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Town End Yarns is moving back to the Lake District at the end of November. The last date for placing orders which will be sent out before the move is 24 November.
I will start sending out orders again as soon as I can, sometime in the first week of December.
Town End Yarns is closed from 20th to 26th September 2023. Online orders placed from 19th September will be posted out when I reopen.
I will be at Yarndale in Skipton over the weekend of 24-25th September with a small selection of socks and yarn. You will find me on the Wooltops stand, D15, where I’m helping out.
Town End Yarns is closed from 7th to 17th August 2023. Orders placed online from 6th August will be sent out when I reopen.
Town End Yarns is closed from 25th to 30th May 2023. You may still place orders online which I will send out on 1 June.
Kobolt by Sarah Solomon was designed for a Woolfolk Merino/cotton yarn, but I’ve knitted it up in my Blue faced Chunky yarn in Olive. I really like Sarah Solomon’s designs and I’ve a couple waiting in my project queue. I’m a 34″ chest and I knitted the 2nd size. I had to go down a needle size to obtain the correct gauge and the jumper has ended up slightly smaller than the pattern. I’ve short arms and hate over-long sleeves, so I knitted them a bit shorter than described in the pattern. The design is knitted flat in pieces, in a traditional bottom-up manner with a slip-stitch selvedge to make sewing up neater. I particularly like the wide turtleneck and the raglan shaping. As it’s a chunky yarn, the jumper knitted up really quickly.
To buy the pattern from the designer on Ravelry, click here.
The jumper took 7 100g skeins of my Chunky yarn.
Town End Yarns is closed from 14th to 22nd March 2023. You may still place orders online which I will send out when we re-open.
2 January 2023 – the backlog of deliveries seems to be clearing and parcels are being delivered more quickly.
Sacks of orders that I’ve dropped of at Frome delivery office are sometimes being sent to Bristol deport for sorting without being scanned. Bristol is now so full due to the strike action by staff that these parcels are stuck there for now.
Please don’t order from us if you need yarns in a timely manner. I’m packing as fast as I can, but have no control over delivery timescales.
You can buy this pattern from the designer on Ravelry.
I wouldn’t normally crochet in an aran weight woolly yarn, but I’ve made this throw using Alpaca with Shetland. It’s the simplest pattern ever, so an ideal project for watching the TV to. It looks like a woven waffle weave and you can make it any size. My limitation was making sure it didn’t get too big to fit inside the washing machine. Once I had finished it, I gave it a wash in the machine on a 30 degree wool cycle with short spin. I dried it flat and when it was 99% dry, it had a quick blast in the tumble drier to tighten up the stitches and fluff it up a bit. It’s beautifully warm and cosy.
I used about a kg of yarn for this project. I might make it again using a DK weight yarn.
We will not be sending out any orders between these dates. We will be picking up emails.