Last pop-up market of the summer

We missed a few markets this past few weeks. So we’re not going to miss this last one before the summer break.

Come and see us in Times Square Center – the one in Dubai! We’ll have your favourite yarns including the latest member of the family, Sandnesgarn as well as the crowd-favourite Schepjees Whirls and Stone Washed.

Our community craft table will be back and ready to host you from 10am until 7pm.  This is forever free. You don’t need to pay to join other knitters and crocheters. Bring your current project to work on while you grab a bite and sip on coffee/tea/juice from the many food outlets at the mall.  This is also an informal craft surgery session!  We have had many knitters and crocheters come to us clutching their precious projects with questions about a particularly complex stitch, or help is fixing a wonky cable.  All of this help and insight is offered for free.  We love meeting other crafters!

This is also a great chance to meet other local artisans and see their beautiful creations in person.  Online shopping is not for everyone. Sometimes you have to see things with your own eyes and use your hands to feel the textures and shapes in person.

See you there?

Out of Office

We are going on vacation and will be out of the country from the 4th until the 18th June.

The webshop will remain open, but deliveries will be fulfilled only when we are back.

To those in the UAE, enjoy your Eid holidays.

See you again at the next ARTE pop-up on the 12th July.

New beginnings

Like water, time is one of the things we cannot control. It will keep ticking on with no regard to us humans. It will still keep going long after we’re all gone from this place.

It may sound a bit morbid but it’s a basic truth which, if we accept fully, we would be able to make every moment count.

Anyway, all that to say, we’re 5 years on from the pandemic of our times! Like most people, I kind of stopped keeping time since 2020. A lot has happened to our little shop since and, at the same time, it feels like we’ve been on super slow motion all this time.

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Festival of Lights CAL

An ode to global light festivals and natural spectacles around the world, the Festival of Lights CAL designed by Scheepjes Designer Collective member Jessica Wifall is Scheepjes’ official Autumn/Winter Crochet-A-Long for 2024. This classic CAL is a single project available in two different yarns, running over eight weeks.

As each motif is made, immerse yourself in vibrant hues inspired by the world’s most mesmerising light and colour displays – hot air balloons, Northern Lights, fireworks and light trails. Made using luxurious fibres – an Extra Fine Merino Wool blend or GOTS-certifed Organic Cotton yarn, this dazzling project will add a luminous touch to your home during the depths of winter darkness.

The free pattern will be available on the Scheepjes website and in the official Scheepjes Facebook groups. During the CAL, the Scheepjes community offers support, and Jessica will share blog posts and helpful tips for each part of the pattern.

What’s in each kit?

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How it started…

This is our origin story.

Some of you have been around long enough to know that Yarn Souq started with myself (Jocelyn) and Ruth.  We met at one of our local knitting group’s weekend meet-ups in 2010, during Ramadan too!  Over the years, we have grown into our knitting adventure and discovered that we both like pretty much similar patterns and types of yarns.  To be honest, we were both yarn snobs, i.e. we prefer wool, silk, and hand-dyed yarn.

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Clearance Sale

Remind me one day to show you our “office”.  There’s yarn from floor to ceiling.  And you wonder why one of our social media hashtags is #yarnheavenindubai?  It’s packed full in places and I’m planning to free up most of those spaces to bring weather-friendly yet luxurious and colourful yarns.

So Yarn Souq is having a clearance sale.

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