Last Saturday saw Skein Queen and the outcasts heading to Chelsea Town Hall for wemake London craft fair. Mel (melarnomade) and Barbara (wildfennel) with Sue (halfandhalf) in the background setting up our stand. Barbara, Mela and Mel showing off our wares. Sue chatting about her beautiful cushions (I bought the one with the turquoise and [...]

I hope you all had a relaxing festive season and are ready and raring to meet whatever 2009 has in store for us all. We had a lovely Christmas in the SQ household – really relaxing with plenty of time to spend building jigsaws, eating way too much, going to the Panto and watching Christmas [...]

One last post before Christmas just to say a very Merry Christmas to you all – customers, friends, readers and dippers-in – thank you all for coming by to my humble blog and for putting up with my bletherings and yarn obsession. I really do feel lucky to have met so many fantastic people and [...]

Unfortunately, due to this dark, dark wintry night, I am unable to bring you any photos of tomorrow’s shop update. And I wanted to show you all the Opulent, and the Elegance; the extra large skeins of Plump Plushness and the Mellow; the Blissful and the Blush, but it’s too, too dark for decent photos [...]

This is last year’s mantlepiece display for a bit of festive cheer – sorry you couldn’t all come round for some nice mulled wine and a few nibbles… Now, let’s see if I can remember how to blog – it’s been a while, hasn’t it. Are you in a Christmassy mood yet? We went to [...]

OK, before you read on, I have to warn you, this is an (almost) yarn-free post – other than to say I’ve spent the evening skeining and skeining with a bit more skeining. And to just say I’m planning on putting together a 12 Days of Christmas “collection” (the word collection being totally tongue-in-cheek) of [...]