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Knitting out of the box

There’s something pleasingly tidy about a kit. It’s the yarn, the pattern and a secret magic ingredient which comes by virtue of it being all boxed up, that makes the whole thing unpackable, make-able and realisable. There’s nothing vague or gently nudging about where to go with it. Neither is it in danger of being … Knitting out of the box

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3..2..1.. December!

And just like that, the year picked up speed and we’ve hurtled through to the last lap. With the marvellous help of The Sunny Sign Co’s window painter, and a troupe of very well dressed knitted bunnies, our end of year window has been transformed into an underground rabbit’s burrow that is twinkling beautifully in … 3..2..1.. December!

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What it says on the Tin – and then some!

Haven’t we been here before? You made a tin last year, I got one and I love it. In fact I think it might just be my favourite tin ever. So you don’t want to know about the new one with the new things in it? You didn’t say it was a NEW tin! Well … What it says on the Tin – and then some!

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Introducing The Nibbles..

“So are we second cousins or first cousins twice removed? Or is that the same thing?” “Actually I think you might be 3rd cousins once removed.” Aunt Odile has the bunnies’ favourite family album on the kitchen table spread open on the family tree page. She painted it herself as an intricate fir tree complete … Introducing The Nibbles..

Pattern round-ups

Sleight of Sleeve

All is not as it seems in hand-knit-land today. No sooner do we congratulate a knitter on the beautiful sweater we can see poking out from inside their jacket, than they give us a cheeky wink and reveal that it’s just a knitted neck. Deliciously warm cuffs turn out to be weird sleevey things that … Sleight of Sleeve

Knitsplaining

Unwinding the unspun yarn

The Manchelopis arrives here in large, shiny black plastic tightly wrapped bundles that put me in mind of the bales you see wrapped in the fields after haymaking in the summer. It comes that way because the 100g plates of yarn are so voluminous in comparison to normal 100g balls or skeins of yarn, that … Unwinding the unspun yarn

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Everything Fits

Anna Husemann sits in the centre of a striped Louis XVI sofa, her face framed by long golden curls and a perfectly straight-cut fringe. Behind her is a studio pinboard of colour swatches, mini skeins, stencil cutouts and magazine clippings. There is an orderliness to the whole arrangement – Anna, the sofa and the items … Everything Fits

Heritage

A short history of thrumming

Is Wild and Woolly starting a side hustle in background noises? Why are you writing about thrumming? No, this isn’t about thrumming as in the humming sound that engines make. This is thrumming as a way of adding an extra layer of unspun wool to the insides of knitted things to make them warmer. Hmm. … A short history of thrumming

Knitting Stories

Well I’m so pleased you asked..

A recent discussion in the shop on solving the problem of a knitter’s too-tight bind off yielded 4 different suggestions from the randomly assembled knitters…  ‘I just pick a size bigger needle and cast off with that‘. ‘It’s always the sewn cable bind off for me.‘ ‘Knit 2 stitches, then put your left needle through … Well I’m so pleased you asked..

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Vulture Culture

“It was when I’d finished knitting the viruses. I started working on a death mask and I looked at it and thought, No. It’s got to be a vulture.“ Harry’s vulture, named Vern, has been stopping passers-by in their tracks, ever since he took up residence in the shop window a couple of weeks ago. … Vulture Culture