Hi Fanklers,

I’m writing this from the dining table which is covered in papers and knitting, with my daughter across from me, behind the laptop screen, trying to do her S1 History class from home. My hubby is in the office working remotely. Never has there been a time when we are more reliant on electricity and internet accessibility!

This is a trying time for anyone with a business, and I’m finding this a whole new experience, as I only opened my shop in Prestwick last August (2019). My goal for my first year was to break even - this has been abandoned for now; how on earth could we know that this international emergency would put the kibosh on everyone’s future plans? My main focus is to try to remain viable, and try to persist as a community asset. I have already built up a number of regular customers and we have a wee community here which has been meeting up for a Sunday afternoon, until recently.

So with that in mind, I am dipping my toe in the online wool world. It is very much a learning process, as the older I get, the harder I find it to try and cram new knowledge into my wool-filled skull (especially when the knowledge is tedious admin website stuff and not lovely new knittery stuff).

Bear with me, and I’ll try to keep my mistakes to a minimum.

Feel free to comment on, improve, constructively criticize and share my efforts to get lovely yarn out to the lovely knitters and crocheters of Scotland.

Cheers.