Anna

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A Tale of 3 Sweaters

It’s a pattern of behavior which knows no logic or expediency: I am never so productive with knitting as when there is something else that needs to be done. The more urgent the other task is, the faster I knit. No surprise then, that this year’s HMRC double whammy deadlines of Annual tax and Quarterly …

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

if you want to knit it, you will be able to

Is it going to be very difficult? Do you think I’ll be able to manage it – I’m really not an advanced knitter. It’s a straight forward enough question and it’s totally reasonable to expect me to be able to answer it. Ravelry even has a difficulty rating bar on the pattern details page. So …

Pattern round-ups

9 picks for 26

It’s a rarely-spoken about hazard of being a knitter, that we have a far harder time packing for a weekend away than our non-knitting friends and relations. They only have to check the weather, choose appropriate footwear and a paperback and they’re good to go. The knitter meanwhile has so much else to think about: …

Knitting Stories

2026 Pick-up-sticks

It’s a mark of just how crazy the memory of the last shopping days of December had got in my head, that I was almost surprised not to find some post-hurricane like chaos of wool, when I pushed the shop shutters open last week. Thankfully, the shop was as I’d left it on Christmas Eve: …

Life in the day of a wool shop

Through the window and beyond

There’s just a couple of days to go until we shut the wool shop door and flip the closed sign round for the final time this year. It’s also my cue to invite you to put down your knitting for a moment, take 5 minutes out of thinking about all the things that still need …

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Lists, lists, glorious lists!

‘The secret is a well organised list,’ explained my friend. ‘You do the thing and tick it off and gradually it all gets sorted. It works. I promise’. I’ve been doing my level best with the List Approach this December but not altogether successfully. The mix of delivery-unpacking, order-placing, window dressing, Wolf-knitting, gift devising, knitter-helping, …

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Introducing Tino

Tino rubbed his eyes, and stretched out a paw from under his warm blanket to feel the cold of the nearly-morning air. He pulled his red sweater over his head and sat up to look outside. A layer of mist hung over the valley with the darkness barely broken by the fuzzy light of a …

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Keeping a lid on it but only just..

No, don’t tell me. I’m going to work it out. Keeping a lid on it, means it must be about keeping a secret – right? I love secrets and I’m everso good at keeping them. If I promise not to tell, please will you tell me. Ha ha! Lids aren’t just for keeping secrets, they’re …

Meet the maker

Every Fibre

‘I hand spin a sample, as close as possible to what I want and that’s what they work on. The softness has to do with the amount of twist that you add to the yarn when you’re spinning. And of course the quality of the wool itself.‘ We’ve taken delivery of several kilos of Rosa Pomar’s …

Life in the day of a wool shop

Overheard in the Woolshop

5 and a bit weeks to go and it’s getting p r e t t y busy in the wool shop. More knitters means more stories and a fresh crop of lovely new Overheards.. ‘It’s for my cousin. She said she wanted a scarf. But now it’s finished she says it needs to be a …