We hear a lot these days about the therapeutic benefits of knitting. Amongst other things it’s claimed that knitting can lower blood pressure, reduce depression and anxiety, slow the onset of dementia, even be a distraction from chronic pain and reduce loneliness and isolation.  But I’ve got to level with you. It’s not always like … Can you feel it?

“I love this teal-y blue. It’s so beautiful. It’s such a shame I can’t wear it.” There is a version of this colour choosing agony we go through most days of the week in the shop. Sometimes it starts with a list of colours which were approved as skin tone compliant by a bossy friend … That’s the Colour!

More accustomed to celebrating small-scale, slow-pace making, I’m both thrilled and not a little nervous to reveal our latest and truly gigantic news..You may want to grab a hold of your project bag and check bus routes to the West End – For the month of April, Wild and Woolly is taking over the old … West One, Here We Come!

I have a confession to make. I don’t always swatch.I know I know I know. How can you  trust a knitting shop keeper who doesn’t always stick with the (swatching) programme? In my defense my swatch-knitting slackness is mostly confined to projects with yarns that I’ve used before or things where the size doesn’t really matter … Confessions of a slack swatcher