December 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to our last Newsletter of the year.

The end of the year has taken us a bit by surprise, we thought we had ages to do this newsletter then suddenly we are out of time

Information included in this newsletter includes our Last Posting Date, Holiday Hours and info about Royal Mail prices. We also have our normal new items section, which will be in brief. You can see full details of new items on our  Customer Forum and the New Items page.

Last Posting Date and Holiday Opening Hours

Friday 19th December 2025 is the Royal Mail last posting date for delivery of Tracked RM48 before Christmas. We will endeavour that orders received before 1.30pm on Friday 19th December 2025 will be posted on Friday 19th December 2025 - subject to stock availability and assuming no Pre-orders are on the order. Delivery is then in the hands of Royal Mail but we do always email you the Tracking Number and they should email you, or text you, confirming the delivery day.

Any order placed after 1.30pm on Friday 19th December 2025 will be held securely until we re-open on Tuesday 6th January 2026.

The Shopping Basket will still be active so you can place your orders as normal at any time over the holidays. Your details will be held on a 128 encryption Secure Server until we re-open. Unfortunately you will not be able to phone your card details while the office is closed.

All these dates are subject to stock availability and may be changed if there are any unforeseen circumstances. Our Holiday Opening Page will be updated if anything changes

New items

We have decided to show the new pattern leaflets in this section and just mention any new yarns & colours. As always full details are on our Customer Forum and the New Items page.

James C. Brett have several new yarns (currently on Pre-order) which have Pattern Leaflets (in stock) showing the colours.

However one new yarn does not have Pattern Leaflets - JCB Boom Super Chunky Scarf Yarn comes in 6 ombré colours in 100 gram Balls but it does have 2 Scarf patterns on the ball band.

JCB Elegance DK Yarn - this new yarn, which comes in 10 colours in 50 gram Balls with metallic thread, some mohair and wool, has the following 6 new pattern leaflets - JB987 to JB992.

JCB Aurora Chunky - this new yarn, which comes in 8 multi-colours in 100g balls with 20% wool, has the following 6 new pattern leaflets - JB999 to JB1004

JCB Undertones Super Chunky - this new yarn, which comes in 12 colours in 100 gram balls, has the following 6 new pattern leaflets - JB993 to JB998

The following new patterns are a Teddy Bear in JCB Flutterby Chunky (JB1013) and 4 in JCB Baby Twinkle Prints DK - JB982 to JB985.

There is also a new yarn from Wendy - Supreme Super Chunky comes in 16 colours in 100 gram Balls with the following 6 new Pattern Leaflets, all are currently on Pre-order.

There are 9 new colours in JCB Top Value DK (8490 to 8498), 7 new colours in JCB It's Pure Cotton DK (IC42 to IC48), 4 new colours in JCB Baby Twinkle Prints DK (BTP40 to BTP43) and 4 new colours in JCB Marble Chunky (MC126 to MC129).

All are currently on Pre-Order, the next time we are ordering from our suppliers is at 1.30pm on 6th January 2026, please order before that day/time if you would like any of the Pre-orders in this newsletter.

Craft Kits and Gifts

Craft Kits is one of our Sister websites, along with Craft Bits. We include new items from Craft Kits & Gifts in our Newsletters as we know a lot of our customers also shop with CK, who do not have a Newsletter of their own. Craft Bits & Bobs does have a newsletter and you can sign up for that on their Updates Page.

Full details of new kits can be found on the DKY Forum Craft Kits Section of our Forum and on the New Items page on the CK website.

Royal Mail and P+P costs

We would like to assure our customers that we will continue to use Royal Mail for all our large letters and parcels, we will NEVER use EVRI 

We have a set contract with Royal Mail which goes up every year in December, so we do not have 2 price rises a year like normal post prices. However it does mean the rise is usually quite a bit as they have to put all that years price rises into one.

Once again they have put our prices up by more than the prices other people can get at the Post Office, but we have not been able to change their minds this year

We pay a flat rate for all Large Letters up to 750g and that price has risen by quite a bit. A lot of our customers do just buy one pattern leaflet and pay the current lower P+P price of £2.65, but you can order up to 11 patterns for that price. Books are also included in that lower P+P price, up to 3, plus some accessories like short needles, or a mix of these items. Full details with a chart for all options are shown on our Postage and Packing Costs page online. The shopping basket automatically updates so you can always remove an item if the P+P jumps up to the £3.80 parcel price.

Remember you get FREE P+P on any UK order which goes over £40. Why not get together with friends to make the most of the P+P costs.

On top of the headline price from Royal Mail, we also pay extra subsidies called Fuel and Green, the first is to pay for the extra cost of fuel and the green is to change their fleet to electric, but both keep going up, which doesn't make sense!

From mid November to mid January we also pay a Peak Subsidy to apparently pay for extra staff to process all the extra parcels during the sales and Christmas. Again this does not make sense to us as surely the extra parcels should pay for extra staff, not us, their customers

With the price rise and peak subsidy, our Large Letters are costing us quite a bit more than we charge, especially on single pattern leaflet orders which make us hardly anything. But we are mindful that customers can't afford high postage costs, especially when other suppliers have very low P+P, but they probably use EVRI. We will take the loss for now and look to see what we can do over the next few months.

Please do Contact Us if you have any comments on any of the above.

You can contact us via Facebook (DKYarns), Twitter (@cpu_dky), the DKY Forum, or by e-mailing us contact@knitting-yarn.co.uk

We hope you found something interesting above, if not let us know what info you would like to see. We really value your comments and look forward to hearing from you.

All Staff at CPU Enterprises, Dianne's Knitting Yarns, Craft Bits and Craft Kits wish you Happiness over this holiday time and a Prosperous New Year

Best Regards

Dianne's Knitting Yarns
CPU Enterprises
www.knitting-yarn.co.uk

17.12.25