I’m delighted to launch a new sock yarn this week. It’s very, VERY similar to Elinor, the same high twist, the same soft handle, but it has 10% nylon for a bit of extra strength and resilience. I’ve named it Jeannie, after my mother, who has those qualities in spades! It has 400 yards per […]

When you run your own business, you are regularly faced with decisions about opportunities, ways you could expand, diversions, and other ventures that will take up your time. A wise business person knows when to say yes, and when to say no. If you say yes to too many things, you spread yourself too thin. […]

As I hope you know, here at Posh Yarn, we try to keep our prices as reasonable as possible, since we want as many knitters as possible to be able to afford our yarn. But every year we have to do a review of our costs v. profits, and consider whether we need to make […]

We’re trying an experiment this week, in response to some requests from customers. Some of the yarn, instead of being sold in individual skeins, is being sold in sweater packs - 7 x 100g skeins, closely matched in colour. I say closely matched as a warning, as with any hand dyed yarn you really need […]

Do you remember the Winter Cottage mittens? I’ve just made the pattern available to everyone, and it’s free! The Ravelry link is here, and the pattern is here.

On a completely unrelated topic, I don’t know about you, but I don’t like change. I mean, I really don’t like it. I resist it with every fibre […]