2025 Recap
2025 was a year of two halves. The first couple of months were quiet. I had barely any orders through the website and yarn shows didn’t start until March. Add in the dark winter weather, the cold and the horrible things happening in the world, I was seriously considering what I was doing.
Gradually, as show season hit, things improved. I went to more shows than any other year, meeting lots of wonderful people who reminded me why I do this. I spoke at a retreat, then a craft brunch. Advent sales weren’t as high as usual, but it still took a month to dye, pack and post them. Then in November everything suddenly ramped up. I was contacted about providing stock for MacCulloch and Wallis in London. I rented a section of the new Trove Emporium in Winton with my good friend Rebecca at Moonfly’s Emporium. I held my first open day at my studio. The website orders kept coming. I was working every day without a break.
December was meant to give me a chance to breathe and enjoy my musical hobbies. But I got the flu, so I had to fit three weeks’ work into two. I played in two Christmas concerts, and multiple busking sessions. Then I caught a cold and had that over Christmas.
There are some projects I’ve talked about but never got around to, no matter how well intentioned they were. While they were put on the backburner, I’m still planning on doing my big sock yarn experiment and releasing shade cards for my semi-solid colourways. I just don’t know exactly when yet.
I was planning on doing some work between Christmas and New Year but I couldn’t face it. I didn’t show up on social media, I didn’t send a newsletter and I ended up truly resting for a while. It was then I realised I had been on a fast track to burnout, and things couldn’t quite continue in the same way.
Moving into 2026
Moving forwards, you shouldn’t notice much of a change, apart from perhaps more consistency in my posting, newsletters and website updates. Behind the scenes, I’ve been planning and making changes to, in theory, make things more sustainable for myself. I still have a huge list of things I want to achieve, but I’m going to chip away at them gradually rather than try to do them all at once. Yarn will be my priority, with anything else a bonus that gets worked on as and when I can.