Check out our workshops!
Sunday Sessions
You can use this hour to learn something new - give knitting or crochet a go! get help with a pattern that's causing you grief, or get mistakes in your knitting sorted; this is your hour!
Make Do and Mend
Making the most of what we've got. Extending the life of handmade and shop bought treasures. And even adding flair and beauty to holes and stains! This workshop offers an overview of some really great techniques.
Graft Seam Bind Off Block
What is blocking? What is Kitchner or mattress stitch? All the essentials you'll want to add to your basket of knowledge if you're keen to add the perfect finishing touches to your knitting.
- Broken Pen
- Tusk
- Sandcastle
- +29
the Cardi Cocoon yarn kit
an exquisite bundle of yarns to complete the Cardi Cocoon
- Bronte
- Defying Gravity
- Ent
- +16
- Broken Pen
- Tusk
- Sandcastle
- +29
the Firebird Scarf Kit
Grab everything you need to knit this brand new pattern from local Auckland knitwear designer Black Cat Knit Co! Designed with our Legend yarn and named after one of our iconic colours, Firebird. Legend is a lush mix of Merino, Yak, and Silk - incredibly soft with that silky drape.
DIY that wardrobe!
We love helping you make beautiful things & sharing how fun it is. We're always here to help and cheer you on! Come in anytime, email, DM, join a workshop, register for a first Sunday, or come to our Thursday Maker's Nights. You'll get the hang of it and never look back!
Join us in store
Our First Fridays are over for the year, but exciting news: we will have late night every Thursday starting in mid Jan 2024. Great for some after work shopping or join in our free Thursday Night Makers' Group!
Let customers speak for us
So glad I stumbled across your yarn and it is fabulous. Can't wait to cast on for with the pooling yarn. Will be definitely back as the service was pretty quick. Keep up the great work.
Mint Mohair Silk Lace
This is my first time trying out this yarn on my toe-up socks. Love the quality, color and softness of it.
Thank you. Sent as a gift to a friend in need and she loved it. Beautifully dyed mini skeins that were sent so fast and with love.
Going to turn these gorgeous skeins of softness into a Smokeshow Shawl, free pattern on Ravelry…. Watch this space for results !!!
absolutely stunning loving the colours and the yarn is squishy goodness heaven
Love the yarn and the colours I purchased.
This is such a soft, lofty yarn to knit with. I'm loving the stitch shape, and using a 5mm needle it's producing a squishy, well-shaped fabric. New favourite!
Great workshop with lots of opportunities to play with all different yarns, colours, textures and gauges. And so much fluffy mint! I learnt heaps from Lester and it was great to chat with other knitters and exchange ideas for current and new projects. Would really recommend!
The yarn is very soft and the color is gorgeous.
This yarn is absolutely lovely. The color is sublime.
I am an avid mohair fan and have tried many brands, but this is by far the best mohair have ever knit with. It is extremely soft on the skin and it is heavenly to work with: silky smooth with a muted sheen. It is on the pricey side but well worth it and in such gorgeous hand died colours too, giving your projects a unique colour tone. Thank you, Lester, for supplying this gorgeous mohair in your store and especially for your labour winding it into balls for me. XXOO Sylvia
Beautiful wool knits up beautifully. Very fast service
Absolutely stunning
Absolutely stunning yarn and the colour is gorgeous. It not a colour that I normally go for but I loved it the moment I saw it. Such a joy to knit with.
Answers to Common Questions
Shipping
See our shipping page here.
Returns/Exchanges
We are unable to except returns but we can exchange unused, as new items. We offer a 'no yarn chicken policy' - buy an extra skein just in case, then exchange for new yarn for your next project if you don't need it.
Care
Some of our yarns are gentle machine wash, & some are hand wash only. Each listing will indicate which - but all yarns are dry flat.
We recommend a squeeze of lemon juice in your soak water to maintain the dye bond. We also recommend Eucalan wool wash which you can find here on our website.
Environment
We use professional acid dyes, dye to complete absorbtion, and wash any loose dye from our tools in mason jars. Once the jars are deeply coloured we use them to dye our one of a kind Mason Jar skeins. We keep our dyes out of the water system!
We participate in an international carbon neutral shipping program & and our mailer bags are compostable. We keep our packaging to a minimum, and use compostable or recyclable products whenever possible.
Social
We welcome everyone and respect individuality. We offer a safe and kind environment and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
Colourways
Our photographs represent our colours to the best of our abilities. Everyone's screens will interpret colours differently. If this is a concern, drop us an email or a text to discuss your needs.
We dye with artistic intention and attitude. Repeating each colourway with 'match the photo' exact precision isn't in our wheelhouse. We do have detailed recipes but use measuring spoons instead of jewellers scales.
Dyes vary, expecially since Covid forever changed shipping logistics. Even though we buy the same colours from the same vendor - the colour may be different, and this is out of our control.
For these reasons we always suggest you double check the quantity of yarn needed for your project.
