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Last winter one of my regular customers walked in with a challenge. She wanted to give her mum a bouquet for Christmas not a flowery one, but one made of yarn. Could I help her? Well after quite a bit of head scratching I figured out a way to make a ball of wool sit on a 'stem' in just the right place and that was the beginning of our fabulous yarn bouquets. Each yarn bouquet I make is different, there are no two the same so you can guarantee the lucky person you are gifting one to will never...

A lot of things have been happening in the shop just recently and I thought I would take 5 minutes to give you a quick update on all the new yarns and everything else that has arrived in our shop. But before I do that I just want to mention we had to rearrange the dye your own yarn with The Knitting Goddess due to illness and the session will now take place on Saturday 30th September and we now have two spaces available one in the morning and one in the afternoon (although I may be able to juggle...

We have teamed up with Crafty Owls at Ossett to offer an evening session at our shop to paint your very own yarn bowl. This is something completely different to what we would normally offer but I thought it would make for a very interesting evening, I will put my hands up now I can't paint to save my life. So if you fancy having a go at painting your very own yarn bowl you need to book a place here for the paint your own pottery yarn bowl session on Monday 25th September. All materials are provided along with refreshments....

So as we all know cake yarns are everywhere just now and there's loads to choose from, in fact we stock at least 5 different cake yarns from major manufacturers as well as some from independent dyers. So why choose a Rico Wool Degrade? Well for starters it has a whooping 800 metres of double knit yarn on a cake and it has wool in it! For me the best thing is it gradual fades from a dark colour through to a light colour and let's face it if you spend anytime on Raverly at all you will know that...

Well go on you now what I am going to say Christmas and yes I know it's only July but in reality if you are planning on knitting gifts for Christmas you really need to be thinking about and dare I say even get started. Let's face it you have 5 months or so to get crafting and you never have as much time as you think you will. So to start with you need to make a list of people you are planning on knitting/crocheting/crafting for and then sit and think will they really appreciate it? Once you've rewrote...