Knitting Stories

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

West One, Here We Come!

More accustomed to celebrating small-scale, slow-pace making, I'm both thrilled and not a little nervous to reveal our latest and truly gigantic news..You may want...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Confessions of a slack swatcher

I have a confession to make. I don't always swatch.I know I know I know. How can you trust a knitting shop keeper who doesn't always...

The shop

Reaching the end of the round…

In the shop-as-sweater-project version of life, this time of year often feels like we're fast approaching the stitch marker at the end of a mightily...

The shop

Newtons 3rd Law Proven by Knitters

Followers of the shop on social media will know already that the last couple of weeks have not been our finest. A robbery on Guy...

Life in the day of a wool shop

You are the champions

It was late July 2021 and my phone pinged. A friend Whatsapped me a photo they'd seen online of a guy knitting by the side...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

When knitting imitates art

What's your favourite bind off? Oh that's easy - it has to be the tubular bind-off. It's everything I want in a bind off -...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Knitting time

'I just don't have the time. Life is way too busy at the moment' This familiar response from non-knitting knitwear-admiring friends comes when I gently...