Anna

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 pulling it over. I tightened up the strings now attached to the eyelet hooks, but it wasn’t helping. The object of this delicate balancing and steadying excercise was to get …

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 out there who get wool from us who have no idea who we are, for every knitter we talk things through with in the shop, there’s always another one who …

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 open endedly tormenting than ever. I have watched my knitter compass swing so wildly left and right of its polar north, that I’ve decided to reach for a safety rail …

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? I’m not being funny or anything, but normal shops feel.. well.. just a bit more shoppish. What do you mean? Are you saying that Wild and Woolly isn’t a normal …

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 outsiders for the antics that go on in the window than for its wool. Whatever the case, it’s reassuring to know that the window display is speaking to folks …

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Knitting out of the box

There’s something pleasingly tidy about a kit. It’s the yarn, the pattern and a secret magic ingredient which comes by virtue of it being all boxed up, that makes the whole thing unpackable, make-able and realisable. There’s nothing vague or gently nudging about where to go with it. Neither is it in danger of being …

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3..2..1.. December!

And just like that, the year picked up speed and we’ve hurtled through to the last lap. With the marvellous help of The Sunny Sign Co’s window painter, and a troupe of very well dressed knitted bunnies, our end of year window has been transformed into an underground rabbit’s burrow that is twinkling beautifully in …

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What it says on the Tin – and then some!

Haven’t we been here before? You made a tin last year, I got one and I love it. In fact I think it might just be my favourite tin ever. So you don’t want to know about the new one with the new things in it? You didn’t say it was a NEW tin! Well …

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Introducing The Nibbles..

“So are we second cousins or first cousins twice removed? Or is that the same thing?” “Actually I think you might be 3rd cousins once removed.” Aunt Odile has the bunnies’ favourite family album on the kitchen table spread open on the family tree page. She painted it herself as an intricate fir tree complete …

Pattern round-ups

Sleight of Sleeve

All is not as it seems in hand-knit-land today. No sooner do we congratulate a knitter on the beautiful sweater we can see poking out from inside their jacket, than they give us a cheeky wink and reveal that it’s just a knitted neck. Deliciously warm cuffs turn out to be weird sleevey things that …