It just jumped into my shopping basket by itself, honest...

Ha, ha, ha, of course it did, that is my story and I'm sticking to it.  Last year they were earlier than the previous year and this year they are even earlier!  5th September last year is the date that World of Wool released pre-order for their annual Fibre Advent Calendar.  This year it was 31st July!  That is that date that I ordered it, no messing around.  The price has gone up a bit, again, but I was kind of expecting that anyway.  Because of the amount of money it costs it automatically triggers a 5% discount on the website and the money you save pretty much covers the cost of delivery within the UK.  

Last year it was a limited edition of 250 and this year it has risen to 500.  Last year there were 24 x 50g bumps of fibre, this year it has risen to 25 x 50g bumps of fibre.  This years theme is "Christmas Characters", inspired by Christmas Characters past and present.  This is their fourth Advent Calendar and it will be presented in a black gift box for the third year in row and the individual bags are similar to last years but feature a different style of design printed on the bags. They have now released some photos and I am pretty excited.  The designs on the bags appear to be a mix of modern and nostalgic Christmas wrapping paper patterns and it looks like the bags will only have a number printed on them this year, rather than all the details which kind of ruined the surprise a little last year whilst looking for the right bag to open each day.  All the fibre details and information about the Christmas Characters are printed in a booklet.  The Advent Calendars will be shipped from November.

This year they are also doing a matching Yarn Advent Calendar, exactly the same blends and fibres as the Fibre one but it's pre-spun for you.  It is considerably more expensive though but then once you factor in the labour costs of spinning it, it's probably not that bad.  It is a limited edition of just 100, I guess that is to see how popular it will be. 25 x 50g of Double Knit yarn in a handy cardboard tubes within the black gift box with the same book as the fibres.