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.