Here it is again – once-a-year sale starts Saturday 3rd January. 15% off everything in the shop for one week only. SQ x

One last post before Christmas just to say a very Merry Christmas to you all – customers, friends, readers and dippers-in – thank you all for coming by to my humble blog and for putting up with my bletherings and yarn obsession. I really do feel lucky to have met so many fantastic people and [...]

“And so this is Christmas. And what have you done? Another year over. A new one just begun.” How was your 2008? Are you glad it’s over and roll on 2009? Or was it a good one for you? For me, it was a great year for Skein Queen. Getting to “meet” new customers from [...]

Hands up – who hasn’t had a seasonal cold this week and if not, how have you escaped? I’ve been feeling so sorry for myself these last two nights, I’ve gone to bed early with a book – something I haven’t done for a while. I’m about as slow a reader as a knitter – [...]

If I can stop eating these Maltesers and figure out why Blogger is insisting on underlining everything, then I’m planning a shop update throughout the day. OK, so I fixed the underlining thing, now I’ve lost all my colour settings *sigh*. Here’s your preview – some favourite SQ colourways, a couple of Christmas-inspired colourways and [...]

Unfortunately, due to this dark, dark wintry night, I am unable to bring you any photos of tomorrow’s shop update. And I wanted to show you all the Opulent, and the Elegance; the extra large skeins of Plump Plushness and the Mellow; the Blissful and the Blush, but it’s too, too dark for decent photos [...]

Thank you to everyone who mosied on over to the new yarn emporium to browse, register or purchase. I need to get restocked with hand-dyed but there’s still some pre-dyed cashmere and bamboo in there awaiting the right owner. We had a few PayPal issues over the weekend, but they have now been resolved. This [...]