I’ve been added to the Handspun Directory, a listing of spinners and shops selling handspun yarn, run by Spinning Through Time.
The directory exists to point makers toward handspun- a category that mostly gets passed over in favour of mill-spun. It groups UK physical stores, spinners you can buy from directly, and a worldwide section. I’m in the UK list, under spinners selling direct.
Handspun is slower and more variable than anything that comes off a commercial frame, and that’s rather the point of it. All of the handspun yarn I sell starts as fleece from a named Highland farm, processed through a Scottish micro-mill or by hand, then spun and often naturally dyed here. The meterage isn’t uniform and the colour isn’t repeatable. You’re buying a specific fleece, spun once.
If you’re looking for handspun for a project, it’s a useful place to start- there are good spinners on the list, here and further afield. You can see the full directory at Spinning Through Time and my own yarn is available in person at shops throughout Scotland.
If you’d like a custom order from me, all you have to do is get in touch. I work with anything from special single fleeces to beloved pet fur.
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