New Website!

It's finally here.  Sun Rae Yarn  

I hope you enjoy my new website. It will be updated and replenished regularly over the next few weeks.  So go on treat yourself or the knitter in your life.

Shirley xx

Christmas Gift Preview LAUNCH MOVED!

Website Launch Moved to 29/11/2010, 8 pm Launch! 

This is due to a few issues with the new website. I have contacted the host company, and they are looking into it and will be working over the weekend to iron the issues out. They have promised the website will be ready for Monday morning. I am so sorry for the inconvenience, very stressful but I would rather everything was perfect-ish with no glitches. Once it's working it will be amazing.

I designed these cases with only the finest fabrics and threads.
Each Case has 7-9 pockets and plenty of room, they also fold over the needles, so they won't slip out. Each roll fastens up, and ties with a ribbon, Ribbon colour may vary.

Each one is unique, as I have created each one by hand with lots of love. They will grace your knitting bag, and you will receive many compliments as well as "Where did you find that case?" at your next knitting/crochet group.

  

The pyramid bags, are available in small, medium, large, the smallest will hold stitch markers, sewing needles and other haberdashery items

There is also box bags, most are available in the fabric used for the needle roll. They also come in small, medium, large. The largest will hold sock needles and 100g of yarn.

 

Sorry if the preview is a little bit late....the joys of a particular uploader we shall not name lol.

So,  here I am, finally at the starting line. I'm such a hoarder I would love to keep all of them but because I 'm such a perfectionist that's the statement that will assure you that these items are of genuine quality.  Thank you for looking, shop launch tomorrow at 4 pm.  I hope you find something you like and in keeping with my perfectionist traits all items will be beautifully gift wrapped in tissue paper.

Squee! My New Website Launch

Please see new notice above and launch date =(
*New Website Launch*  
4pm- 27th of November 2010  
(be first to preview items, 8pm-26th of November 2010)

Loads of knitterly scrumptious Christmas Gifts, for you, or the knitter in your life.

Who's Excited?

It's 39 days to Santa time !  Can you tell I'm excited...... lol!

Researching the therapeutic benefits of knitting, crocheting and cross stitch!

Today I submitted My Story to Stitchlinks xxx  
Researching the therapeutic benefits of knitting, crocheting and cross stitch!

They're research: (extract from Stitchlinks website)
"There is no doubt that developing an interest or hobby is good for you. It gives you a point of focus which is outside yourself. This can divert the brain’s attention away from issues such as chronic pain, worries, stresses and depression. Without such a distraction the brain can easily focus all its attention on problems, such as pain, and this focusing inwards can soon form destructive cycles of downward spiralling thoughts which become difficult to break.
When we first began researching the therapeutic benefits of knitting and cross stitching, our initial thoughts were that they could provide an effective way of ‘occupying’ people from the arm chair or hospital bed which could be deliverable in kit form.
As our investigation of narratives progressed, however, the benefits appeared to go a lot deeper with possible physiological, neurological, psychological, behavioural and social changes."

This is my story!

This story is going to sound so blunt, but I don't know any other way to write it.

 
I am a survivor of Child Sex Abuse, and I have suffered depression all my life because of it.

In 2006, aged 35, my niece was born and to protect her from my dad, my sister, and I decided to go to the Police. We had to end the nightmare we were living under and to protect the innocent little one from the abuse we had suffered as children. It was around this time I started knitting again. I was taught as a child at the age of 5 by my mum.

We had to wait 2 years before our case was heard at the High Court and throughout that time my knitting became my friend and my release. Eventually, my dad was sentenced to 8 years in prison, I thought my nightmare was over, or rather I put on a brave face to the world, friends and family around me. Then in December 2009, I broke down, I couldn't carry on my normal life. I was reliving the abuse I had suffered over and over again. My head just couldn't set it free. I cried all the time, suffered panic attacks – it became the norm.

I was signed off from work in January 2010 with depression. Then in June 2010, I met a psychotherapist who diagnosed me as suffering from Trauma. After only one visit, it may sound strange, but I felt a huge weight lifting from my shoulders. The relief of finally finding out what was wrong with me and finally realising I could be helped. It is now November 2010, I'm still in therapy, my friend (knitting) has never left my side. It has kept me sane, it has calmed me down and each stitch helps me forget. It stops my mind from racing, in fact when I pick up my needles and yarn, it feels like my old friend is giving me a hug. I love my knitting.

Taking Knitting to a Whole New Level!

The Art of Ben Cuevas

I am absolutely stunned, speechless and in awe of this piece.  The detail is mind boggling, the vertebrae, the hands. Stunning! I'm really gobsmacked.