I know a man and he’s a very clever man at things like numbers and computers and all the things I’m no good at and he’s called Skein King (although that title may be a tad misleading given that every time he so much as touches a skein of yarn, it ends up in the [...]

First of all, click on Etsy, (only until Thursday 22nd Nov.) now scroll down to the bottom – yes, featured Etsy artist – that’s the wonderful Suzanne, owner of Jelly Leg’d Chicken gallery, aka Alabamawhirly and maker of the finest gloves in knittingdom. And I know, because I own a pair of her Dark Love [...]

OMG, so much has been happening that I have neglected SQ blog. First of all, I’m about 2/3rds through my second Chevron scarf using SQ Lavish in Fragrant Stocks and Turtle Dove. This will be winging its way down to Devon for the Hillcrest Studio Opening next week as another example of how my yarn [...]

Y’ouch! Went for my first mammogram today. After all those blog posts I read in October about checking your boobs etc, I took myself along to the GP and turns out I have a second benign condition to add to my first benign condition, which was diagnosed about nine years ago. The squished-boobs scenario was [...]

As Giorgio Armani recently said: “The defining change in luxury has been a move towards personalisation and customisation, and a growing desire for true exclusivity.” This quote is taken from an excellent article in the Sunday Times for 28th October called `The Birth of Nu-Craft’. I can’t help thinking that Etsy surely has to be [...]

Congratulations to Annette – she wins one free skein of her choice. And thank you to those of you who participated in the other 99 sales and for your continued support. I am still a bit flabbergasted as my original target was 50 sales by Christmas.

There’s some click-clacking being going on and two Dear Customers took the trouble to send me photos of their beautiful projects using SQ yarn. Lindy in Australia sent me these photos of her gorgeous scarf in Raspberry Mocha 2 ply cashmere/silk. She’s working a 2 row chevron repeat on 9/4.5 mm needles and I know [...]

for whoever is my 100th customer! One skein of your choice for the lucky winner. (Update – offer now closed – we have our winner.) You could win this:Poseidon Or this:Pegasus Or this: Medusa So good luck over at my Etsy shop which is here. The rules are pretty simple: if you buy more than [...]