Stock Updates

In our last post, we promised to show you some more of our latest Coolree Yarns delivery. We're as good as our word, and here's the new laceweight. It's new in a couple of senses: there's beautiful colourways that we haven't seen before, but there's also new bases. One of the best things of working with talented hand-dyers like Coolree's...

Today brought us flurries of snow and unseasonable cold, but we didn't mind a bit. You see, it also brought us a generous consignment of hand-dyed beauties from Coolree Yarns in County Wexford. The image above shows just a few colourways of the 50/50 merino/silk fingering. There's lots more in the shop, though - there's blues and greens and yellows,...

Well, semi-solid, to be precise. We've often talked here of Araucania Botany Lace in these posts, and it continues to be a favourite. So you can imagine our glee when we found out that it's now comes in semi-solid colours as well as the variegated shades we fell in love with. There's six semi-solid colours, and you can see them...

A sure sign of the season changing is the arrival of new pattern books and sample garments. We've just taken delivery of the latest offerings fromn Sublime, and no sooner were they out of the box than we wanted to share them with you. First of all, there's the sweet cardigan pictured above. It's called Plisse, and it's from the...

We're big fans of Valentine's Day in these parts - it gives us a chance to wax romantic and think of hearts and flowers, at least for one day out of the year. This year's no exception, and we've got something rather special to celebrate it. We've got some skeins of an exclusive laceweight in a colour called, suitably, "Valentine",...

Or rather: getting rid of it. Everyone's got a garment or two, handmade or not, which has pilled sadly and no longer looks its best. Well, we're pretty sure that we've got the answer. It's called The Gleener, and we got a delivery this week. Above you can see a picture of it in use - you simply brush the...

Aren't these the prettiest needles? They're made by Peace Fleece, and we're recently got a new delivery. They're made of smooth and strong birch wood, with ends hand-painted in the brightest, cheeriest colours. They come in two lengths, 10" and 6". The 10" needles come in two sizes, 4.00mm and 5.00mm while the 6" ones are 5.00mm. The shorter ones...

A couple of weeks ago, we showed you some of the new Louisa Harding yarns and patterns, and they've been proving very popular. We're happy to tell you that we've got the Amitola and Orielle pattern books back into stock this week. That's not all, though - we've also got two other collections from Louisa. The first, called Sorella, uses...

That pretty corsage arrived into the shop on Saturday, and we pounced on it with glee. It, or rather its constituent parts, comes in a neat little box, with several flowers of different shapes and all the notions you need to assemble it. As it turned out, we were looking for a birthday present for a good friend, so we...

(Image © Copyright Anne Burgess and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence) What a handsome character! Let us introduce the Blue Faced Leicester, a splendid breed of sheep that's been developed in the North of England over the last hundred years. They're big and strong, with excellent staple length (how long the individual fibres of the fleece are),...

This week, we took delivery of a brand new range of yarn, and we're rather excited about it. Hand-dyed by Coolree Yarns in a few miles outside of Wexford town in an 18th century farmhouse, this is a really beautiful product. Alex is the talent behind this stunning new line, and says: "I do produce some quite lively, contrasting colourways...

A couple of posts back, we promised you that we'd show you some more of Louisa Harding's new yarns for the coming season. Well, here's two of them: Orielle and Amitola. Orielle is a DK yarn, made from baby alpaca with a whisper of polyester for strength. It comes in a range of pastel and jewel tones, as you can...

We've talked about Louisa Harding Mulberry Pure Silk here before - it's been used to astounding effect in FOs like Nikki's wedding dress and KittyKahBoom's Aeolian shawl, and we think it's one of the loveliest yarns we stock. It just got even lovelier. Mulberry now has a hand-beaded counterpart, available in colours to match the original. The beads are subtly...

Aren't these charms the dotiest thing? We've just got them into the shop, and we're still coming up with more things to do with them. You could make stitch markers from them (at 2 centimetres long, they're an excellent size), of course, but with a bit of ribbon, they'd brighten the wrapping for a small crafted gift, or you could...

Sometimes, it's nice to be able to declare oneself to be a knitter, in the subtlest way, even in the absence of yarn and needles. Well, if you're looking for a little gift for yourself or a fellow knitter, we have just the ticket. These little pendants are hand made in County Wicklow. They come with a fine sterling silver...

We've recently started stocking Knitpro Cubics interchangeable knitting needle tips. They're very attractive objects, made from the same rosewood effect birch as the Swarovski crystal crochet hook set or the deluxe interchangeable needles. You might very well want to try a set of these just for the novelty value. But that's not the only reason for considering them. Claims have...

For some time, we've known that this yarn was coming into the shop and we've been so excited. It's here now: Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace, in twenty (twenty!) colours, and our excitement turns out to have been entirely justified. As soon as Jacqui got her hands on some, she started a Swallowtail shawl, and it's on display in the shop...

We've got lots of new yarn to show you today (including one that's very exciting indeed!), but first, isn't that a splendid bell? It's one of the tree decorations that have been handed in for our competition. For once, it's a pity that this blog doesn't come with an audio track, because that's a proper cat bell that rings! It's...