Wool Shopping

Over the last few weeks Pam and I have been stocking up with lovely new yarns for our projects. Only fellow knitters will understand the feelings you get when you see a shop full of beautiful yarns!

We went to John Lewis last week and spent quite a lot of money on fabulous yarns, my favourite was Debbie Bliss Fez which is so soft and warm. Its mainly extra fine merino but has about 15% of camel hair added which is sumptuous.

Today we went to the Black Sheep Barn in Warrington www.blacksheepwools.com which is floor to ceiling yarns, threads, patterns and has every knitting needle and crochet hook you can imagine. It's like an Aladdin's Cave. We went in with very good intentions about sticking to our planned budget but unfortunately we failed - you just never ever know when you might need 12 balls of Sublime chunky merino tweed and it was such a bargain!



Can't wait to start knitting with this lovely yarn

 We spent the rest of the afternoon looking through our pattern books desperate to start new projects but with iron resolve back in place I am continuing with my Erika Knight 4ply baby bonnet and Pam has promised to finish her tea cosy and hot water bottle cover before she starts anything new.

I have spent the evening putting my wools away but as you can see I am rapidly running out of draw space - but it does look lovely.


I will need another chest of drawers soon!

Our next job is to take some new photos to kick start our folksy website and update our facebook page.

I will be back soon with some more news Sue x





Happy New Year

I have had a lovely few days with my grandchildren we celebrated last night eating lots of goodies and watching Ice Age 3.

Its now all quiet the house is empty and I am thinking about the year a head and how to kick start mine and Pam's business "sweetpea family" we have had a few good months with pre Christmas Fairs, our own Sweetpea @ home party and some bespoke commissions but we need to establish our market much more.

We predominantly design and knit accessories - scarfletts, snoods, headbands and hats are the best sellers. We also make other small gifts such as knitted cupcakes, lavender bags/birds/hearts, cushions and hot water bottle covers.

Over the last few months we have let our Folksy Shop lapse but we are hoping to build this up and possibly also look at setting up an Etsy Shop as well. We are also exploring other marketing tools such as Face book and maybe even Twitter which I find very hard to get my head around - but hopefully all of these things will help grow our business and generate interest.

Our headbands have been very popular and one has even been site seeing in New York!

 Elizabeth is all snuggled up in one of our best selling grey headbands

It would be nice if it got noticed on Wall Street.

I will blogg again soon and hopefully will have some more news to share about our marketing ideas 

Sue x