Oh boy. I could knit with this collection of mohair for the rest of my life and be perfectly happy! This week’s update kinda came together by accident but I’m so thrilled with the direction it ended up taking. It’s May. Can you even believe it!? For me that means looking towards the summer. We always take a solid 6-8 weeks off in the summer, either to spend time with our family in Nova Scotia or, in the case of last summer, to prep to buy and sell a house. How relaxing does that sound!? Not.
This year we have no idea what the summer will hold but we know that we will be doing our very best to fit in some R&R one way or another. So…. what does that have to do with May? Well, call me optimistic but May means that we’re officially close enough to summer that we can start counting down by weeks rather than months! So, with only a “few” weeks left until summer we’re focussing on ready-to-ship updates. We stacked the first third of the year with pre-order updates and now we’re switching gears. When we do pre-orders I like to allow for a solid 4-6 weeks turnaround time and as the countdown to the summer commences that window just disappears. So, ready-to-ship updates it is! I’m hoping to have a new inventory in the shop every week. I’m aiming for Wednesday’s at 9am ET.
This week I told Chris to “dye a bunch of mohair in a bunch of colours” and this is the selection he came up with! There are a few more colours that didn’t make this photo only because I was running out of space and they didn’t flow quite as nicely but this is the meat of potatoes of the available colourways. Isn’t she dreamy!? Tomorrow’s update will also feature a bunch of PureWash fingering weight yarn as well as a few odds and ends in different bases that I’ve had hanging around the office. I’m trying something a little bit different… I’m including the speckled colourways as part of my regular yarn listings. So if you’re looking for fingering weight yarn you’ll click on fingering and you’ll see all of the PureWash fingering we have available to order. All of our Core Collection colourways plus any speckles and OOAK’s will all be in the same listing. I’m hoping this simplifies things!
I have had countless, and I seriously mean that I’ve honestly lost count of the amount of ways I’ve tried organizing the shop, and no matter how super clear I think it is there is always room for improvement. My goal with the shop is for it to be easily accessible to everyone. You don’t have to be a TFA super fan or understand a complex system of updates and member only secrets in order to figure out how to place an order. That’s also my mindset when naming yarn bases, PureWash Fingering, DK, Worsted, Chunky and Sock may not be the most creative or cute names out there but even if you’re not familiar with my business or my bases you can find the weight you’re looking for fairly quickly. So, to shop, you go to SHOP, then YARN, and that’s it! I used to separate the Pop Up Shop from our Core Collection but I get why it could be confusing. So they’re all together now. I have to admit, I still get the occasional email from someone all in a tizzy because my website is so confusing and they don’t know how to navigate to my shop and I have to find a way to send them a reply that says “Click on SHOP” without sounding condescending… which is a real skill!
Sidebar - I’m so happy that I’m back to blogging again and I have a venue to come and write all this nonsense about shop organization. Thank you for being here for it!
So… shop update on Wednesday and then later this week: Rook Socks pattern! This is the first sock pattern I’ve published in a long time and it has me excited. I’m in a sock kinda mood!
My Rook Sock pattern will be published on Friday. Get your sock yarn ready!