News

7/12/25  SHOP CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS
It will reopen in a new website at 5pm on 1st February latest.  See you in 2026!

4/12/25  TWO BITS OF NEWS
Firstly a big THANK YOU to all of you who donated or pledged money to the recent Crowdfunder (see info below).  We closed having exceeded our stretch target of £8,000 and that will definitely give us enough headroom to get absolutely all the fleeces spun.  So many oof you I know also helped to promote the crowdfunder - so thanks for that too!
I've now finished sorting out all the manky fleeces and they are all now cleaned up, bagged up and weighed ready for sending off to the Mill this week - that has definitely been the hardest part of the work to date, with over a quarter of a tonne of fleeces wrestled with.
Secondly, we've now finished all of our yarn festivals for this year, the equipment is all stored away and I'll be closing the webshop from Saturday 6th December at 5pm until the same time on 13th January.  This will give me time for a holiday and a stock-take.  Orders will be accepted though up until 5pm on 6/12/25.
And in the meantime - Merry Christmas and a Guid New Year.

14/9/25  THE CROWDFUNDER IS  HERE
We've now launched the Crowdfunder to raise money so that we can spin our neighbours' fleeces, in the hope that we can raise enough - £6,000 - to send them off to the Mill in Cornwall.  As of today, we've raised £2,460 (41% of our target) which is absolutely fantastic, and way more than we thought.  People have been so generous!
In return for your donation, we are providing rewards which are (of course) yarny in nature.  From £20 upwards you will receive increasing amounts of the new yarn either dyed or undyed.  A real piece of wool with local provenance - grown and sheared within a mile of my home at the edge of the Lammermuirs in East Lothian.  I am dyeing a set of special colourways which will be unique to this batch of yarn and I warn you - they will be lovely and bright :)
PLEASE donate if you are able to.  I know that times are a bit tight at the moment. And if you can't donate, then pleas could you share the news f this Crowdfunder far and wide?  The more we raise, then the more of this wonderful fleece I can get spun and sent out to you.
The link for the crowdfunder is here ...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-us-spin-our-beautiful-local-yarn

14/8/25 HELP US WITH OUR CROWDFUNDER?
Now I could talk about sheep, and wool, for Scotland, and one of the things that has become very clear recently is that local farmers want their wool to have value in today's market.   All too often they spend more on getting it sheared than they are paid for it.  And some fleeces elsewhere just get dumped on the farm.  It's such a waste of a very brilliant product and people who love their sheep, want to show the world that wool has value.
This Crowdfunder will provide the funds to cover processing about 200kg of beautiful local fleece into amazing yarn.  The plan is to get a mix of woollen and worsted spun yarns from the Natural Fibre Company in Launceston.  Through the system of rewards for pledges,  you will be able to receive our wool either undyed or dyed, including some exclusive colours and bundles that are not on general sale, as well as some other little extras.  
We are hoping to launch the Crowdfunder at our stand at the Scottish Yarn Festival at the end of August, and we need to raise enough money to spin two years worth of fleeces!
I'll message again when we launch as we're really going to need all of your help to spread our appeal far and wide.

14/8/25  IMPORTANT NEWS FOR OUR US CUSTOMERS
We absolutely love our US customers, but we are about to have a new challenge.  From 29/8/25, the US government's new tariffs will apply even to tiny businesses like ours.  Now, we obviously can't afford to absorb those taxes, and we'll need to pass them on to our US customers.  That makes us very sad indeed.
So, we'll be looking at ways to clearly state (when you order) what those taxes are, and we'll ask you to pay these up front.  We'll then make sure that that that cost is paid (through our carrier) thus passing on the cost from US customers to the US government.  This will mean that our lovely customers should not then get any nasty surprises when the yarn enters the US or is delivered to your door.  Fingers crossed.  We're sorry that you are going to have to pay this.
This is going to take us a wee bit of time to work out, and we'll honour orders placed from the US up until 21st August.  We don't want any items to get caught up in the taxes in transit.  After that - we'll probably have to suspend shipping to the US just while we get things sorted.

 28/7/25 EVENTS UPDATE
We have three wool events coming up over the next two months, and I really would urge you to get tickets and come along to these if you can.
North East Wool Festival is on 9-10 August at Gosforth Racecourse and we've been very lucky to get a cancellation spot at it.  It's a new one to us, as previous attempts to attend have been thwarted by hospital appointments.  Really looking forward to it!  We are upstairs in the Gosforth Park Suite.
The Scottish Yarn Festival is celebrating its tenth birthday this year and tickets are selling fast!  It's on 30-31 August and in a new venue - Perth Concert Hall - and we always very much enjoy this event.  Grab tickets while you can!
Yarndale is on in late September (27-28) at Skipton Auction Mart, and we always love this event.  
Links to where you can buy tickets for all of these events can be fond on our Meet Us page
So, as you can imagine, August is going to be full-on busy washing, labelling and dyeing yarn and hoping I have enough skeins to see me through! 
In other news, I have been spending the last couple of weeks - where time permits - learning to sea-swim, and knitting a shawl for display on the stand.  It's a shawl I've knitted before - the Op Art Shawl by Sonja Bargielowska but this time in 4 ply yarn (Firth as main colour and Aikeyside as CC).

