We had a very quiet, relaxing Easter in the SQ household – made a change from being on the canal boat this time last year – now that was stressful, especially when we couldn’t master the steering and ended up sideways in the canal with boats coming at us from either side! That was the [...]

After a squishy journey on the train with all the Ireland and England rugby fans who were travelling to Twickenham (Skein King was ever-so slightly disappointed with the result), we grabbed a quick lunch and split up. I had twenty minutes before the workshop began and I was determined to visit I Knit London on [...]

Two more Finished Projects have been added to the SQ website this week which I thought I’d share here too: Montego Bay scarf in Lavish – Jaana from Finland used two skeins of Lavish in Golden Plum to create this sumptious but cool, summery Montego Bay scarf. The pattern is by Amy R. Singer and [...]

For those of you not yet on my mailing list (ahem -and why not?! Seriously, it’s lovely to see it growing with more names every week), here’s a little peep at the shop update tonight: Spring Collection in Lavish – five skeins, one variagated and four solid colours to match Summer Bunting in Endure sock [...]

the Finished Projects page is live on the website here. It’s my very favourite thing to see what you’re making with SQ yarn, so it’s about time I shared…

This week I have been mostly knitting in French – ooo la la! My dear French friend, Sylvie, sent over a gift for the Skein Princess. Imagine my delight when I saw it was a knitting kit to create a cute little kid mohair grey and black cat, comme ca:Of course, she wanted to get [...]