November 2024 Shop Update November 25 2024, 0 Comments

   
 
I'm sure its been less than a month since the last update, but my calendar says it was 4 weeks ago! Since then the studio has been decorated after the heating work done earlier in the year so its looking nice and fresh and all ready for the Open Studio next month. I also had a lovely day last Sunday at RiverKnits Christmas Stollen and Wolle event, I might not have had any stollen but I did have some very nice Christmas cake. Thank you to everyone how came and hello if this is your first email from me. I usually send one short email a week and a longer one like this on shop update days which happen once a month.

Outside of work the kids and I have been quite busy, They were both involved in the Remembrance Parade the other week and we had a day out to Portsmouth Dockyard at the end of half term. We are actually going again on Friday as the plan last time had been to go over to the submarine museum but it was closed. Fingers crossed its open this week.

This is a slightly smaller update as a lot of what I had sold at the weekend, which is lovely but I haven't had time to dye since, but what I do have are two brand new repeatable colourways, I'm hoping there will be another two shortly but I want to get these out there; and a whole bunch of very small batch, non repeatable, mostly sock yarn skeins; plus a few other bits including the extras from last month's mini skein club.

All the yarn is on the preview page already. There is Selkino, Crush and Crush DK. Plus the spare minis from October's boxes. As well as what's in stock there is also the opportunity to order the new colourways as Dye to Order.
 
  
 
 
   
 


Christmas Bunting Kits

 I have been busy designing this fun bunting for the Christmas events I'm at but I wanted to give everyone the chance to get their hands on it so I have listed it on line. There are only a few boxes left after the weekend when I launched it but I will be making up more very soon. You get a box containing enough yarn for 3 hats and 3 stockings, full written instructions for knitting and assembling and the ribbon and bells to create your very own string of bunting. Plus as one customer on Sunday said you also have a nice safe box to store it in for next year.

 

 

 Fingering weight yarns

 

 

 

 

 Selkino

Two rare non-repeatable pairs of skeins of Selkino. I will also at this point apologize for the photos this month but it was snowing when I took them so I wasn't going to stand there with the big loading door open, not that I think it was bright enough outside to have made any difference anyway. This is when I'm really grateful for photography lights but a bit of natural light still helps a lot.

 

 

   
 

Crush

The weather was certainly featuring in my naming of these skeins - the one on the left is named after a new word I learnt yesterday - Graupel - also called soft hail. Whatever its called it was very cold and wet! I'm sure these colourways will create lovely cozy items to help protect the wearer from the cold.

 

 

New Bonnie

I mentioned this the other day as I offered it as an option for the Advent Bundles. This new base is a lovely soft one with a great shine but no silk. Its a blend of superwash merino and bamboo which gives it a slightly softer drape than just merino.

 

 

 

 

It takes the dye beautifully and produces lovely bright colours and you get a beautiful heathering on the darkest areas from the bamboo. I'm really looking forward to dyeing more of this soon but for now there are just these two colourways to whet your appetite. 

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Crush DK

A small amount of Crush DK including some ready to ship skeins of the two new colourways and a few old favourites.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Extra Minis from the October mini skein club inspired by Middlesex - Kew Gardens and Lady Justice. Buy 4, get a 5th free if they are all the same price! Crush, Bloom and Coorie can be mixed and matched as well.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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What's are we up to over the next few months:

1st December - Shaw House Christmas Fair
7th December - Open Studio
11th December - December Shop Update
14th & 15th December - Christmas Wool Show, Birmingham NCC
20th December - Last UK Posting Date for Christmas
19th January 2025 - Waltham Abbey Wool Show 
 
Thank you for reading this shop update.. Its a small update this month but I'm moving next month's newsletter forward to 11th December so there's more time before the last posting date for Christmas and there will be lots more goodies then. Don't forget the Open Studio on the 7th! Take care, keep warm and keep crafting,

Rachel x
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