layfamilyyarn

layfamilyyarn Husband and wife team producing high quality hand dyed yarn.

I think this might be my favourite speckle and fade so far and let’s be honest I have loved them all! This was not the i...
22/05/2026

I think this might be my favourite speckle and fade so far and let’s be honest I have loved them all! This was not the intended colour palatte for this month but the carnations that were in the vases at last weekends retreat were just too pretty to ignore💕

Shop update details: Sunday 12 noon for Santas secret sock club and this beautiful speckle and fade.

21/05/2026

A bit of a chatter about new yarn bases, new colourways and upcoming shop update.

We have been quiet on socials but fingers crossed we are back to full health and motivation!

Tonight is the night (7pm) friends that out Christmas shop including our 2026 advent goes live✨✨We are really excited to...
03/05/2026

Tonight is the night (7pm) friends that out Christmas shop including our 2026 advent goes live✨✨
We are really excited to be offering a mini skein advent calendar again this year, A Merry Mini Christmas is our ‘theme’ this year although to be honest we are bucking the trend of having a specific theme and this is definitely NOT a fade, so what it is?

A Merry Mini Christmas is a celebration of the season and all things Christmas✨🎄from food and drink to films and songs, we will explore Christmas traditions as well as looking at more modern crazes.

Using our dye style to create a collection of variegated and speckled yarns this will be a colourful cohesive set of yarns that will work in a larger project if that’s your preference or if like me you enjoy happy scrappy socks and blankets this too will be perfect.

We are thrilled to be working alongside and this year who are working their magic to create the project bag and notions to go alongside your yarns🎉

We do appreciate advent is a big investment of trust and money and after the behaviour of some yarn businesses either failing to fulfil the orders or being exceptionally late delivering the goods last year we get there maybe some trepidation. All we can do is say this is our 8th year of advent and we have NEVER let anyone down. We have the summer months scheduled to commit to this project and they will be shipped in October. Thank in advance for trusting in us💕💕

Happy Friday friends. It’s a lovely feeling when the yarn you have dyed all week gets labelled and put on the shelves 🎉🙂...
24/04/2026

Happy Friday friends. It’s a lovely feeling when the yarn you have dyed all week gets labelled and put on the shelves 🎉🙂 the shop is filling up lovely. It will be a bumper shop update next month including the new shimmer mohair base😍😍

Have a great weekend

Good morning, I have been left alone in the dye studio this week so I pulled out all my old dye books dating from 2017 f...
23/04/2026

Good morning, I have been left alone in the dye studio this week so I pulled out all my old dye books dating from 2017 for there are some beauties in there😍

I dyded colourways from my very first club, the afternoon tea club, I went down memory lane in squiddle village and yarnmanac club and smiled when reminding myself of the children book club.

I will show you the yarn tomorrow when it’s dry, I wonder how many you will remember 😊

Good afternoon friends and a warm introduction to ‘A Merry Mini Christmas’ Our 2026 advent calendar✨After a two year bre...
16/04/2026

Good afternoon friends and a warm introduction to ‘A Merry Mini Christmas’ Our 2026 advent calendar✨

After a two year break from dyeing mini skein yarn advents we are excited to go back to our roots🤗 We are going all school this year, no fade or specific theme but a colourful exploration into the joy of the season. From food and drink to films and songs, old traditions and modern crazes each 20g mini skein will explore the joy of Christmas.🎄🤶

This advent will NOT fade but using our dye style to create variegated and speckled yarns you will receive a collection of 24 20g mini skeins that will work cohesively together if you wish to make a larger project but if like me you enjoy happy scrappy socks and blankets this will be perfect. There is a hint to the tone of colour we will be using peeping out of the tote bags😉 no neons here, if thats your vibe Mather and James have you covered.

We are chuffed to be collaborating with both and to make this advent parcel extra special. Your individually wrapped, labled and numbered mini skeins will come in one of Gilly’s unique tote bags🎉 Clare is designing a beautiful set of stitch markers to co=ordinate with your advent.

The full advent with the tote bag is limited in number, if they sell out we will offer the advent and stitch markers set without the bag.

🗓️save the date: Sunday 3rd May 7pm BST
💷 £185.00 full advent £165.00 without tote bag.

We are really excited to be doing a mini skeins advent again but if mini’s aren’t your thing we will be doing our 4 Sundays of advent calendar as well as a Christmas Eve box again this year…details to follow over the next couple of weeks.

A day that deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated with my mug on the grid🎉 today I spent the whole day in the dye st...
02/04/2026

A day that deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated with my mug on the grid🎉 today I spent the whole day in the dye studio, dyeing yarn and beginning to test dye a new upcoming collection.

You would think that’s a pretty normal day in the life of a hand dyed yarn business and you’re right it is but it’s not my usual role anymore.

Small changes happening behind the scenes mean I will be doing a couple of dye days a week🙂 I had a fab time. Music up loud and I sang and danced my way through the day🎉🎉

We are back from our short break, a lovely week spent away from the studio enjoying spring walks, a little bit of knitti...
24/03/2026

We are back from our short break, a lovely week spent away from the studio enjoying spring walks, a little bit of knitting and quilting🧵🧶time spent at the allotment 🌱and many a glorious sunset walk with Geoff🐾

We are back at work now and cracking on with both Santa’s secret sock club and the speckle and fade for this month. Orders are on track to be posted on Thursday.
I Hope you have been enjoying some time out in nature as the seasons shift💕🌸

Good afternoon from a dare I say it blue sky Shropshire! Who knew such a think still existed  🙄   I am still very much l...
17/02/2026

Good afternoon from a dare I say it blue sky Shropshire! Who knew such a think still existed 🙄

I am still very much loving knitting my speckle and fade socks, even though I was a bit behind with this months sample.

I have found a couple of spares of Jan and Feb so have listed a three month bundle to the website if you too want to join in. (There are only 3 available)

I have also put a thread on Ravelry explaining the recipe I use for fading the colours.

Good morning friends, back in late summer I gathered very bit of confidence I could muster, grabbed a handful of awkward...
15/02/2026

Good morning friends, back in late summer I gathered very bit of confidence I could muster, grabbed a handful of awkwardness and went into the woods with Megan to take some pictures for the patterns that featured in our 2025 advent calendar. If you know me at all this was a huge push out of my comfort zone but as always Geoff was by my side holding my hand😊

The winter in Ironbridge shawl is a stunning design by Joanna Herriot of the design team, it is a fantastic easy to wear crescent shaped shawl that uses a blend of fi*****ng weight and fluffy suri alpaca yarn which results in a light but warm and snuggly shawl.

We will be offering kits for this shawl in today’s shop update (11am GMT) as well as single skeins in both 4ply and DK.

Where are all my sock blank lovers👋🙋‍♀️We have had great fun dying all the sock blanks this week. Can you guess which on...
12/02/2026

Where are all my sock blank lovers👋🙋‍♀️

We have had great fun dying all the sock blanks this week. Can you guess which one I have kept for myself?(it’s not the one with only 2 in the picture🤭)
Let me know about think and I will reveal in my stories later.

Shop update details.
Sunday 15th Feb 11:00am GMT

Address

C17 Maws Craft Centre, Ferry Road
Telford
TF87LS

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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