Twas a whirlwind of a weekend. On Saturday morning, I had my second spinning lesson and learnt lots of interesting techniques including spinning a thick and thin slubby yarn, spinning from silk caps, adding silk noils and throwsters to fibre, spinning a boucle yarn and (this made me laugh) – how to spin a fun [...]

One week to go until the Trunk Show at Socktopus in London – so I’ve been dyeing up lots and lots of yarn for it. If you’re in the London on Sunday 17th May, this is a small sample of what you may find: Squash, Elegance, Opulent, Blissful, Little Desire and Finesse with the rest [...]

I’m quite proud of this. It’s the first bit of spinning I’ve done with my wheel fixed and working properly and I finally feel comfortable with spinning and really enjoying it, so much so, I’ve signed up for a course with the local guild to learn more. The fibre was from limegreenjelly – 100% merino [...]

Why no yarn in the shop? Well, this little feast of Plushness will be on its way to Socktopus and will be for sale at Ally Pally. The first installment of Squee! Sock Club went out and seems that all the club members have received their little purple parcel, so here’s the Plushness club yarn [...]

Life is running away with me again – no time to say hello, goodbye. What news, what news? Loads going on in the yarny world this week. All I can say for now is that there will be a bunch of Plushness on sale at Ally Pally at the Knitting and Stitching Show which runs [...]