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:

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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.