I read lots of reviews of yarns and noted the yarns that I had used and enjoyed and began approaching companies and distributors. Some companies I really wanted to work with completely ignored me but most of them took me seriously and didn’t judge a market stall on the Holloway Road to be too insignificant a concern for them, indeed one of the reps pointed out to me that one of his great regular customers started out her business as a stall and then an online shop and finally moved into ‘real life’ retail after some time. Getting samples of yarn in and shade cards was exciting but also frustrating because with my budget I couldn’t even get a fraction of what I wanted to. I decided that I would mostly order what I would like to buy, so, no novelty yarns and no acrylics! I decided to begin with as big a range of colours of cotton as I could afford, as I would be opening in summer, and a modest range of my other yarns.
Whilst most of the wools are hand wash only I did plump for a gorgeous new merino from Artesano which is machine washable.
Hello! I bought some Rico cotton from you a while ago and keep meaning to come back and see you but forgetting to do so - sorry! I promise I'll make an extra-special effort to come see you next time you're in Archway (3rd July?) - we're tragically short of decent yarn stalls/shops round here!
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Yes we're at the stall on Saturday. We're still waiting for the additional cotton colours I'm afraid but have some new Artesano Merino colours in.
Do come and see us and get using the cotton! I'm knitting a child's dress with it and it's a dream to knit with, not splitty like cottons often are.
Thank you
susie