Sconch Blog

As we've just launched our Spring Boxes for this year, I thought it was a great time to do a proper show and tell of our Christmas Sock Box from last year! Plus of course, give you details about the Spring Box shipping very soon!

So a little late in the day, but I thought I would do a round up post for 2025, because it was a bloody amazing year!!

Obviously, the biggest thing for us was opening at the new and shiny shop on January 7th - yes that's right, it has been an entire year of making Halstead our new home, and we have been made so welcome :)

Poppies! Aaaaargh, it's just so amazeballs! We've been inundated with poppies for our poppy appeal, and we have been blown away by people's generosity with their time in making them. It's been amazing to feel so at home in the community here in Halstead (and beyond - after all, we've also had loads of poppies posted in to us from all over the country!)

I've got a brand new MAL to tell you about! Yes, the Spring MAL was so successful (our biggest yet!) and saw so many of you joining in making crochet and knit top-down sweaters.

And now a new MAL has begun!! (no judgement here for multiple WIPs haha!!)

So...Mosaic Shawls WOOHOOOOO!!

An update on the MAL, some jolly bunting, and info on this year's Poppy Appeal - we need your poppies people!!

And we're off!! Yes, the MAL has launched, and what a start we've made! So many people have been joining in (thank you to all you lovelies who've been in to buy yarn for it, but remember, you can use...

It's been a while since I blogged, but we are back with our first Make-a-Long of 2025! Make a top-down sweater with us, with 3 crochet designs and 3 knit designs to choose from...

A look at designers from the BIPOC community...

Representation in knitting matters...