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The Berlin Wool

The sunflower yellow S-bahn arced its way around an elevated sweep of railway, like a welcoming smile on platform 15 of the Berlin Hauptbanhof. There's...
Pattern round-ups

Knit Your Own Summer Part 3

What about Parts 1 & 2: you can't just kick off with Part 3! Ha Hah! Just as I suspected. You've totally forgotten about the...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A knitter walks into a wool shop

A knitter walks into a wool shop. They undo their jacket to reveal an astonishingly beautiful and complicatedly cabled cardigan which has the look of...
Pattern round-ups

Knit your own summer mini series

Distracting sunny afternoons, limited space in your backpack and the joy of getting a project finished within days of starting it: the summer turns out...
Meet the maker

Knitting in high places

'When he saw I knew what I was talking about as a knitter, it helped me to create a bond.' Irene Waggener is an anthropologist,...
Knitsplaining

When is a sweater not a sweater?

Perhaps when it's a light weight top which isn't about keeping you warm? Or when it's got short sleeves? When it looks nice on its...
Life in the day of a wool shop

Overheard in the woolshop this week

Lots of new faces and new knitters in the shop this week, also old knitters trying new things. It's a good reminder that however familiar...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

If Sisyphus had been a knitter…

By all accounts Sisyphus was a pretty crafty guy and not in a nice way: He plotted to kill his brother, seduced his niece and...
Product highlights

A Sweater for Less

Cost of living, cozzie-livs, feeling the pinch, straightened times.. Whatever you want to call it, there's a lot of us feeling it right now. It...
Knitsplaining

A Circular Argument

'It's a just a hat - why do I need 2 different sorts of needles?' 'Finally reached the sleeve decreases and now even my 40cm...