East London...we have arrived! And other bits and bobs.

Lots of new pictures up on our page and I've finally put some up on my work knitting group's page.

In other news, we can now be found at Chatsworth Road Market every other Sunday which makes for a busy busy weekend as we do Archway on the Saturday and then Chatsworth the same Sunday.

We've been there twice now, this Sunday will see me set up for the first time and I'm a little scared. It's a lovely market with a friendly atmosphere. It's quite local but people do come specially and I think what really helps it out is that the shops that line each side of the road/market are also open and it just so happens that lots of these are cute little cafés so it's a good place to come and hang out and meet friends.

And I was lucky enough to be visited by some friends, here's Beccie posing in front of the stall strategically so that Marcia isn't in the photo!

There are lots of food markets, I FINALLY got that scotch egg I'd been hankering after for months (long story) but then I wanted something that I saw one of the workers at one of the cafés eating (which is also a great French deli) AND then I wanted what one of my friends was eating which was a burger with bacon and chimichurri which he said was absolutely amazing. I'm afraid I've not done well on getting names of shops and stall but I'll try to do better this weekend.

I also bought and amazing black dress with a gold print on it, I thought it would be too small for me but I couldn't resist and it turns out I can JUST ABOUT squeeze in to it! It was only a tenner and I just fell in love with the print, I plan to wear it to my office Christmas do which I always like to make an effort for (even though all the scientists around me, with one exception, don't tend to).

Phewee

I hear we're going to hit 30 degrees today! Hooray....apparently I'm vitamin D deficient so a little bit (or a lot) of sunshine is JUST what the doctor ordered.

Well, it's been a stressful few days here at one half of sosusie HQs, results day came and went and so did my son's first and second choices of university. He's got in to somewhere good and he's happy but we did have a couple of nail biting days.

I'm looking forward to spending the day on the market, relaxing, chatting to customers and other stall holders and hopefully a few friends will pop down. I think I might make a little bit of lemonade to take along to share with friends as we sit on the deck chairs.

I'm about to have a quiet half hour getting on with one of the many projects I'm working on at the moment, a green jumper in Artesano Superwash DK, the photos I have aren't very good and neither are the ones of the jumper that I'm trying to copy so I'll try to sort out some better ones to put up here.

Susie

New wools

I'm very excited....I've just been with the Rico Rep and have ordered LOTS of beautiful new wool including some that are rather a departure from our usual offerings.....

I don't think I'll have any in time for this Saturday but some will definitley be there the next time we're at Archway.

A couple of other things in the pipeline, to be revealed soon.

Susie

Two years down and ready for the next one.

Well, our second birthday came and went. It's been a tough year both personally and in terms of the business. Things have picked up since we went back to alternate Saturdays and we're certainly both enjoying ourselves more again now we're back to working the stall together. We also had to say bye to one of our lovely and most loyal of customers, Chiharu, who went back to Japan. Chiharu would visit us every week and would help out now and again, it's really weird not seeing her.

Both Marcia and myself have had some pretty big challenges to face and it is nice to let our hair down (so to speak as neither of us really has the kind of hair you imagine when you think about letting your hair down) and hang out at the market especially as the weather hots up and the sun begins to shine.

Here's a picture of our rather excellent Royal/Team GB bunting for which we used Brigantia Luxury Aran.

Marcia knitted all the triangles (I only managed two and a half in the time she did about 40!?) and I darned in all the ends and put the bunting together. We've tried to produce bunting before but I've not been happy with the colour selection but this works incredibly well.

It's our birthday!!!!

We're now two years old, I can't believe it, and to celebrate we're offering 20% off all yarns for today only. Yes that's right....snap up some beautiful Fyberspates Scrumptious or the gorgeous Manos Serena, a blend of the finest baby alpaca and pima cotton, for a fraction of the price you'll pay anywhere else (this is an unsubstantiated claim and not a price promise!!...c'mon we're a tiny tiny business we can't be getting in to that malarky).

