The Stash Depot

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get all the wool out from 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, all the wool that you’re not knitting with (or ever likely to), and find a way to get it into the hands of people who would love to knit with it?

That’s why we created the Stash Depot – a place where unwanted wool can change hands and miraculously turn into wanted wool.

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, sweater-for-less-ers, yarn explorers, first-timers, pompom makers, students, and anyone who fancies a rummage, can leave the shop with super-affordable yarn and all the new knitting possibilities that opens up.

The Stash Depot works as much for knitters who put yarn into it and the ones who take it out. 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..