Due to personal circumstances, I’m heading up to Edinburgh tomorrow  and plan to be back on Thursday. Have poorly child to look after – no trip to Edinburgh – shop still open – next update Thursday 5th November. Normal service will resume shortly – really, I promise!

Shop update is Friday instead of Thursday this week. Same time, 8pm BST, but thought it made more sense to post parcels out on Monday, thus avoiding the threatened postal strike at the end of the week. In the SQuirkshop, I’m constantly striving to bring you new yarns, more colourways and where appropriate, more intense [...]

The last pair of Ripples (by Alabama Whirly) for Skein Princess’s friends completed. I hope she likes them – she chose the colours. I used Artesano Alpaca 4 ply in Teal with ripples of violet and black and the purple is a bit of Colinette. Four pairs down – next a pair of Snowflake Catchers [...]

Well, the good news is that the October club yarns went out this morning, a little earlier than usual – I’m hoping you’re going to love them – I’ve had some great feedback from visitors to the house over the weekend on the colours. For the second week in a row, I’m not well – [...]

Here at Skein Queen hq, I like to be able to offer a wide range of luxury yarn bases for you to try and thought I’d give you a preview of some newcomers waiting in the SQirkshop, bare and naked and ready to be dyed. The yarn information pages have all been updated on the [...]

I seem to inadvertently have started a craze for Ripples at Skein Princess’s school. Made these last weekend while travelling to and from Lyme Regis last weekend for one of her friends who likes green. I used SQ Plushness in Spring Buds and Blue Ice for the ripples. Then made these this weekend for her [...]

Running late this week due to rainy weather – the Desire and Wisp weren’t dry until this very morning The update is tonight at 8pm BST as usual. There will be no update next week as I’ll be dyeing up club yarn. Without further delay, just a few highlights: Mansionhouse – Little Desire Heathcliff – [...]

The lovely people at Innocent contacted me yesterday to spread the word about this year’s Big Knit campaign for Help the Aged and Age Concern. As with previous years, the idea is that we knit a little hat for their smoothie drinks which are then sold, resplendent in little knitted hat, through Sainsbury’s and 35p [...]

This weekend we had a day trip to the Jurassic Coast – World Heritage Site – to do a bit of fossil hunting as Skein Princess had been learning about Mary Anning at school. The museum was great – there was a talk on fossils by this guy who looked like one of those old [...]