January 2025 Shop Update February 01 2025, 0 Comments

Welcome to the first shop update newsletter of 2025! Its been a busy month already with Waltham Abbey Wool Show and there is a nice top up of lots of popular colourways plus a new batch of our newest base Bonnie which is a lovely blend of Merino and Bamboo. I chose it as it has a lovely sheen and drape similar to silk blends, is a very white base pre-dyeing and especially when dyeing semi-solids has a lovely slightly heathered appearance caused by the bamboo fibre resisting the acid dyes we use. I'm looking forward to dyeing more of this base this year plus hopefully a nice new batch of Flockly once it back in stock with my supplier and hopefully some more interesting new bases. I always strive to find a balance between quality, price and usability and I'm hoping to write some more patterns this year using some of our more unusual bases. Anyway, enough of what's to come for now.

Outside of work the kids have been busy at school, the eldest got good marks in his first lot of practice A Level exams and is also part of tech crew for the school play next week and my youngest has also had mid year exams and will be choosing her GCSEs soon. She knows what she wants to do so that shouldn't be too difficult.

Our next show is Unravel in February which is a big one for us and I'm already starting to dye for that. The January mini skein club will be posted tomorrow.

All the new yarns are now on the preview page so do take a look - there's Bonnie, Selkino, some Enchant and Enchant DK although most of what I dyed sold at the last show, and lots of Crush and Crush DK. Read on for more details or jump straight to the preview page below.

 

Fingering weight yarns

Bonnie

This is a relatively new base for us that I introduced at the last Open Studio but not very much has made it on line so far. This time there are three new variegated and 3 semi solid colourways. The semi solid colourways in particular have a lovely gentle heathered look from the bamboo content resisting the dye. Its beautifully soft and smooth and I think as well will have a cool feel for summer projects. Do tell me what you think if you try it.

 

Advent Yarn Set


There are just 2 full sets of our Advent Yarn from December available on Crush. The theme was the 4 seasons so you have Autumn, Spring, Summer and Winter plus a complementary semi solid called Seasonal Blush.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Selkino

This is our popular merino silk singles yarn. Our two new colourways, Aurora and Poinsettia, are now available on Selkino plus one skein left of the Seasonal Blush semi solid from the Advent Set as well as some extra repeatable colourways.

 

 


Enchant

There are only 2 new colourways of Enchant this time. Its still proving to be very popular at shows. If there are any colourways you are itching to see do let me know. I will be dyeing more for the website and Unravel very soon. As well as Abyss we also have some Chesil Beach which is a lovely colourway I don't think I've done on Enchant before. The alpaca base just softens the speckles slightly and the background colour blends beautifully. I love the way it has come out.

 

Crush

As well as a general top up of this popular sock yarn there are a few colourways I'd like to mention: Midnight Chapel is the show colourway from WAWS, read all about its inspiration on the yarn page. I have some more Mellow Fruitfulness which has been really popular recently so if you missed out on it at a show recently there are now 5 skeins read to go. Finally there are just two single skeins of the Winter colourway from the Advent Yarn Set as well as the full sets left, just don't ask how I managed to dye a different number of Winter to everything else, the answer is I'm really not sure, however its very pretty with a touch of icy grey and promising peachy pink I'm sure it won't hang around long. View all the Crush via the button below including the other newly dyed colourways.

 

DK Weight Yarns

Enchant DK


There is a little Enchant DK left after WAWS - both weights of this base really were super popular there, it really is one base where feeling it makes a huge difference. One customer described it to me as feeling like "Buttered Kittens"!






Crush DK


Our brilliant all round DK yarn. I decided I wanted to dye up some older recipes when I was dyeing this so this is one you might recognise from a while back - Oyster Bay. Nice and cheerful for the end of a very long January!



 
 
 
 
 


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Thank you for reading this newsletter and joining me for another year of colourful yarn and other witterings on. I really do appreciate everyone who reads my emails or comments on my social media. I have recently also joined Bluesky and you can find me at @skeinqueen.bsky.social so if you are on there do say hi but be gentle, I'm not sure I have the hang of it totally yet!

Until next time, take care, stay safe and keep crafting,

Rachel x

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