Welcome to Sanday

an island full of spinners

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What we do

tools and equipment for crafters View our Product Lines

  • KnitPro

    Quality Knitting tools from KnitPro. We will deliver your KnitPro order, no matter how many items you buy, for just one low price of £1.00. Spend £25 or more, and we will send you your KnitPro for free! We have straight, fixed circular, double pointed and interchangeable needles in Symfonie, Nova and Spectra ranges.  The [...]

  • Ashford

    We sell Ashford Spinning and Weaving equipment at very competitive prices, and postage and packing on Ashford wheels and looms is free of charge to all UK purchasers. There will always be some really exceptional Special Offers available, particularly our discounts on combination purchases. Please take a look at these before buying.

  • Sanday hand-crafted

    We are proud to sell a range of locally sourced hand-made items, including hand-turned spinning tools made by Jim Towrie – our Sanday Niddy Noddy is our most popular sale.    

  • Courses

    If you do not already spin, we can teach you how — why not book an Introduction to Spinning course. Courses offer individual attention and are tailored to your needs. Beginner spinners can benefit from our new Learn to Spin kit. If you buy one of these kits, we’ll knock a little extra off the [...]

  • Fleece

    Spinners, we have a small quantity of whole raw fleeces from Gill’s own Hillside flock of rare breed sheep, raised here on Sanday. Gill keeps Shetland, Hebridean and Jacob sheep and some cross-breeds.

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Sanday Spinners History

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The Sanday Spinners are following a long line of Orcadian and Sanday textile tradition; spinning selected local fleeces with care. We handspin raw fleece on spinning wheels and make the resulting yarns into attractive and useful items, through knitting, weaving, and felting. The Census of 1841 records that eight Sanday women gave their industry as [...]

On the blog...

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  • The kettle’s on

    May 18, 2013

    Just a reminder that it is that time of year again and we shall be at home to visitors next weekend for the first Sanday Soulka of the year. Just one small change this time, we are not opening on Sunday as both Gill and Beth are taking a rare opportunity to go sail-about on the Varagen’s [...]

  • Conundrum winner

    May 8, 2013

    There was only one correct entry submitted for our Knit Crochet Blog Week puzzle.  Trundlebug is the lucky winner of a pair of lovely Knitpro Karbonz fixed circular needles. She’s having some in a sock size and they a re now packaged and ready for posting to her. We hope that Liz will write us [...]

  • Something Different: Solution

    May 6, 2013

    Our crossword puzzle competition for Knit Crochet Blog week is now closed. No further entries can be considered. We shall be in touch with the winner soon.    

What you say about us

The wedding went very well. It was very very hot in Cyprus. The stole looked fantastic, I was very pleased with it.
MOL Knitwear commissioning customer
It’s gorgeous, thank you so much. It feels much softer than I imagined and I love the colour … I’m sure my husband will love it. I can’t wait to see the look on his face!
FM Handspun knitwear commissioning customer