Monthly Archives: July 2009

Pure Knitting

By natalie | Published: 28th July 2009
I am not a speedy knitter. I am in awe of knitters who can produce a pair of socks a week, or even one sock. Making stitches, one after another is an almost meditative process, and perhaps this is why we all knit plain "vanilla" socks despite the fact that there are many interesting and [...]
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Gosh!

By natalie | Published: 24th July 2009
Well, the yarn has been flying off the shelves like nobody's business. I'm half way through packing orders. When I run out of yarn I'll send a "free shipping with your next order" voucher to anyone who misses out. I'll do this for any orders which go through before midnight tonight. The yarn is all [...]
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Free Yarn!

By natalie | Published: 23rd July 2009
Special offer. Buy two skeins of yarn or fibre or any combination and I'll send you a free skein of Croft semi solid until I run out of them! There are lots of single colours which would take forever to put on the site and I need that bedroom cleared by the weekend… New fibre, 70% alpaca and [...]
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Backage and Baggage

By natalie | Published: 22nd July 2009
The back is a little better today – Thank you for all the lovely emails. We need to discuss Baggage, or rather Bags. When I started The Yarn Yard three years ago I hunted high and low for recycled bags to post the yarn in. I eventually found some after much searching but they were at that [...]
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OUCH!

By natalie | Published: 21st July 2009
As many of you know if you follow me on twitter or visit the shed on ravelry I have been troubled by a bit of "backage" recently. It started about ten days ago, lasted for 24 hours and then came back again on Sunday. Not fun at all. I've been munching the ibuprofen and keeping [...]
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25% off !!!

By natalie | Published: 20th July 2009
I have been neglecting the blog somewhat since Woolfest. Things have been really busy, but not very photo-friendly. Changes are afoot chez YY.The first big change is that our elder son is moving out of his flat in Edinburgh and moving home for eight weeks between work and University. At the moment I, or rather [...]
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What’s in a name?

By natalie | Published: 10th July 2009
I once read somewhere that some actuaries in the USA looked at data to do with how long you live in relation to your name. They discovered that if you have unfortunate initials such as Arnold Samuel Smith or Boris Ulysses Marwick your lifespan was likely to be shorter than someone with more careful parents [...]
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Adam Cooks

By natalie | Published: 5th July 2009
My younger son Adam is 18 and has been doing a cooking course at college for the last six months. He starts the level 2 course in September and is looking for work at the moment, but in the meantime he has started a cooking blog. It's only a few days old, but there's nothing [...]
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Woolfest photos

By natalie | Published: 2nd July 2009
It's too hot to do much at all at the moment, so here are a few photos of Woolfest. The sign. Complete with collapsing boxes. I think they were wilting in the heat. I have some fibre left for the shop as well. A little colour. BFL in the Woolfest colourway. I took lots of these [...]
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