Bringing the Yarn to You
Wool on Wheels liaises with indie yarn dyers, pattern designers and accessory makers. They send me their product and I drive around the country with it. The amazing variety of a yarn market is packed into Indie (my van) so that you can squish it in person, compare the true colours and skip paying postage. I am thrilled to represent a huge number of NZ indie dyer brands and to be able to share their talent with you on my travels.
As I am based in Auckland, I do a Summer Run in the earlier part of the year to cover Northland. The major Road Show takes place from mid-August to early-October in a seven week blitz of the North and South Island featuring over 15 pop up shops. The yarn calendar concludes in Auckland with Fibre Fiesta, an Auckland based yarn market where I pop up alongside some of your favourite dyers. But don't be surprised if I sneak in a few informal events, birthdays must be celebrated!
While I am nothing if not the ultimate enabler, I do realise that sometimes you need to make time to knit through your acquisitions. This has inspired seasonal escapes where a small group of us stay somewhere quiet and the sole focus of the weekend is stash busting. No classes, no kids, no cooking (for you) and no sales pitches after registration. Eat, sleep, stitch. Repeat.
For the truly dedicated fan, there is the Ponty Adoption Programme. Ponty is my little munted sidekick. Because I vetoed sock knitting, making siblings for him has become my easy on-the-go project. His name comes from the Pontius pattern by Saraphir, with a few modifications to suit my wayward style. When I have a few completed I run an online adoption party, and issue certificates. I'm also really geeky about it so I have a register of all existing Ponties and where they live. The adopting family also gets to allocate the new surname. I'm not against people making their own either! If someone makes a Ponty with my modifications then they are cousins and will also get added to the register. It's important for family to stay connected.
So. Apart from that wee sidestep away from sanity... I love yarn. I love driving around New Zealand and I love that my business helps support dozens of small businesses. I only stock brands by people who live and work in this country.
Yarn makes our world go round.
As I am based in Auckland, I do a Summer Run in the earlier part of the year to cover Northland. The major Road Show takes place from mid-August to early-October in a seven week blitz of the North and South Island featuring over 15 pop up shops. The yarn calendar concludes in Auckland with Fibre Fiesta, an Auckland based yarn market where I pop up alongside some of your favourite dyers. But don't be surprised if I sneak in a few informal events, birthdays must be celebrated!
While I am nothing if not the ultimate enabler, I do realise that sometimes you need to make time to knit through your acquisitions. This has inspired seasonal escapes where a small group of us stay somewhere quiet and the sole focus of the weekend is stash busting. No classes, no kids, no cooking (for you) and no sales pitches after registration. Eat, sleep, stitch. Repeat.
For the truly dedicated fan, there is the Ponty Adoption Programme. Ponty is my little munted sidekick. Because I vetoed sock knitting, making siblings for him has become my easy on-the-go project. His name comes from the Pontius pattern by Saraphir, with a few modifications to suit my wayward style. When I have a few completed I run an online adoption party, and issue certificates. I'm also really geeky about it so I have a register of all existing Ponties and where they live. The adopting family also gets to allocate the new surname. I'm not against people making their own either! If someone makes a Ponty with my modifications then they are cousins and will also get added to the register. It's important for family to stay connected.
So. Apart from that wee sidestep away from sanity... I love yarn. I love driving around New Zealand and I love that my business helps support dozens of small businesses. I only stock brands by people who live and work in this country.
Yarn makes our world go round.
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Click on the region most applicable to you to be added to a list for that area.
NORTHLAND
AUCKLAND
WAIKATO
THAMES & COROMANDEL
BAY OF PLENTY
GISBORNE
HAWKE'S BAY
MANAWATU-WANGANUI
TARANAKI
WAIRARAPA
WELLINGTON
TASMAN & NELSON
MARLBOROUGH
WEST COAST
CANTERBURY
OTAGO
SOUTHLAND