27/6/25  WEBSITE UPDATE
We've been lucky to attend some great shows this spring and early summer, and hope to be at two or three more in the autumn.  The Meet Us section of the site has been updated today. 
The new dyed DK and 4ply has sold well - with me selling it as fast as I put it out on sale, and will be up on the website soon.  I'm taking some first steps into natural dyeing and will show the results as soon as they are good enough ... I've had to temporarily take the Mega-Chunky (all shades) off the site as we've spotted a problem with the new batch we got back from the Mill.  Back soon we hope :)
The shearer is due with us next week, and I am already collecting from fantastic fleeces from my neighbouring farmers and shepherds! 

11/2/25  MAKING PROGRESS
The first batch of fleeces - all 94 kg of them - are now off to the Mill (this batch sent to Cornwall for blending and wool-spinning).  We've done a bit of a stock-take and updated the webshop.  We've also refreshed some of our website pages to bring them up to date!

27/11/24  SHOP UPDATE
I've done another shop update and all the undyed yarns that I have in stock are now listed with new photos and information about needle sizes throughout.  I'm currently dyeing yarn for an event at Glenkinchie Distillery  on 7-8 December and will have all remaining dyed yarns photographed and up on the website in the following week. :)
We now have gift cards available in our shop and these would make a perfect Christmas gift for anyone you know who loves our wool!

13/9/24 Three Items of News!
Firstly, a quick SHOP UPDATE has taken place following the Scottish Yarn Festival.  There's two item still to be photographed and added (DK Achness and DK Storm) but I'll do that soon.  There's still no Dyed DK Harestanes as I sold everything I'd dyed at Perth!  Now to dye some more for Yarndale in a couple of weeks.
Secondly, we have two yarn events left this year, and it would be great to see you at either of these.  Yarndale is held in Skipton and is a huge event on 28-29 September.  There are regular shuttle buses from the railway station to the venue.  Tickets are available here.   Glasgow School of Yarn is our last event this year, and it is held in the Trades Hall in Glasgow between 18 - 20 October.  Again, tickets are available here.  
And finally, we are already starting to apply for and promote events for 2025!  We will be at Winton Wool Gathering on 8th March (in Pencaitland - just 5 miles from us) but have not been selected to vend at Tangled in Galashiels.  We will be looking for a replacement yarn for our Harestanes DK, which was developed specifically for the event.    :)  Any ideas?

5/1/24  Two items of news:
SHOP UPDATE due 12th APRIL 7PM.  We have some delicious new DK yarns for sale in Harestanes Grey (the new base for our dyed Harestanes range), Licht (a pale fawn) and MIRKEN ( a deeper grey - but lighter than Coorie).  We also have a few test skeins of laceweight yarn, and our two worsted-spun 4-ply yarns in Glas Maol and Firth undyed shades.  Dyeing up new shades is waaay behind, due to the horrid horrid weather we've been having.
Next show is The Woolly Good Gathering in Edinburgh at the end of this month.
PRICE RISES:  I hate doing this, but the latest huge batches of spun yarn have come from the Mills at increased costs.  I really hate to pass these on although I'm heartened by how many of you tell me that I don't charge enough - especially for hand-dyed yarn.  As well as that, Royal Mail has just increased its prices.  I'll update the postage costs on the website this week, but will delay the yarn price increases until 1 June (after the Tangled Festival).

31/1/24  SHOP RE-OPENED WITH  LIMITED STOCK.  We are awaiting a couple of things 1) more yarn to be washed and dried so it can go into shop stock (DK Moorit, DK Storm and a new worsted-spun grey DK.  The undyed Firth grey 4ply which was for sale at shows last year but not online, is now in the shop and I'll add a photo soon.  Most of the yarn dyed for shows last year has all sold, but I'll take photos of what there is and add it to the shop during February,  Please email lammermuirwool@gmail.com if you've any specific enquiries.

2/1/24 SHOP TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE  - AKA Spring-clean and stock take.  Please email lammermuirwool@gmail.com with any stock queries!  Shop will re-open 1/2/24 latest.

17/4/23 It looks like my hand-dyeing mojo has returned after 4 years of being almost scared to reach for the dye pot! I’ve been playing about with some test dyes and will take ‘mini-cakes’ along to the Tangled Yarn Festival in Galashiels on 2 & 3 June,
The DK and 4 ply arrived from the spinning mills and are now available to buy in the web shop.

