Laebrack Colourways – J&S Blog
The Laebrack pattern, designed by Margaret Stuart is a classic Shetland Lace jumper, featuring bands of colour which due to the stitch pattern – Old Shell, creates a lovely wave effect. Its k…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone, a quick post for you today! As of now (Monday 23rd December at 1pm) we are now closed for our Christmas break. We will reopen on Tuesday 7th January 2025 at 9am, during this time no orders will be dispatched or emails responded to. We’d like to wish all our wonderful customers, friends, and […]| J&S Blog
In the wool store last week, we came across a fleece which used to be common here. Now, it is a much more rare occurrence. This is a fleece with markings described as ‘scadder’. This is a dialect word to describe a Shetland Sheep with coarse, longer hair down the back from the neck to […]| J&S Blog
The Laebrack pattern, designed by Margaret Stuart is a classic Shetland Lace jumper, featuring bands of colour which due to the stitch pattern – Old Shell, creates a lovely wave effect. Its k…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone! A quick post from us today to let you know we recently got more stock of our 5ply Shetland Cones, this is our newest range of yarn which we launched at Wool Week in 2023. Its a love…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone! You may remember during 2020 and 2021 when we had no in-person Shetland Wool Week we decided to produce along with Keiba Clubb online videos, featuring some of the classes we usuall…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone! Just a quick update, apologies if you’ve already seen this in our monthly newsletter (sign up here): we are now closed for our Christmas Break from 1 pm on Thursday, December …| J&S Blog
Hello everyone, thank you for the great response to our new Yarn, 5ply Shetland! Today we thought we’d show you a closer look at the colour palette we chose to produce. The yarn is available …| J&S Blog
Hello everyone! The dust has settled on another Shetland Wool Week and we had a great and really busy time, during SWW we launched a new yarn range in the shop and we are delighted to say it is now…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone, today we are discussing one of the more hands-on aspects of the wool side of our business: hand sorting. This is physically sorting each fleece into different grades for its intende…| J&S Blog
Hello everyone, thank you for the good feedback on our last post! Today we will go into something else we always get asked about – knitting with cones! cones in our new back-shop area. We off…| J&S Blog
