Stitch & Story - closed?

[downtonupton]

Hi
do any of you ever use Stitch & Story site? I have bought both kits and yarn from there and wanted to get some particular chunky yarn to make a Christmas present - but the website has been closed to orders for the last few days - says closed for maintenance.

Have any of you heard anything? it's not closing down is it? I rather like it as a site.

Alternatively - any recommendations for a dupe yarn: www.stitchandstory.com/collections/chunky-super-chunky/products/the-chunky-wool-100g-balls?variant=40304037986454

The ones at Wool & the Gang & We Are Kintters are £17.50 a 200g skein which is too expensive.

I need it to be natural and not synthetic yarn

thank you

They just announced on insta that they have gone into administration... sad to see them go.. I loved their stuff

If you still need to buy yarn have you looked at one of the big box sites e.g love crafts or wool warehouse.

I had a quick look on love crafts.

Rowan Big Wool can be a little scratchy in my experience.

I've not felt the millamia super chunky but I really rate their DK weight and have used it a lot for kids garments. If i had to make a choice I would choose this and it is 1/3rd of at the moment so works out at £13.32 for 200g.

www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/millamia-naturally-soft-super-chunky

If your budget is really tight you could try the lana grossa but again. I've no experience of it.

thank you - I ended up at Wool Warehouse in the end and got this:

www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/drops-snow-off-white-01-50g

it's not as chunky nor as soft as I wanted but have doubled up and it is doing the job - it is a shame that S&S has gone - but looking at social media it seems there are lot of people who paid for orders that haven't arrived.

I'm sure that I will find what I want with trial and error.