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What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A year on the turn

At other times of year, 6 weeks can go by with little to show for the passing of time. But the period that lies between...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A time to knit

That the shop becomes quieter in the summer months seems almost too obvious to be worth mentioning. We make things to keep us warm, so...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

To frog or not to frog?

'Do you think that bit where I went wrong back there, shows? Would you undo it? ' This whether-or-not-to-frog question is as much a question about...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

In praise of ordinary

There's a video clip circulating on YouTube at the moment, from a US talkshow in which Michelle Obama is telling the host, Gayle King, about her newly...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Come on in, the water’s lovely

Since it turned into my everyday workplace, the shifting colours of the shop's wall of wool became my background, my 'normal' that I've come to...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Cardigan Closure

Last weekend I cast off a bright red Black Basalt cardigan that feels like it's been an unfinished part of my life for so long I'm no...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The love issue

February 2018 was when Cyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, brought England and Wales to a virtual halt with unusually low temperatures and...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Live and Lett Lopi

For the parenting period of this knitter's life, knitting never really became a family affair. By the time my kids were old enough to make...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The ghost of knit nights past

I opened the shop on Monday morning to a smell that seemed to come from a time before this one. The source was in the...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

One stitch at a time

I count my stitches two at a time, others take them singly or in fives. I watch perfectly fluent English speakers whisper numbers in their...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

of prancing ponies and knitting scars

There's a wool shop keeper-as-midwife analogy that feels apt when I think about my role in delivering new knitters to the world through the shop....