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Support through thick and thin (wool)

In a time before the shop I used to work with a small team of web developers and computer technicians building online projects for change-making...
Heritage

Knitting for misfits

‘Oh, you knit in a funny way, you've got the wool in the other hand!' I've tried and failed to knit with wool 'the other...
Travels with knitting

Unfortunately.. fortunately..

It was the Thursday before going away, and the Unfortunately.. Fortunately.. game started playing out in real life. Unfortunately the postman arrived early and Vi didn't manage to...
Knitters

Julia

It was Christmas Eve 2018. There were a last few last-minuters coming in for row counters and stitch markers to bulk out stockings, but the...
Knitters

Gail

Carrot cake, lemon cake, chocolate cake.. Gail never arrives at the shop without a cake, her knitting and a smile that lights up the room....
Knitters

Sabira

There was something a little magical about Sabira's arrival at the Winter 2019 Sweater Club. Never mind that she'd only booked her place hours before...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The point(lessness) of no return

I spent a good deal of my 30s standing at bus stops, screwing my eyes up into the middle distance trying to work out whether...
Knitters

Cara

I think of Cara and I hear the shop door swinging open and see her entering with a slightly perplexed look, and know it's time...
Knitters

Francine

⁠ Francince Merry walked into the shop on a sunny morning just a few months after I opened in 2014, wearing a fabulously elaborately cabled...

Helen

I’m beginning this series with Helen Eatherton, a prolific and skilled knitter who lives by the Essex coast. I follow her progress by the books...
The shop

Here I am

There was a time in the early days of the shop that I kept a clipboard next to the till. It had a biro tied...