Stories tagged: The shop

The shop

This is where the magic happens

Over a year and a half since the last one, I'm happy to say that Absolute Beginner knitting classes are starting again on 3 October. Or maybe...

The shop

The knitting fixing shop

Last night we took the first step in over a year to revive Knit 15 - our series of niche talks for knitters - with...

The shop

Reading windows, knitting stories

A baby sleeps under a corriedale moon as he dreams of Jumperweight sheep jumping over a knitting needle stile.. A yellow icord Circle Line frames...

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… and then there were 3

It's become a feature of this period of lockdown that time can feel a bit stuck. The absence of stories and news that come from...

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Through the window and beyond…

It's customary at this end-of-the-row time of year to abandon our usual story-telling and let the windows tell their tales of the year that's passed:...

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For the love of a table

King Arthur's was round, the Apostles' was long, Number 10's is oval. Tables and their shapes are important - they define the space and say...

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What’s in a name

Wild and Woolly [ wahyld-n-woo l-ee ] 'to be carrying a wild look, to have a bearded and dirty look, to be lawless, to be uncultured'...

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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...