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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...
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...
Product highlights

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...
Product highlights

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...
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...
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...
The shop

That drawer on wheels

'Ask her about the drawer.' The drawer? 'Yes [sheepishly], my friend said there's a drawer... A drawer with wool in in it.. That no one...
Knitters

It becomes like magic.

It was a sunny Saturday in May or June, I think. A tall blonde knitter that I recognised from the last knit night, came to...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

When do we get to the mindful bit?

Remember this badge which was all the rage on knitters' project bags in the the twenty-teens? I'm tempted to say that keeping a lid on...
The shop

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...