Knitting Stories

The shop

We can fix this!

Yarns may come and go but some things remain the same at Wild and Woolly. Ever since we opened up in 2014, it's been a point...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

* Knit it, Love it, Repeat from *

Here at the International Institute for Picking your Next Knitting Project, we encounter many personality types in our clients.. The Disciplined Knitter: has an ordered...

Heritage

Turning the tide

I'd got 3 messages in as many minutes, all asking if I was listening to Radio 4. But with over a hundred parcels still to pack...

Life in the day of a wool shop

Overheard in the wool shop this week

Peddling wool in a heatwave has it's moments. I thought it might be nice to share some of them with you this week. Here's some...

Pattern round-ups

Knit your own summer, Part 2

So much for Part 1, the summer just got hotter and there's still weeks more to go. So here comes Part 2 of How to...

Pattern round-ups

Knit your own summer, Part 1

Soaring temperatures, pavements booming with heat and the busiest knit night of the year - I think we finally need to put that myth to...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A one-way ticket to knit

I once took a train from a tiny station on the north coast of Brittany where I'd arrived by sailing boat from Jersey. It was...

World Wide What?

The latest listing on the World Wide Knit in Public Day website shows events you can join in George Town,Tasmania, Providence, Rhode Island, Vilnius, West Lafayette, Indiana,...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Can you feel it?

We hear a lot these days about the therapeutic benefits of knitting. Amongst other things it's claimed that knitting can lower blood pressure, reduce depression...