We're also debuting our new Jubilee/Team GB bunting - well, we will be once I get my arse into gear and head over to join Marcia. Photos to follow....

Couple of new projects and stall news

So I've put three new projects up, one in Customer Projects and the other two in sosusie yarns projects.

We've ordered some gorgeous Manos Wool Classica which will be the first time that we've stocked it so we hope you like it and we've also order a few shades in the new Manos Serena which is a featherlight 3ply pima cotton/alpaca mix.

******NEWS******

sosusie yarns will be going back to every other week at Archway Market giving us more time to concentrate on getting the online shop up and running. We're at Archway tomorrow and next Saturday and then every following other Saturday.

We'll also be attending a few craft/Christmas fairs over the next couple of months. Our Calender has all the relevant information on where we'll be and when.


******STUDENT DISCOUNT******
We now offer a student discount on production of a valid student card of 10%.

As promised - new wools

So here are some photos of the new wools we have.

Three new autumnal shades in Manos Silk Blend:

And four in the brilliant new Artesano Superchunky:

Marcia has been knitting

So, I'm still pretty rubbish at blogging so here's the only way I can work out to let you know that I've published new photos on our sosusie yarns projects page.

Have you been knitting with our yarns? We'd love to post pictures of what you've knitted so please send them in to us as sosusieyarns at googlemail.com - thanks!

Well Oiled Festival

It was a great day and Lauren rallied the troops perfectly - the ladies and men of the Stroud Green Knitting and Drinking Group (not correct title) did well serving teas, juices, scones and cakes as well as teaching several people to knit and make pompoms.

Two Festivals and gorgeous new wool

Hello all,

sosusie yarns will be at two festivals tomorrow, The Archways Market Feel Good Festival which is on from 10am to 5pm and the Well Oiled Festival which is on in Finsbury Park from 1pm to 8pm (though sosusie yarns will be packing up before that unfortunately as Susie has prior plans for the evening).

Marcia will be at Archway Market and sosusie yarns will be running knitting lessons for anyone interested. Susie will be at Finsbury and will be running knitting lessons as part of a bigger WI type craft stall entitled Crafternoon Tea where there will also be tea and cakes we hope.

Assuming the weather holds out both events should be really good fun, goodness only knows that they were last year!

In other news - our gorgeous Artesano superchunky order has arrived just in time for the festivals - hooray!

Susie

Wool Week special offer

Morning all, just loading up the car to head off to the market but wanted to post a little treat for Wool Week....we're offering a 10% discount across all stock today on the stall plus one customer will win one of our beautiful new autumnal Manos Silk Blends!

There's loads going on around the country for this so do check out the link and see where your passion for wool could take you this weekend.

Susie
xx

Making up

Aargh - I cannot get away with it anymore. I have several projects that are basically finished ie they're knitted and blocked and they just need sewing up. I will endeavour to get on with at least one today and post pics later.

In other news we've just taken delivery of some gorgeous new autumnal colours in the Manos Silk Blend - photos to follow and we've finally got our mitts on a beautiful superchunky yarn. We've been looking for a suitable one for a while now and at last we've found one - or rather Artesano has started to produce one. It's not out yet but is due to drop within the next week or so.

Things I'm working on

I've got three main projects on the go at the moment:

Please note that the links in this post will only work if you are logged in to Ravelry. If you're not a member yet do go and join, it's free and it is fantastic.

Aidez by Cirilia Rose which I'm knitting up in our Brigantia Luxury Aran in 796,

Jacket with moss stich bands by Debbie Bliss in Rooster Baby (which knits to exactly the same tension as Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino and is our gorgeous alternative to an equally gorgeous yarn) in 409.

And this little will, I'm sure, eventually be a beauty that I'm designing using our Rosarios4 Regata Cotton in 69.

Little gifts are sometimes the best.

