Happy Yule and a few Updates

 First of Happy Yule or whichever Festivities you are celebrating or not!

OK, to the updates.

I have closed the Folksy store again. Eight months and all I sold was one job lot of yarn, had two items wish listed and that was that. Not worth the hassle.

Everything handmade is back on eBay.

January I will list more yarn I still have kept in case my hand will improve. Well, it hasn't. Every time I do something or move my wrist, the pain is rather bad and I really don't want to make it any worse again by starting knitting again. 

It's going to be mainly Alpaca mix yarns, lots of Lang Yarn, including the knitting pattern books and some more sock yarn. I will still hold back with some of the sock yarn. I hope a couple of years more not knitting I might be able to knit socks again. But lots slower.

I wish you all peaceful festivities and a much better 2026

Yummy Yarn Cakes on eBay

I have listed all my yarn cakes I want to sell from Hobbii and Stylecraft.

From 100% cotton to mixed and sock yarn, in a wide range of colours from bright and summery to Halloween. Many are from discontinued ranges.

Please feel free to have a browse.

I will ship abroad on request but please be aware I only ship tracked.

Just send me a message through eBay. It will not be worth it for just one item unless you really want it and don't mind to pay more for P&P than the actual yarn is. But if you get as close to 2 kg as possible it might be worth it. Also be aware when you add up that you leave about 100g for packaging and the usual % that ball/cakes can weigh more.

Or just leave me a message before you consider buying and I can weigh it for you.

P&P Europe Zone 1-3 

£10 - £16.50 for a 2kg max (250g is between £8 - £11)

Rest of the world excluding USA

£18 - £33 for a 2kg max  (250g is between £11.50 - £14)

USA

I will not ship to the USA because of impending tariffs.

 

Quick update reg eBay

 Unsurprisingly eBay has made some adjustments to their buyer protection fee by dropping it drastically for anything less than a fiver. So there is me who was riding it out while others ran off and cried.

I knew this would happen because it was pretty clear they were shooting themselves in the foot. We private sellers are still important even if eBay thought we were just some ballast they could throw into the sea of indifference.

So the yarn I had moved to Folksy is no relisted on eBay. But handmade items will stay at Folksy because I think this is the best place for it for now. I will see what happens when people start buying xmas gifts. If nothing sells from my handmade items they go back to eBay as well.

That's all I wanted to say for now.

Oh, I forgot, I have added sock yarn and probably next week I will be adding yarn cakes if I don't procrastinate too much 😂 and then I have another shedload of knitting books to list.

Regarding my hands, there are days they don't hurt too much but it still feels the pain is just simmering in the background waiting for me to do something stupid like opening a jar and boom! 😬

Moving to Folksy and Vinted

 Unfortunately, I didn't have a choice but to leave eBay and move to Folksy.

eBays new private seller policies have hit me hard, because I sell mostly items below £2 the added 75p plus 4% buyer protection fee have almost doubled my prices. On top of it I was forced to switch to recorded shipping, because otherwise I wouldn't get paid for 2 weeks.

So my 2nd hand stuff will now be sold at Vinted. And you know why? Because Vinted is transparent about their buyer protection fees. They are not hidden in the price like eBay does. And they don't sting you twice. It's just the 75p and not 4% on top.

So now I am moving all the handmade stuff to Folksy. That was all I thought in the beginning but I have now included all the yarn and I will sell the books and all the future vintage patterns there too.

All I do is pay something monthly to be able to list without restriction and I will have to pay a small percentage in fees to PayPal or Stripe. 

I hope once people realise I have moved they will come and buy from me again.

My Folksy Store

and

My Vinted Store

Oh and eBay you suck!! 👎😡

That's not how you treat loyal members who supported you for over 23 years. I hope you suffer as badly as I have over the past couple of months.