02/12/2025
Hi, I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I’m finding things quite difficult at the moment. I thought as I finished my shows for the year things would slow down and I would get a chance to catch back up with life but the universe clearly has different plans. I’m still here making your cakes and keeping on top of orders but social media has fallen to the bottom of the pile which is meaning less sales and increasing financial worries. Concurrently I’m dealing with a court claim for a customer who has taken over £2000 of stock from me without paying for it. When this initially happened I was embarrassed that I had let myself get into this situation and felt bad for the other person involved as their circumstances must be bad to do this to another small business but it turns out they might have done it to other people as well so now not only have I had to shoulder a huge financial loss and all the additional stress that comes with trying to get that back but I’m also absolutely livid that someone who claimed to be a caring member of the crochet community could behave in a way that doesn’t just jeopardise their business but also does lasting damage to other small business who have gone out of their way to try and help.
A huge thank you to all my other customers new and old whos orders have helped me to manage this s**t show over the last 12 months, to the wonderful organisers of and who gave me a chance to take my yarn out irl and meet so many amazing people from our fibre community who have helped me realise that this sort of behaviour is the exception and not the rule. And lastly thank you to for showing me how I can still work with designers without it being damaging to my mental health or my business, I’ve really valued the work we have done together this year and I sincerely hope it has been mutually beneficial.
Sorry for the off load, this has been weighing heavily on everything that I’ve done for the last 12 months and it’s time to unpack it and move on. If you made it this far well done!