05 August 2021

Celebrating fifteen years of TOFT! 

This week (from 15:00 BST 5th August  - 15:00 BST 12th August 2021) TOFT celebrates fifteen years in business, and what better way to do that than with cake! Real cake, crocheted cake, and FREE cupcake patches being packed into every order. 

15% OFF 
Shop with us this week and you’ll save 15% across our entire website (excludes existing bundle deals already offering a discount). There’s no need for a code, just enjoy a browse, fill up your basket and checkout to save 15% on your next knitting or crochet project, book for your bookshelf or any of our haberdashery range.

FREE PATTERN 
Download a free cupcake pattern and hook up your own TOFT birthday cake. Complete with candle and i-cord icing that can be knitted or crocheted, this is a great pattern to add to your go-to library for birthday presents! 

FREE CUPCAKE PATCH 
Place an online order this weekend and you’ll receive a specially designed birthday cupcake patch in each parcel. Each patch colour has a matching fruit or confectionary crochet topper pattern to finish your handmade cupcake to perfection. There are nine different coloured cupcake patches (Yellow, Lime, Blue, Turquoise, Orange, Magenta, Pink, Ruby and Amethyst) which will be allocated randomly into each parcel, all with their own unique topper pattern to make your cupcake look good enough to eat.

 

15 YEARS PIN BADGE 
Get your hands on a commemorative 15 years TOFT enamel pin to mark the celebration. This collectable enamel pin badge captures the iconic TOFT yarn label that we are all very familiar with removing from balls of yarn as the first stage of any new project. 

Design features include a cutout hole and birthday balloon. This is a limited edition batch of 1500 pins. Backer colours are assorted, but all pins are identical and will be randomly allocated.

15 YEARS TOTE BAG 
We would like to thank everyone who entered the design competition this Spring to create a new Birthday tote bag planned to be released this week. We are very disappointed to say that due to ongoing COVID supply challenges, the winning design tote bags are currently en-route but will not make it to HQ until late September. Upon their arrival they will be the packing totes across all of our orders to celebrate our 15th Birthday. Congratulations to Jo White, who submitted the winning design – a preview of which you can see below!

 

HOMEGROWN ALPACA YARN *****NOW SOLD OUT*****
Order fast if you want to get your hands on the first exclusively-HQ alpaca batches of yarn in a decade! Our homegrown pure baby alpaca yarns are very rare and a special treat for your hooks and needles.

This is a rare chance to get your hands on four skeins of less than one tonne of homegrown 100% alpaca yarn from the fleeces of the TOFT herd. Grazing the fields around our HQ, this exclusive and very limited batch yarn is made from blending together only the finest baby alpaca fleeces to produce four distinct undyed shades named after four of our top alpaca stud males.

Skywalker: the great, great grandfather of the TOFT herd, this legendary stud was imported from the altiplano of Peru in 2000 at an unknown age and came to live out his years in our fields in Warwickshire. He gave us show-winner after show-winner and made perhaps the biggest single-animal impact on our breeding programme with his very soft and very fine fibre. Closest TOFT shade to this colour: ‘Chestnut’.

Tornado: son of the renowned ‘Tulley’, Tornado’s beautiful light fawn fleece is the colour of ripened grain in late-summer fields. When sheared this stunning alpaca cuts the equivalent quality fleece of a two-year-old despite his age, and passes the traits of an exceptionally fine and lustrous fleece onto all his sons and daughters. Along with his superior fleece characteristics, you can also spot his progeny in our fields by their beautiful fluffy ears! Closest TOFT shade to this colour: ‘Oatmeal’.

Timogen: The National Alpaca Show brown champion for two consecutive years, Timogen is a stunning stud male combining TOFT’s famous Skywalker and Tulley bloodlines. An outstandingly rich dark brown fleece with the density and fineness of both his grandfathers. Closest TOFT shade to this colour: ‘Cocoa’.

Harima: the newest kid of the block here at HQ, Harima is a 6th generation TOFT animal. Although not yet siring any progeny, he’ll be starting a working career at TOFT this season and we can’t wait to meet his cria for the first time in twelve months! Closest TOFT shade to this colour: ‘Camel’. 

 

Skywalker Tornado Timogen Harima

 

 


*Terms and Conditions

15% Off
Discount runs from 15:00 BST on 5th August to 15:00 BST on 12 August 2021. Prices are as shown with 15% off already applied. Offer does not include any products that are already discounted as part of a bundle deal. Offer excludes any pre-order products. Discount has been applied to www.toftuk.com only and not to any of our subscription services. 

FREE Patch
Shop with us online from 15:00 BST on 5th August to 15:00 BST on 12 August 2021 and you’ll receive a free cupcake patch inside your order. You’ll find a pattern for a cupcake topper on the back of each patch, corresponding to the colour of your patch. Patches are allocated randomly and subject to availability while stocks last. Free collectable patch offer is valid on physical items only - excludes .pdf patterns and gift vouchers. Available while stocks last. Patches cannot be exchanged or refunded. 

FREE Download
A free download .pdf for TOFT's Birthday Cupcake crochet pattern will be available from 15:00 BST on 5th August to 15:00 BST on 12 August 2021. Please add the FREE cupcake pattern to your basket before checking out.

We are anticipating a high volume of orders this weekend, so please bear with us whilst we prepare your order for dispatch. All of our delivery partners are facing unprecedented pressure on their systems from the huge volumes they are seeing, which means there may be some delays. If you need your order urgently, please consider upgrading your delivery option to ‘express’.

Please note that stock on some lines is limited and we cannot guarantee availability on all yarn colours for the duration of the event.