I won't lie to you, I've been struggling with doing the stall recently. Things have been very slow at the market since winter and what with all the family stuff I have going on at the moment sometimes it's an effort to drag myself out of bed and load up the car and set up the stall. And then a friend pops by for a quick natter and a knit or one of our regulars pops by for a chat and I remember how lucky I am to be able to do this. On Saturday I was visited by my friend B and a couple of my lovely customers, Chiharu (whose knitting can be found Chiharu's hats) and Claudia who brought me a small gift - four plump, juicy, sweet plums just picked from her tree. Ahhhh...perfection. Thank you Claudia.

Saturday 23rd July

Had a lovely day on the Market on Saturday. The weather was fair for a change and I had lots of visitors - the promise of cake luring friends to come and sit and chat and knit.

Here are some of our visiors:

It seems that lots of people are interested in a sosusie yarns knitting group so I'll be turning my head to making that happen soon.

We are again getting lots of requests for knitting lessons. We're always happy to teach people the basics on the stall if we have time and the weather permits sitting out and of course if you're working on a project and need a bit of help we can do that (usually).

Oops x two

Apologies to anyone who turned up on Saturday to see us, I was meant to be on the market and unfortunately was rather under the weather and unable to make it. We've been going over a year now and we have never missed a week so I feel really bad about it especially as it was Marcia's birthday on Saturday and I was meant to be doing the stall so she could have her birthday off. Anyway, onwards and upwards.

I was just getting back into the blogging, both here and on my personal blog, taking terrible photos and putting up less than beautiful posts when my father was taken ill at the end of March and my sister and I have been rather taken up with him since then. It's time to get some semblance of normality back in my life though and part of that is getting back on track with the blogging and the stall.

I'm off to Sally Bourne in Crouch End tomorrow morning, it's closing down and I'm hoping to pick up some cheap knitting and crochet books that we can have on the stall. We've been wanting to have a range of books for a while but we wouldn't be able to sell them at anything approaching the Amazon type prices and as such, where our stall is, we'd find it difficult to justify the space and cost of them. So here's hoping that I can pick some up cheaply to pass on to you our lovely customers. I'm also hoping to pick up some beautiful fabrics so that I can make some bunting to sell on the stall.

I'm really not into finishing things at the moment. I've been congratulating myself today because I managed not to start a new project. Doh! I have no less than six projects on the go at the moment some of which just need to be sewn up. Aargh.

Ravelry linking and weekend stall photos

So this weekend I finally managed to get it on Ravelry so that you can link to our shop page on Ravelry when you put in a project that you're working on using our yarns or when you want to add yarns from us to your stash etc etc. I'm really really happy about that.

Saturday on the market was really good fun, it was a lovely day and there were lots of people out and about. I greatly enjoy being next to Amy who sells excellent plants, I bought practically all her stall on Saturday now I have to plant it all, though I do miss the previous plant guys John and Hugh. The big knitting needles are intriguing people and there were lots of requests to buy some so I'll have to look into a stockist for them or maybe even get some sosusie yarns ones turned!

The big knitting is slowly growing.

The bunting seems to go down very well.

sosusie yarns, Amy's plants, Farmer Teds veg and beyond.

Amy's stall, beautiful plants very well priced.

Stunning Cosmos, I bought these.

May 14th

Early morning if 9.30am counts as early!

First few rows of big knitting.

Artesano Aran and Brigantia against a beautiful backdrop of Amy's plants.

May 7th

Saturday May 7th. 

sosusie yarns is one!!!!

Yes it is hard to believe but a year ago, on the 18th May, we had our first stall. It was a lovely sunny day and lots of our friends visited us and came and sat and knitted with us. I'll do a proper round up of the year but for now here are some photos of Marcia and I out on Wednesday celebrating our first birthday.

I couldn't resist these char sui buns described as soft and pillowy and so they were! mmmm hmmmmm.