Knitting Stories

I’ve got an app for that..

Every knitter knows you have to put your phone down in order to knit. But how many stitches do you manage to work before you...

Not sure if this is a daft question, but..

I'm going to stop you right there. Asking questions - especially about how to do something you don't know how to do - is almost...

A Toast to the Autumn

We're not yet cold enough to call it chilly, but the 8am nip in the air is real. It's usually gone by midday, but at...

Putting the Cables back into Cable Street

Obviously it's not just about being knitters. But being knitters somehow really mattered. At least that's how I remember it. It was at a particularly...

Something Fishy’s Going On..

It feels like far too long since we've had a pattern round-up, but pinning down where to pitch things  knitting-wise during these last days of...

Knitting over the line

'An intensive knitting course in the summer? No one knits in the summer.  What would we even call it?' 'It's a crash course. The summer's...

Buy Now, Knit Later: It’s Sale Time!

It's nearly August, Lower Clapton Road is hovering around 35°c and we have both fans doing their very best to keep things cool in the...

From the Archives..

It's a mark of how profound the challenges were that people faced during the COVID19 pandemic that it's still a daily reference point for the...

Something extra without the fluff

It was whilst she was out on a cardigan-fishing expedition on Ravelry that Brontë came back with this beauty by Amy Chritoffers. The pretty knit-purl...

Blooming marvellous

Nothing about my trip to Edinburgh had gone as planned. I woke up to a text message from The Trainline telling me my train was...

All that glitters is not gold..

..Some of it is very woolly too! We had so much fun with the golden rules that so many of you sent in last week,...

The Golden Rules Project

The paperback was a bit worn along the spine and had an unpreposessing cover showing a colour-washed photograph of a ball of wool with 2...