Anna

The shop

Looking back (through the windows)

Gift advice for what to buy the avid/newbie/lapsed uncles/sisters-in-law/nephews.. project-planning for surviving the week with family.. gigantic deliveries to restock our runaway yarns.. packing parcels to catch the post and filling up all those tins: The way that December has picked up speed and then crescendoed into its own woolly symphony, has turned these last …

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Does what it says on the tin

Yeah right – What tin?? If I had a tin for everyone who says that it does what it says on it, I’d be a tinillionaire. There’s never a tin, and I bloomin love tins. So show me the tin! Well you did ask.. Oh my goodness me! You meant it – You’ve made a …

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Worth a read..

The limited shelf space that we have in the shop means that Brontë and I spend a lot of time thinking really hard about which books we’d like to keep on them. Luckily the indie knitting publishing scene, has become an ever richer seam to draw from. Meanwhile it’s no secret that with so many …

Life in the day of a wool shop

The windowiest window of the year

There’s a hint of wistfulness that can set in when dismantling a window display. It’s a bit like the undoing of a spell: the one that magically transformed a borrowed 1960s typewriter on a desk on top of an old moth-eaten rug, into a fantastical keyboard where the beginning of a story is being typed …

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

This knitter will wait for a short time for a change of needles to take place

If you ever take a 106 bus north up Cambridge Heath road towards Clapton you’ll know to expect a little delay when the bus pulls into the stop after the bridge over Regent’s Canal. “This bus will wait for a short time for a change of drivers to take place” says London Transport’s disembodied voice …

Meet the maker

Soul Wool

“They are the most beautiful sheep you’ve ever seen. Both the ewes and the rams have amazing horns – a sort of swept-back affair.” Jenn Monohan is talking to me from her home in Elsing, a small village in Norfolk where she runs her yarn business, Fibreworkshop. She’s telling me about the Norfolk Horn sheep …

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Reasons to Cast on now

To start something now or leave it for later? At Wild and Woolly we love lists almost as much as we love a cast-on, so we decided to write this list for the knitters who are in need of a gentle push. Don’t fret if none of the below apply to you. We’ve got plenty …

Pattern round-ups

Just the One

Fairy lights in shop windows and forlorn looking pumpkins in wheely bins have appeared like signposts warning us that we’re nearly there. Halloween is over, fireworks are beginning to pop, and the gift-knitting deadline is almost in view. Now I know there are knitters out there that are well prepared for the year’s sprint finish: …

The shop

Welcome Everyone!

It’s around about this time of year that we start seeing a lot of new faces in the shop. Earlier evenings and colder mornings have their own quiet way of suggesting that now might be a good time to make a start on, or go back to, knitting. Likewise there have been lots of new …

Pattern round-ups

Unboxing the autumn

Deliveries, boxes and unpacking: The last weeks have sometimes felt like we are taking delivery of autumn itself – just in a woollen form. Parcels make their long way west across Europe and south from Scotland and the north of England. Our missing colourways are restocked and we finally get to welcome the 3 new …