Woo hoo! (Now calm down and stay professional) – the Skein Queen has been reviewed on the Lime and Violet Daily Chum blog – check it out here. Thanks, Peachy!

Would you like to see some more yarn temptation? For those of you on yarn diets, I say “pah” – blow the diet – indulge your passion. Life is for living. And for those of you on stashalongs, I say “nah” – forget about it – stashes are for adding to. (I kind of apply [...]

I just have to show you these first up:Aren’t they fab! Not my work, but a Dear Customer called Jo who knitted them in Skein Queen Sugared Almonds Plushness yarn: These were the first finished items I’d seen knitted up in my yarn by anyone other than myself – what a privilege. Jo’s made a [...]

Two days later, I’m finally getting around to putting the shop update photos on here: This is Clam (sold)This is OysterThis is Sour Fruits (s0ld)This is Empress (sold)This is Violet Pumpkin (sold)And this is Sugar Mice (sold)I guess it’s worth putting them up here for posterity and as a record for if any readers who [...]

As the shop shelves are looking incredibly bare, time for a shop update tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. Four skeins of lambswool, angora, cashmere in different colourways. Four skeins of cashmere/silk in a new colourway called Oyster. Three skeins of cashmere/silk in a new colourway called Clam. Other than that have completed three custom orders this week [...]

(This just looks weird and out of order now – it wasn’t blogger’s fault after all, it was Flock, the browser.) Well, the holiday is starting to feel like a distant memory already – the tan’s fading fast (factor 20 for the bod and 30 for the face this time round – what was I [...]

SQ is back in the country after a short, relaxing wonderful holiday. Straight back into it though as the shop has gone mad – have been lucky enough to have lots of buyers – but desperately need to restock and had a couple of custom orders to dye up hence an all-day dyeing session today.Can’t [...]