I’ve been busy producing this over the last couple of days:
It will take me a while to sort and wind the thread, as each skein has to be made by hand on this rather Heath Robinson contraption:
It’s basically an upended chair with a yarn swift fixed onto the seat, from which I can unwind a skein from the hank onto a niddy noddy (and the autocorrect wanted to change that to giddy body, which made me laugh). A niddy noddy is a hand-held frame that allows you to wind a set number of yards of thread into a skein. A somewhat ridiculous name, in my view, for a very useful gadget.
In the meantime, the shop is open for the remains of the last batch of threads and fabrics. A few announcements:
- The global price of silk and cotton has completely sky rocketed and I have no choice but to increase my prices when the new batch is listed. I’ve managed to keep prices the same for a couple of years now so an increase is probably overdue. The existing threads in the shop are still at the old prices, so last chance to buy at this price.
- Silk perle 3, extra-fine silk, and extra-fine cotton will all be discontinued when current stocks have gone. Silk boucle is currently under consideration but if I can no longer buy it at a reasonable price then that may well be up for the chop too. I haven’t dyed any more silk boucle in this batch, so what’s in the shop is all there is for now.
- SLLD and SLLU fabric packs will be discontinued when current stocks are exhausted. Commercial fabrics have increased in price as well, and I have to buy the fabrics for these packs at retail prices because I don’t have the means to store wholesale quantities. I’ll continue to offer general fabric scraps packs when I can, and these will probably have broadly similar content to the SLLD packs.
- I am sorry that I am currently unable to post items to Northern Ireland or Europe.
I don’t know how long it will take to get these fabrics and threads processed, but I would estimate they could be ready somewhere towards the end of the month.
Have a wonderful weekend while I attempt to find a way up the thread mountain. The colour-coded tags that you can see in the picture, by the way, are knitting markers and they’re there to tell me what kind of thread it is. It can be hard to tell what’s what when it comes out a different colour but these make it easy to see at a glance.
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That\’s a whole lot of work for you there! Worth it though as your threads are fabulous – look forward to the new batch. Take care and see you at the Zen workshops later this month. Regards. Ade
thanks so much 😊 Yes, it does take time and I have to take frequent breaks because of repetitive strain, but it will be done eventually. Looking forward to Zen too, it’s my first time.
Do you ship to the US?
Yes, I can ship to the US but you may have to pay import duties and/or tariffs. Please read the information for overseas customers in each listing – thank you