Ja, Wol Blog

Here’s an idea for summer (+ a practical guide to mending)

Here’s an idea for summer (+ a practical guide to mending)

I've got a new strategy to make good use of our extra time in summer with low energy; MENDING! Here's a step by step starting road map to help you mend your way through summer and get your conscious closet, your winter wardrobe ready. It's social practice it's not that hard, It's more sustainable it's a great strategy!
Read more
Maintaining a sustainable lifestyle is that hard?

Maintaining a sustainable lifestyle is that hard?

The new year is coming. And learning from the upside down pandemic world we hopefully want to do better this year going forward. But living a more sustainable lifestyle feels like such a mountain of work. Where to even start?

Read more
Taking time off as a radical act

Taking time off as a radical act

But the organizing part of my –superpower neuro diverse– brain quickly made a sketch-of-a-blueprint-of-a-plan. And I let myself work out a way to get better and at the same time offer help to others. I did this while I moved house and closed my shop. It sounds like I should have just quit everything I was doing and go lie face-down on the floor. But shutting it all down just adds to my stress, I’m sure you can empathize. How would I ever recover from recovering….?
Read more
CHOOSE WOMAN, CHOOSE!!

CHOOSE WOMAN, CHOOSE!!

The universe really has been shouting at me: CHOOSE WOMAN, CHOOSE!!And I have started to listen.   I was too busy, to overwhelmed by all the options, all the social...
Read more
THE STASH

THE STASH

I am studying again, as I might have mentioned before. It could have been a million times. And my best friends know nothing... Do you get that, that you feel...
Read more
The Log Cabin - knitting for comfort

The Log Cabin - knitting for comfort

This week I want to focus on the kind of knitting that you can do when your head is full of thoughts, full of grief, full of sadness but you...
Read more
Strawberry Fields

Strawberry Fields

It's strawberry time here in Holland and this gets me excited on so many levels.

For years I couldn't eat strawberries. All trough my child-, teen- and early adult years I had allergic reactions and the idea of a bowl of strawberries was hardly a reason to party. But -long story short- with the help of an expert I could finally eat strawberries and my life got a lovely upgrade.

This little red fruit has become a symbol of so many things for me.
Read more
SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE BUSINESSES

SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE BUSINESSES

voor NEDERLANDS, scroll naar beneden.   These are hard times for my fellow entrepreneurs. Small businesses are very fragile in times like these.  In short: they mostly spend the money...
Read more
Online shopping is hard!

Online shopping is hard!

Today I had the biggest reality check.

An envelope landed on the mat in the shop with a very interesting question in it…

At first I was excited; ‘Someone has send me a letter!” I thought! Woohoo. I love letters…

There was a postcard in the envelope and it read: 

 

click and read on

Read more
The wool concierge

The wool concierge

Can the customer questions usually asked in a brick and mortar LYS be answered in the same way when we (shop owners) are now all selling online?

Yes they can, the wool concierge will help you with all your needs. But don't 'forget them' when you leave. 

Or alternatively collect all the information you need from blogposts and shop's f.a.q.'s before you shop, completely for free. 

Read more
Ja, Wol sluit voorlopig winkel, webwinkel blijft open

Ja, Wol sluit voorlopig winkel, webwinkel blijft open

In verband met het helpen beperken van de verspreiding van het Coronavirus neemt Ja, Wol een aantal maatregelen.  De stenen winkel van Ja, Wol gaat voorlopig dicht. De webwinkel blijft...
Read more
Ja, Wol & Corona

Ja, Wol & Corona

Hier vind je twee belangrijke documenten. Ik vraag je ze goed door te nemen. Het is onze beleid v.w.b. het Corona virus en hoe wij hier als organisatie mee omgaan. Wat...
Read more
Ja, Wol / Nee, Katoen

Ja, Wol / Nee, Katoen

(Yes, Wool / No, Cotton) When the first wee floers* (I learned to speak a wee bit of Shetland dialect a while back..) start to appear, the first people come...
Read more
RALLY DRIVING AND WOOL BUYING (on navigating and choices)

RALLY DRIVING AND WOOL BUYING (on navigating and choices)

One of my biggest wishes came true last weekend. I went rally driving! Ever since I was a kid I have wanted to step into a car and wildly but...
Read more
F.A.Q. When do I get my order?

F.A.Q. When do I get my order?

Ordering from Ja, Wol is like knitting a sweater, sometimes it's so much faster then you expect but sometimes it takes more time. The end result in any case is...
Read more
F.O.K.S., my knitting SOCKS!

F.O.K.S., my knitting SOCKS!

I was a latent sock knitter for the longest time...  Meaning that I never knit socks but knew that I would love to start knitting them. What held me back...
Read more
Tugging at Heartstrings

Tugging at Heartstrings

This februari it has been 10 years since I first opened a knit shop. It started with a modest Etsy shop, selling knit kits and knitting lessons. In 10 years a lot has happened... and the new year brings new ideas and new challenges. Let me tell you the story of Ja, Wol and my plans for the future...
Read more
Ja, Wol-breisters breien voor buideldieren

Ja, Wol-breisters breien voor buideldieren

DEZE ACTIE IS NU AFGELOPEN toegevoegd: Actie verlengt tot 25 januari.  De brei-gemeenschap stortte zich de afgelopen weken op het breien van buidels voor verweesde Australische buideldieren. Meagan Kerr bracht de...
Read more