Skein Queen: new yarns

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Friday, 27 March 2009

Meet Flossie Bear

Made with Lotus Yarns Cashmere Soft in Oatmeal (MC), Ruby, Hot Pink, Chocolate, Lime and Sugar Pink. A Tuck-Under-the-Armable kind of a bear and ever so soft.

I based her on an old flat teddy that Skein Prince took everywhere with him until a fateful day when he was six and left him on a coach in Spain. He was called Flapjack was part of the family in a strange and slightly bizarre way. We left a missing poster and our address back in Spain, in case he ever turned up, but he's still on the missing teddies list.

You may notice that there have been some changes to the Yarn Types in the right-hand side column. Divine and Endure have been discontinued and the new yarns being introduced are:

Decadent - handspun cashmere - approx. DK weight
Duchess - superfine alpaca/merino - DK weight

And the following three have appeared in the shop previously, sometimes as guest yarns, but I'm adding them permanently to the range:

Glister - 100% silk - laceweight
Finesse - merino/silk laceweight
Squash - tightly spun superwash merino - sock weight

Also Desire will now come in two sizes - 100g as usual and also Small Desire in 50g skeins which comes in at approx. 112m.

Friday, 25 July 2008

Brand new Squee! Sock Clubs for autumn

The next batch of sock clubs will be starting from September for a three-month period once again. I’ve emailed the original members to see if anyone would like to rejoin and they have until midday BST 7th August to confirm if they would after which date, I’ll open up any places left to anyone interested on a first-come-first-served basis via email (debbieorr.home@googlemail.com). I’m sorry, I can’t accept any requests before 7th August as I don’t know how many places there will be.

I’m hoping to open up a few more places than before by not doing any custom orders during the autumn months.

We still have the Plushness club which will be based on a theme of Stately Homes - think mazes, peacocks, high tea, lakes and swans. You can choose if you prefer the yarn simply twisted up so you can see the colours separately or reskeined to mix all the colours up prettily.

And I’m introducing a new yarn to replace Endure called Encore. It’s machine washable 75% superwash BFL 25% nylon - comes in 100g skeins of 465 yards and is softer than Endure. Absolutely perfect for socks. (Endure will still be available in the shop until stocks run out).

The Encore club will be based on the theme of the Lemony Snicket books - A Series of Unfortunate Events. So colourways could be influenced by anything from Lake Lacrimose to the Reptile Room. As with Plushness, you can choose if you’d like the yarn reskeined or not.

Both clubs work out at $68 or £34. Shipping will be $18 (international) or £7 (UK). Payment is at the start and you receive one skein of yarn by the last day of each month (Sept, Oct and Nov.)

Hope it’s as much fun as the summer club :)

I'll blog a reminder nearer the time.

It's been a wee while since there was last any yarn to show in this corner of blogdom, so thought I'd show you a selection of just blues from the last custom order batch:

Soft Cornflower in Opulent

River Thames in Opulent

Powder Room Blue in Plushness

Proud in Wisp

And the sharp-eyed amongst you may have noticed a couple of new yarn bases which have been added to the SQ repetoire. More details to follow, but apart from Encore, there's also a pure BFL named Blissful and a new merino/bamboo called Bamboozle.

I'm aiming for a shop update towards the end of next week.

We're off to Dorset tomorrow to visit friends and Skein Prince is off to Scout camp so yet another busy weekend. I NEED some knitting time!!

Happy holidays to anyone off on vacation this week x