That drawer on wheels

‘Ask her about the drawer.‘

The drawer?

‘Yes [sheepishly], my friend said there’s a drawer… A drawer with wool in in it.. That no one wants.. And everything only costs £2. Is that for real?’

Ahh, you mean the Stash Depot! Why yes, it’s in a drawer but it’s not wool that no one wants. It’s just that the person who had it in the first place doesn’t want it anymore. So they’ve brought it in here to go into the drawer. And yes, it only costs £2.

It’s simple. We invite anyone with yarn at home that they’re not using and never likely to – the wool you have in your underbed boxes, the cupboard under the stairs, the projects you’re pretending you might one day finish but can’t even remember what they started as – and to bring it into the shop for our Stash Depot drawer.

Once it’s in the drawer, we sell it to knitters, crocheters, pompom makers, have-a-goers, crafters, halloween costumers, doll-makers, and anyone who does want it, for £2/ball.

Here’s how it works..

• Knitters bring or send their unwanted balls of wool (moth-free, unused, complete with ball bands) to the shop, and receive a Stash Dealer number.
• We label each ball of wool with its dealer number and put it into our Stash Depot Drawer.
• All the yarn in the Stash Depot Drawer is sold for £2 per ball. Acrylic, cashmere, wool, alpaca, lurex, hand dyed, whatever it is, it’s all £2 a ball.
• Whenever a ball of Stash Depot yarn is sold, £1 goes to the shop and £1 is credited to the Stash Dealer who brought it in. They can use their credit to buy more wool that they really do want, or alternatively donate it to our Yarn Forward project .
• Meanwhile bargain hunters leave the shop with super-affordable yarn and all the new knitting possibilities that opens up.

You can take your pick of which is your favourite win from the Stash Depot:

The profound feeling of well being that you get from clearing out a cluttered space? 
The joy of stocking up with yarn for a knitting project that previously seemed out of reach? 
The balance that’s restored when things get moved to their rightful place in terms of where they’re most useful? 
The pleasing tickle you feel when you discover you’ve got £20 to spend in the wool shop that you didn’t realise you had? 

It just works for everyone! The knitters who contribute yarn and the knitters who pick it out of the drawer: They’re all helping to carry on cycling the yarn around, getting it from where it was to where it needs to be so that it can finally turn into hats, mitts, sweaters, pompoms and and other things to keep everyone warm.

If you’d like to contribute yarn to the Stash Depot, just send an email to stashdepot@wildandwoollyshop.co.uk with a brief description of how much and what sort of yarn you’d like to drop off. If you’d like to shop the Stash Depot, you’ll find it in a big drawer opposite our bookshelves where you come into the shop..