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Life in the day of a wool shop

How to Open a Wool Shop Part II

..And then the shop opened. Knitters heard that there was a new yarn store in Hackney and the non-knitters also wanted to see what was...
Life in the day of a wool shop

How to open a wool shop Part I

It was on a sunny Wednesday morning in the spring of 2014. There was a chill in the air, not that different from today. I...
Pattern round-ups

Somewhere in between

There may be practical reasons for dividing the year into 4 separate seasons with beginning and end dates, but real world weather doesn't always seem...
Knitsplaining

Block and Roll

In my knitting-as-a-story sense of a project, there's a pleasing simplicity to the way that the beginning, middle and end, map so nicely onto swatching,...
Meet the maker

Activistas de la lana.

"Now I have to find more wool. There are many flocks, but they don't all have the right wool. Some are more like goats with...

Spring Clearout Sale!

It's another Cats-Away weekend this Easter.. Brontë and I are abandoning the Clapton ship for a short break, leaving the online shop open for a...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

I get knocked down but I get up again

It's not often that you get to make a link between the lyrics of an anarchist punk band hit from the 90s, the spirit of...
Pattern round-ups

Sweaters on Toast

What is it about the knitwear in Toast? I've lost track of the number of people who come by to the shop with a picture...
Knitsplaining

Bobble Trouble

For the most part, us knitters have plenty to feel good about - our pastime is good for our mental health, it keeps us and...

Piles of stories

They started as a way of keeping the shop real and connected with knitters during the closed period of the pandemic, and then somehow the...
Knitsplaining

You *can* do the maths

A few days ago, this came in an email to the shop.. 'I would love to make the Burgos with the João but I don't...