Everything’s got out of hand here at Skein Queen hq lately. There’s been a revolution, partly linked with Britain’s Got Talent fever, and we’re all knitting Union Jack handwarmers as designed by the talented alabamawhirly. Alabamawhirly writes “These gloves were originally hand knitted by me from my own pattern whilst listening all the while to [...]

The new theme of the Plushness club will be The Queen’s Reading Room and will be based on my favourite books so the colourways will be inspired by a different novel each month. I’ll aim to release the name of the next novel a couple of weeks ahead in case you would like to read [...]

Tonight. More limited that usual supplies of each, but here you go: Golden Teal in Plushness Hidcote Blue in Plushness Linen Roses in Plushness Faded Roses in Plushness Strawberry Sorbet in Plushness Strawberry Shortcake in Plushness Caramel Creme in Plushness Charcoal in Opulent Tiger’s Eye in Blissful Strawberry Mojito in Blissful Olive Snook in Squash [...]

The plan is to have a shop update tomorrow evening. However, that means photographing all of the yarn, resizing the photos, adding them to the blog and shop with descriptions after I get back from the office tomorrow. It could be a late one!! Thanks so much to all the outcasts for a lovely evening [...]

Twas a whirlwind of a weekend. On Saturday morning, I had my second spinning lesson and learnt lots of interesting techniques including spinning a thick and thin slubby yarn, spinning from silk caps, adding silk noils and throwsters to fibre, spinning a boucle yarn and (this made me laugh) – how to spin a fun [...]

Thanks for all your interest in our new arrivals. Honey is a brilliant mum and they are thriving and getting bigger by the day. We have a home for the all black one, and a possible home for the black, white and ginger one and are keeping the little tabby. I’m trying not to get [...]

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? [...]

Honey had her kittens last night – three of them. They’re very dark in colour – one black, one very dark tortoiseshell with a bit of ginger and white on her leg and one tabby. If you look very carefully, you can see the tabby one in the bottom right-hand corner. The kids are thrilled [...]

One week to go until the Trunk Show at Socktopus in London – so I’ve been dyeing up lots and lots of yarn for it. If you’re in the London on Sunday 17th May, this is a small sample of what you may find: Squash, Elegance, Opulent, Blissful, Little Desire and Finesse with the rest [...]

.. and add some colour.. Once dry, carefully put it through the drumcarder, feeding it in little by little.. ..gently extract the little clouds of fluffiness.. .. and spin up the carded batt into yarn How much fun was this!! Now all I have to do is knit it to see how it knits up.