I'm aiming to publish a lot more photos this year to show you what is going on in Spin A Yarn.

The first workshop Claire taught this year was Professional Finishing techniques, which is always the most popular one.

This photo shows everyone working very hard. Its quite a demanding day as so many techniques are covered during the day.

The next photo shows 3 happy participants on the knitted Flowers and Jewellery workshop. They were very pleased with the knitted flowers that they produced in the morning and then made some pretty necklaces in the afternoon.

Spin A Yarn knitting clubs are getting more and more popular. Last Tuesday I managed to fit 8 people round my little table. Fortunately no one seemed to mind. As each new person arrived everyone squashed closer together and the laughter and conversation got louder. Amazingly lots of knitting was done and lot s of coffee was drunk.

Thought I'd post this photo to give you some impression of the atmosphere.

I've had access to my website again for a week now so it must be time to bring you up to date with all my news.

I've had delivery of lots of new yarns since my last entry - lots of beautiful natural yarns such as Artesano alpaca in 4 ply, DK and Aran weights, the stunning hand painted Araucania yarns from Chile and the Beautiful Mirasol yarns from Peru. The Baby Llama , miski yarn is incredibly soft. Everytime I hand a skein to a customer to feel there is the same reaction --ooh ...ahh...!

Two weekends ago I went to my first trade show, Stitches at the NEC Birmingham and had a wonderful time. Designer yarns invited me to a champagne reception that they held for their customers. It was very exciting as I got to chat to Debbie Bliss, Louisa Harding and Jane Ellison who were all really nice. They really seemed to appreciate the effort that retailers make to sell their designs and yarn.

The whole show was wonderful and I loved meeting all the different yarn company owners and discovering all the different beautiful natural yarns.

I was very good and didn't order anything at the show apart from 10 muti coloured sheep kits from Cornish Organic. They were so cute, I couldn't resist them. I've already planned to build a tower of them in the window.

Since the show however I have been trying to working out if I am able to resist the Lantern Moon knitting needles which are being marketed by the same company which is looking after Mango Moon and Alchemy yarns amongst others.

The Alchemy yarns are gorgeous spun silken skeins in amazingly  brilliant colours. They are very expensive so I think I might just buy a few individual skeins to look at and put in the window!

Its not as though I need any more yarn to fill the shop. My problem is that I can't help collecting new beautiful examples of yarn. My shop is stuffed full now as I've had large deliveries from Touch and Rare yarns from New Zealand as well as all the new Rowan summer yarns.

Do I have a problem!?