Afternoon all,
Its been a funny time at Fankle Headquarters recently, the ups and downs and ins and outs of the pandemic have played havoc with everyone’s schedules. It’s been sometimes quiet here, some days its bubbling with folk, there is no rhyme or reason to it, it seems.
In either case, as long as everyone is staying safe and following the guidelines then we should come out of this more or less intact.
So its an ideal time to contemplate some quiet crafting, away from the insecurity and uncertainty of the outside world. With this in mind, the postponed Yarn Shop Day has been rescheduled for this Saturday (14th November) in the UK.
Our own wee part of the world will be offering free patterns, a cheeky wee bit of chocolate and the chance to enter into a draw to win a skein of luxury Rowan Sultano Fine - a glorious rich dark wine shade of silk, mohair and cashmere, which knits as a DK. There’s a very useful 225m in the skein, making it suitable for many accessories - and really you want to keep this close, its so soft, so a hat or cowl would be perfect.
All you have to do to enter the draw is make any sort of purchase and you will be able to add your name to the raffle. Draw will take place next Saturday (21st Nov) and you can be entered up until Friday 20th Nov.
You can visit the shop with your mask in place, following the guidelines, and you will be welcome all day. Then take your yarny goodness home to coorie in and shut the door on the outside world for a wee while.
Its tough to encourage folk to shop right now, but if you don’t it is doubtful whether the local businesses will survive much more of this. Many of our local businesses will deliver, or organise drop offs to suit you, many will have online ordering and electronic payments available, and every sale helps.
As a shop with an online presence, we are working on getting stock online (who knew it would be soooo fiddly and time-consuming?!) but you can always phone or message to ask if we have what you are looking for.
So after all that, I hope you are keeping well wherever you are, and I hope to see you in the shop soon :)
All the best,
Kathleen