Knitting Stories

Heritage

Happy Mendings

We used to keep a pile of mending when I was a child, for my granny to do when she came to visit. It was...

Knitsplaining

Apples and pears with Sophie

Knitters count and they do it a lot: we count ourselves all around necks, yokes, bodies and sleeves, we count our way through elaborate lace...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Ode to My Socks

Regardless who comes and what brought them here, the Absolute Beginners knitting class always seems to end with the sense that something wonderous happened in...

Life in the day of a wool shop

Overheard in the wool shop

"Oooh it must be lovely working in a wool shop. I'd love to have a job where I got to sit around and knit all...

Pattern round-ups

Another round of toast?

We'd been getting requests for months, or possibly even years, before I finally caved and did a round-up - about this time last year I...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Love letter to a sweater

Why must love be something we fall into? After all it doesn't sit below us. With you, it felt more like somewhere we climbed to....

The shop

Uncountable Values

For a serial procrastinator like me, deadlines can be equal parts terrifying and reassuring: On the one hand there's the enormousness of how overwhelming the...

Life in the day of a wool shop

Into the beyond

I was trying and failing to steady the skate which I'd hung from the rack on the cieling. The weight of the the boot kept...

The shop

Hello, How’s your knitting?

In the door-swinging-open course of the shop day with all it's 'How-are-you-and-how's-that-sweater-going?' conversations, it's easy to forget that there are a whole bunch of knitters...

Pattern round-ups

Sweaters plain and simple

Don't say boring. Do say blank canvas. As the year stretches ahead of us with plenty of cold weather promise, the what-to-knit-next question seems more...

The shop

I’m sorry are you open?

Yes we're open come on in! Don't you wonder why people keep asking if you're open even when the Open sign is on the door?...

Life in the day of a wool shop

A year in the life of a wool shop window

"Oh is that the shop with the funny window displays?"Hmm, do you mean funny-ha-ha or funny-peculiar? Sometimes I think the shop is better known by...