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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...

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...

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...
Knitsplaining

Ladderback what???

My first encounter with the ladderback jacquard LBJ technique was back in 2023 during one of my weekly dives, deep into the wierder and wonderfuller...
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In our Good Books

There are times on my long scrollings through Ravelry in search of a just-right raglan for a customer, that it's tempting to ask if there's...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Threads of learning

The women arrived together and their chatter had that slightly nervous excitement that comes of being away from work, as they entered the training room....