[Twinklefae]

My poor stressed out Nan in the UK is desperatly trying to find 100% Wool to knit me some soakers. Can anyone recommend a shop or two where they sell anything like pure wool?

SHe's in the Brighton area if that's helpful to anyone

 

[antannie]

Perhaps Flapjack could help and Oliversmum?

 

[flapjack]

Does Oliversmum2000 knit? I didn't know that.

For the pretty hand-painted colours, you want Colinette- click on Skye, which is a standard aran-weight, but you could also use one zero. There's a lovely chap on ebayUK who sells undyed BFL cheap under the name alpacabuyer.
I also like Texere, whose Airedale aran is buttery soft and very nice for cloth nappy wraps. The shipping for HPY to the UK is only four pounds and gets here in under two weeks from the time of ordering. Other than texere, I get a lot of my yarn from the US because it's so much cheaper over there than it is over here, and shipping isn't that expensive if you use global priority.
In Brighton, though, she will be fairly close to kangaroo, which is always worth a visit.

 

[antannie]

I don't know if she knits. I just notices she is in England and wasn't thinking.

 

[malyita]

Royal Yarns is a UK online retailer, I believe, with very good prices. I was shocked when I was there how hard it was to find wool.

 

[purplesmiley]

www.kraftykoala.co.uk does beautiful hand dyed BFL and they knit up lovely you can see some knit up by me here

 

[flapjack]

Nice work, purplesmiley

I love the skull and crossbones on the longies...

 

[maeveypoo]

I

the baby pirate! He is so snuggleable!