Announcing the Great Big Skein Queen 2nd Anniversary Shop Update Thursday 11th June 8pm BST Introducing a brand new yarn base – Exquisite – merino, cashmere, nylon Proud Peacock in Exquisite – 2 skeins Lovebird in Exquisite – 1 skein (v. similar to Firebird but this one has more pink) Firebird in Exquisite – 1 [...]

In celebration of the fact that Skein Queen is celebrating two years in business on Thursday, I’ve decided to do a little name-the-yarn competition. All you have to do to win this free skein of Plushness (lambswool/angora/cashmere) is to come up with colourway name and leave a comment here on the blog with the name [...]

I haven’t got a huge amount of fibre to bring along to Socktopus on Sunday (I have got lots of yarn), but I thought I’d show you some of what I have got – any name suggestions are welcome. The top one sort of reminds me of my Apple Cider colourway. What do you think? [...]

Help! I can’t stop spinning. Especially when such temptation as this arrives in the post. The lovely and very generous Rockpool Candy got wind that I was under the weather and sent me these utterly gorgeous batts called the Hippy Dippy Ice Cream Mix and containing merino, banana, soya, silk and silk waste and get [...]