Yarn sourcing

Where our yarn comes from

Four rules we buy by, and the road a fibre takes before it reaches your door.

Bought to be used, not stored

We do not keep a warehouse of yarn. What arrives is what an order needs, bought from spinners we already know.

The four rules below are how we decide what makes it into the shop, and what does not.

A stack of five folded knit sweaters in grey, brown tweed, mustard, ivory and cream, beside a single ball of wound grey-brown yarn with a loose thread trailing across a sunlit wooden surface

Yarn we can trace

We buy from spinners we have visited or been introduced to by someone we work with. If we cannot trace it, we do not buy it.

Natural fibres first

Natural fibres wherever the piece allows — merino, cotton, alpaca blends. Synthetics only where a baby knit needs to survive a washing machine.

Bought in small lots

We buy small and often rather than warehousing a year of yarn. It costs more and wastes less.

Only shades we stock

Every shade in the shop is a shade we hold. Nothing is listed that we would have to source specially and might not get.

From fibre to doorstep

  1. Fibre

    Fleece and cotton reach a spinner we already buy from.

  2. Spun and dyed

    It is spun and dyed into the eight shades we knit with.

  3. To the knitter

    We buy the lot the order needs and send it to the knitter.

  4. To you

    It comes back as a finished piece and goes out to you.

See what we knit with

Every yarn in the shop, and the pieces we make from it.

See what we knit with