quality hand-dyed artisan yarn and fiber.

Everything in my shop is soft enough to wear next to your skin. I use merino, silk, baby alpaca, and a few other really soft materials so you can make wearable art that you’ll really want to wear for years to come.

It is my constant goal to offer you beautiful, soft, and carefully crafted yarn and fiber at a price that's fair to all of us. I have been in business since 2011, and I treat my customers as friends.

I find inspiration everywhere, but my focus is on fabulous modern colorways inspired by classical literature, art, and music as well as the beautiful world around us.

Yarn Bases

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About the Dyer

My name is Carla Hanson, and I'm a dyer, spinner, art batt maker, weaver, knitter, and lover of all things soft and woolly. I began learning to spin and weave in 2003 and have delved deeper and deeper into the fiber arts ever since.

I started Purple Lamb in 2011, selling my handspun yarn on Etsy. Not long after I started dyeing yarn and fiber inspired by the classics, and here we are!

All these years later, I still love creating new colorways and choosing the softest of yarn bases to dye them on.

Above all, though, I love bringing joy to you--my wonderful customers! I truly have the best customers in the world, and I'm so grateful to all of you!

I live with my family in North Texas. My husband and children help me with Purple Lamb as their time and interests allow.

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Let customers speak for us

from 285 reviews

I love blues, this one is just marvelous.

Patricia Roberts
SAPPHIRE DREAMS - Yarn Dyed to Order

Repeat customer here. As always, love your yarn! Gorgeous colors, beautiful soft texture which gives great stitch definition. Received quickly, packed well. Thank you.

Marianne Davino
Jane Austen Collection - BALL AT NETHERFIELD - Yarn Dyed to Order

Repeat customer here. As always, love your yarn! Gorgeous colors, beautiful soft texture which gives great stitch definition. Received quickly, packed well. Thank you.

Marianne Davino
PURPLE JOY GRADIENT MINI SKEIN SET - Five Hand-Dyed 20 gram Sock-Weight Mini Skeins on Silken Fingering

Not gonna lie, I had a bunch of things in my cart debating on making my first purchase, but this gorgeous colorway sold me. I have no regrets except that I don’t have an unlimited supply of this beauty!!

Christina
Jane Austen Collection - ELINOR DASHWOOD on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

Absolutely stunning in person, and the yarn itself is such great quality that I don’t want to put it down

Christina
Jane Austen Collection - EMMA WOODHOUSE on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

Carla did the character of Lizzie justice here, and I’m so excited to work this soft, squishy yarn into a beautiful summer knit!

Christina
Jane Austen Collection - LIZZIE BENNET on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

The twinkle yarn is amazing and something I never could have even conceptualized, but I’m SO glad I was able to snag it while it was in stock!

Christina
BEAUTIFUL BLACK HOLE Hand Dyed on Twinkle Fingering - Splashed & Speckled Yarn

This yarn is beautiful and I can’t wait to be able to cast on with it!

Christina
Jane Austen Collection - MARIANNE DASHWOOD on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

This yarn was even more beautiful in person and I can’t believe how soft and squishy it is!

Christina
Jane Austen Collection - JANE FAIRFAX on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

Have gotten part way through this scarf. Took a little of each fiber color to spin a gradient for the stripe. Much fun.

Kim Young
HANDSPUN HIGHLIGHT SCARF SET - Made to Order

Exactly what I needed to pair with Bluebonnet. Great quality. Great color. Faster than expected turnaround from order to delivery.

Holly
PISTACHIO - Yarn Dyed to Order

It's beautiful and arrived in a timely manner. I have not yet had a chance to do anything with it or the other two skeins.

Renie Pope
Jane Austen Collection - EMMA WOODHOUSE on Sock Perfection - Splashed and Speckled Colorway

So gorgeous! I can hardly wait to work with it!

Anonymous
VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS YARN KIT - Dyed to Order

I love it so much l am ordering another skein. I am working on a scarf that has other yarns that blend very well. It will be marvelous.

Patricia Roberts
PLANET EARTH - Yarn Dyed to Order

I love purple! I have made several scarves in purples. Yummy color. You yarn is absolutely gorgeous and so nice to feel. Thank you so much.

Patricia Roberts
PURPLE DELIGHT - Yarn Dyed to Order