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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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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