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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,...
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...
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...
Knitsplaining

The Madonna of the Yarn Winder

Is there really a Madonna of the Yarn Winder? Well there's a painting with that name by Leonardo Da Vinci that shows the Madonna, her...
Life in the day of a wool shop

Overheard in the woolshop this week

So much for autumn. The somersaulting seasons of the UK have just landed us back in high summer again, with the hottest temperatures all year....
The shop

Which way for Autumn?

It's clouded over, we're wearing socks again and there's that lanyard-swinging deliberateness in the way that people are walking down the street. September seems to...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Come steek with me..

The summer holiday knitting project dilemma has become as familiar as the smell of cocount sunscreen in my getting-ready-to-go-away story. There's an irony here given...
Pattern round-ups

Knit Your Own Summer Part 4

This final part of our KYOS series for 2023 is a travel edit, specially for weekend-awayers, back packers, cycle tourers, and last-minute-trippers. These are your...
Travels with knitting

The Berlin Wool

The sunflower yellow S-bahn arced its way around an elevated sweep of railway, like a welcoming smile on platform 15 of the Berlin Hauptbanhof. There's...