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Step right in..

The new website is now open, so come on in. Let's take a look around.. Oops! What have you done with the menu? It's disappeared?...
Knitsplaining

Just Ask!

'I don't get it. The body is a perfect fit. Why is it so tight around my arms?!?' The reason turned out to be a...
Pattern round-ups

Let’s get this autumn started

Yes, last Friday was a hot one, but an Indian summer this September is not. Never mind socks, Brontë and I are back in boots...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

‘Tis better to have knit and frogged

Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 27.13-17) Far be it from...
The shop

S is for September

..and Starting new things so here's handy little quiz to help you work out which way to go: There's a storm cloud hovering above the flats...
Pattern round-ups

Knit Your Own Summer Returns!

There's a preciousness to the time we have for summer holidays which can make the task of deciding what knitting to take especially tricky. Do...
The shop

Daydreaming a wool shop

"My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies...
Life in the day of a wool shop

This nicheness just got nichier

There's a draftiness to the interior of the shop which has its perks when the weather gets warmer. In the winter we layer up against...
Knitsplaining

The long and the short of it

"It's a bit like when you're reading one of those Russian dynastic epics. You mustn't put it down for too long, or you'll lose the...
Product highlights

And then 6 come at once..

We all know how it is with knitting books - you don't always love all of the patterns enough to make it worth getting the...
Pattern round-ups

Time for Tee(s)

It's uncomplicated and fits everyone - the summer's blank canvas that everything else goes with, and yes I know you can get them for a...