 25/1/23  We have been busy sending last year's fleeces off to the spinning mill and just waiting now for some new DK and 4 ply yarns to come back in a few weeks time!  We have been busy applying to vend at some of this year's yarn festivals, and we're delighted to have been selected for four so far.  Details of our yarn events for 2023 can be found here.  Doing a full stocktake and planning to do some small-batch hand dyeing in the weeks ahead of our first event in Perth.

8/11/22  What a busy and successful year it has been attending yarn events old and new. It's been great to see everyone in person and we've had some new yarns to sell this year, our Coorie DK, and our dyed laceweight.  We are fairly low on stock in general now, so will definitely be getting some new 4 ply, and laceweight spun up over the winter.  For now though, time to reflect, plan and rest.  Oh, and knit .....  We have already booked some yarn festivals in for 2023, and will apply for a few more.  However, we've thought hard about the physical and mental commitment involved in attending yarn festivals and have decided that we want to focus on doing a select few next year!

27/5/22 We have now updated our list of Yarn Festivals for 2022 on our website, under the section Come & Meet Us.  We're really looking forward to getting back out on the road again after the last few years.
In other news, the shearer has booked his date with us, and we're looking forward to getting the 2022 clip processed!  

15/5/22 A big thanks to all of you who are buying our lace-weight yarn to knit the Ceridwen Shawl featured in the recent edition of the Knitter magazine.  We look forward to seeing some of the finished results!

14/9/21 We are recovering from Perth Festival of Yarn last weekend, where we sold a surprising amount of yarn and had good times chatting away to new and returning customers as well as to other vendors.  These are strange times, but the event was well-managed and felt safe.  Now to start skeining, washing and labelling more yarn ready for Yarndale in Skipton on 25th and 26th September.  Hope to see you there!

19/8/21  Yarn Festivals are back!!  We are so delighted and honoured to have been selected for two events in September.  The first is Perth Festival of Yarn which actually runs from 11-19 September both in-person and on-line this year.  There is an actual, real in-person yarn festival happening on 11 and 12 September in the Station Hotel Perth and tickets  (which must be booked in advance) are available here.  A couple of weekends after that, we will be in Skipton Auction Mart for Yarndale on 25 and  26 September.  Tickets are available here.  We really hope that we can see you at one of these events!!

1/3/21  We are shaking off the winter and looking forward to the year ahead.  Getting fleeces ready for the spinning mill, and starting to think about skeining and labelling more of our year ready for any woolly events that might be happening this year.  A new blog post will give you some idea of how the sheep (and their shepherds) have been coping during lockdown!

30/10/20  Last weekend was Kendal Virtual Wool Gathering and we were so happy to be included.  It was probably our most successful event so far and generated enough sales to pay our  website and domain hosting bills  when they arrive in December.  There were so many luscious products for sale at the event and I managed to keep my own purchasing under control.  A bit.  Thanks to everyone for all their orders and we created a huge queue at our local Post Office on Monday morning!

12/10/20  We are downsizing our flock a bit as recent health challenges (for me, not the sheep) mean we need to lighten our workload a bit.  However, we cannot bring ourselves to sell them all!  We're rethinking how we run the wool business and hope to extend our collaborations with local farmers and breeders to continue to bring Shetland and other breed yarns.  This weekend we took 11 ewes to three new flocks in rural Aberdeenshire - a long weekend involving both stress and happiness as we got to deliver our sheep, meet their new owners (even if just socially distanced) and see our ewes' new homes.  It's always nice to be involved in starting new flocks, and we offer as much after-sales advice and support as new buyers need!  We still have breeding and retirement (paddock munching) ewes available for sale.

16/10/20  New shades arrive from the dye-mill: we're really excited to have collected cones of our long-awaited commercially dyed yarn. I remember dropping the yarn off at the mill - after much discussion, showing them samples of my most-popular hand-dyed shades and viewing samples cards of test dyes - only to hear the UK Prime Minister announcing the national lockdown as I drove home over the moors.  It's so great to finally have these dyed cones back!  They'll be up in the shop soon.

23/4/20 New films bring Lammermuir Wool to life: we were asked to submit some film clips to Wonderwool Wales for their advertising so had a solid bash at getting used to the software.  Film 1 is up on the website home page and the other two will follow soon...

22/4/20: The 2019 Wool Clip has landed!
In what are challenging times, we're pleased to announce that we finally have yarn from our 2019 wool clip ready for sale in our online shop.
First into the shop are three natural (undyed) shades in DK:  REE (a stormy dark grey); HAAR (a misty mid-grey) and MOORIT (a warm brown)  These shades have been part of our collection in previous years, but this batch is worsted (rather than wool) spun, giving a definite twist and more of a silky handle.
We're so pleased with them, and have taken a first step in getting some of the Haar commercially dyed in four main colours which will be revealed later into the summer.In the meantime, we'll be hand-dyeing small batches as usual and posting them into the shop each time they're ready. When they're gone, they're gone.

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