Help us create a permanent home for Market Town Yarns, securing our future and creating a space for our knitting community.
Our Story
Every great adventure starts somewhere.
Ours started in a shed in our garden.
With a passion for beautiful yarns, plenty of determination and a dream of creating something special, we launched Yarn Worx as an online-only business. Every order was packed by hand, every customer email answered personally, and every milestone – no matter how small – felt like a huge achievement.
Then, not long after we began, the world changed. Covid happened.
Like thousands of independent businesses, we suddenly found ourselves navigating an uncertain future. Yet through it all, one thing became clear: people value creativity, community and making things with their hands. Knitting and crochet became a source of comfort for so many, and we were incredibly grateful to play a small part in that.
As Yarn Worx grew, so did our ambitions.
Before long, our little log cabin could no longer keep up. We took the next step and moved into a small industrial unit, giving us the space to expand our range of yarns and accessories while keeping up with the growing number of orders.
By April 2023, we'd outgrown that space too and moved into our current shop on Hadleigh High Street in Suffolk.
Today, we're proud to welcome customers through our doors while, under our Market Town Yarns brand, we hand-dye exclusive yarn collections, design and make knitting and crochet accessories, and send our products to makers across the UK and beyond.
Over the past seven years we've grown carefully, one step at a time, always reinvesting in the business and always looking forward to what comes next.
The Next Chapter
For the first time, owning a permanent home for our business feels within reach.
We've found a commercial property locally that has everything we've been dreaming of since those early days in our garden log cabin.
Owning our own premises would mean far more than simply buying a building.
It would mean putting down roots.
It would give us the confidence to invest in the future, expand our dye studio, improve our production and dispatch facilities, create new products, host more workshops, and continue growing without the uncertainty that comes with renting.
After seven years of growing from a garden log cabin, to an industrial unit, to our High Street shop, we're ready for the next chapter.
For now, we're keeping the exact location under wraps while the purchase progresses, but we can tell you it's less than five minutes from our current shop and comes with something many of our customers have wished for...
Free parking!
We'll be sharing everything as soon as we're able.
Why We're Crowdfunding
Everything we've built over the last seven years has been achieved through hard work, determination and a willingness to invest in ourselves.
Like many small businesses, we didn't start with outside investors or large amounts of capital. We built Yarn Worx using our own savings, remortgaging our home, business loans and, at times, even credit cards. We believed in our dream enough to take those risks, and we've continued to reinvest in the business every step of the way.
Every move we've made has been funded through careful planning, hard work and the incredible support of our customers. We've never taken shortcuts, and we're incredibly proud of how far we've come.
Now we're ready to make what we hope will be our final move.
The purchase of our new premises will be funded primarily through a commercial mortgage. This crowdfunding campaign is to raise the £40,000 deposit needed to secure the property and make that purchase possible.
We aren't asking you to fund our business - we're asking you to help us secure its future.
Every contribution, no matter the size, will help us take that next step.
Your support won't simply help us buy a building.
It will help secure the future of an independent family business. It will allow us to expand our hand-dyeing and production facilities, create more products, host more workshops and events, and continue serving the knitting and crochet community for many years to come.
Most importantly, it will help create a permanent home for Yarn Worx and Market Town Yarns - a place where we can continue creating, growing and welcoming makers for many years to come.
We know this is an ambitious goal, but if the last seven years have taught us anything, it's that incredible things can happen when a community comes together.
If Yarn Worx or Market Town Yarns has ever inspired your creativity, helped you learn something new, or simply brought a little joy to your knitting or crochet journey, we'd be honoured if you would consider becoming part of our story.
Your generous pledges won't be for nothing, we have put together a list of rewards which you can read about further on. Or, if you’d simply like to support our project without choosing a reward, you can make a donation of any amount. Every pledge, no matter how big or small, brings us one step closer to creating the forever home of Yarn Worx and Market Town Yarns.
Thank you for believing in us and for helping us write the next chapter.
Gavin & Teresa
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 27th August 2026 at 6:54pm