Sweet success!!

There is NOTHING more rewarding that starting a new hobby (spinning) and creating something new, then to put it available for sale, have someone buy it and give you good feedback on it. 

My very nice yarn

Last month, I spun some Dorset/Hampshire fleece to create two 100g skeins of hand spun yarn. I have advertised them both on my ebay shop, only to have someone buy one of them. Ebay does put pressure on its sellers to offer FREE postage. That's all well and good but Royal Mail won't deliver it for free so the costs have to be absorbed somewhere. I advertised the yarn at £6 each with free postage and packaging. So when I did managed to sell one skein, just how cheaply could I send it and be happy it would turn up at its destination?

The normal postage for first class small parcel signed for is £4.10. That is a BIG chunk of £6. If I could get it down to large letter size I could send it first class large letter signed for at £2.30. One of the new toys that I have is a vacuum packer. It takes out the air from the package and heat seals it to create a vacuum. Brilliant for home made bacon but how would my yarn fair? It was worth a try. I squished it down as much as I could while the air was being extracted until the yarn looked like it had melted in the pack. I recalled someone else sending me some yarn like this and my feeling of horror as I opened the package to see the contents. I parcelled it up and took it to the post office. Yes, it would go through the large letter slop on the counter top gadget, and it was sent. I hurriedly emailed the buyer to let her know what I had done and how she should pierce the package to let the yarn reinflate back to normal.

She has received the yarn, reinflated it and left feedback .... very nice yarn.

Wow!! That's something I created! Brilliant. 

The other skein is still available for sale in my ebay shop.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Handspun-Dorset-Hampshire-fleece-Natural-100g-chunky-yarn-/331113021654?pt=UK_Crafts_Knitting_Crochet_EH&hash=item4d17dfc0d6