Skein Sisters - Sydney's home of fabulous yarn

Welcome to Sydney's destination yarn store, supplying an exciting range of fabulous yarn, accessories and classes to inspire our wonderful crafting community

Come on in...

Skein Sisters offers a thoughtfully curated selection of creative and contemporary yarns from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, US, Ireland, Europe, Canada and South America. Our focus is on natural fibres and breed specific yarns, and whether it's your workhorse yarn or a special, covetable, luxury yarn, we have a range of price points to suit everyone. We stock a huge range of yarns, needles and hooks, notions, patterns and publications, as well as accessories. And if there's something you'd love... well, then tell us!

Skein Sisters is home for the crafting community.

Unfortunately, Covid-19 restrictions mean that our comfy couches have been popped in storage for the moment but we still love to have a chat and see what you've been making.

Meet the 'Sisters'

Skein Sisters is the culmination of years of dreaming and planning by long-term friends Deb McDonald and Janine Smith (that's Deb on the left). It is a love of delicious yarns and accessories, together with a desire to share these wonderful treasures that led to Deb and Janine opening the store in April 2017. Frustrated by not being able to find what they wanted locally, and disheartened by the expensive and time-consuming process of ordering overseas, the friends set about sourcing the products they love to delight and inspire local crafters.

Both grew up in homes filled with knitting and sewing. Deb's first career was in retail, fashion and textiles where she worked in fabric production and several stores including the Ladies Knitwear department of Harrods, London. She took a side step in her late 20s into the world of plants and became one of Australia's leading gardening journalists, editing a national magazine, writing books and newspaper columns, and appearing at events and on radio. Deb is thrilled to be working in her first love of fibres and textiles.

Janine pursued a career in the world of advertising and marketing including over 10 years in a variety of roles with Network Ten television. Positions with Reebok Australia, Ogilvy and Mather, Major League Baseball and two wildly fun years running the UK marketing of a leading London-based casino group, have made for a rewarding career. Most recently both Deb and Janine have been fortunate enough to be involved with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the vital work of the Foundation & Friends of the Botanic Gardens.

Over three years on, they are both so grateful that Skein Sisters has found its place at the heart of Australia's crafting community.

Come in. Sit. Knit. Crochet. Chat. Shop. Learn. Share.

In Sydney's home of fabulous yarn. Skein Sisters.

Because we all deserve fabulous yarn.

Meet the Team

Our team at Skein Sisters are the ones who will make your visit truly special. Linda, Jane, Maria, Helen, Julia, Olga, Lia, Nikki, Marghie and Andrea all have a passion for making and amazing knitting and crochet skills that they love to share.

Pop in or give us a call - we're always here to help.

Skein Sisters is proud to support Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Womens Legal Centre

Wirringa Baiya provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children in NSW with a gender-specific service sensitive to their culturally diverse needs; and to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women victims-survivors of violence with access to appropriate legal representation, advocacy, advice, and referral. The Centre's values are that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women manage the service, be non- profit-making, and pay special attention to the needs of economically and socially disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children.

Wirringa Baiya was the first and only Aboriginal women's legal centre managed by Aboriginal women in New South Wales, and the first within Australia. To find out more about this wonderful organisation view their website here. To donate and support their work, follow this link

WE VALUE AND RESPECT THE PRIVACY OF OUR CUSTOMERS HENCE THE MANAGEMENT OF THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT IS IMPORTANT TO US.

This privacy policy sets out how Skein Sisters uses and protects any information that you give Skein Sisters when you use this website. Skein Sisters is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Skein Sisters may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

We collect personal information about our users in order to enhance your experience as a visitor to, or customer of, our website. The better we understand our customers and their preferences, the more relevant and useful content we will be able to deliver. We use this information to better understand the interest in various aspects of our website, (with your consent) to contact you with information about our products and services as well as assigning preferences in our Customer Relationship Management system.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at [@CONFIG:COMPANY_EMAIL@]

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to 721 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill NSW 2203 ABN 30616356462.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Should you request in writing, we will remove you as a subscriber and your personal details from our mailing lists.

If you have any queries regarding our Privacy Policy or the security of our website, please contact us at [@CONFIG:COMPANY_EMAIL@]

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