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… and then there were 3

It's become a feature of this period of lockdown that time can feel a bit stuck. The absence of stories and news that come from...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The love issue

February 2018 was when Cyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, brought England and Wales to a virtual halt with unusually low temperatures and...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Live and Lett Lopi

For the parenting period of this knitter's life, knitting never really became a family affair. By the time my kids were old enough to make...
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Through the window and beyond…

It's customary at this end-of-the-row time of year to abandon our usual story-telling and let the windows tell their tales of the year that's passed:...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The ghost of knit nights past

I opened the shop on Monday morning to a smell that seemed to come from a time before this one. The source was in the...
Travels with knitting

Of mice and friends

It goes back to a Saturday evening in Barcelona about a year ago. We all sat around a table in a dimly-lit restaurant: an embroiderer,...
The shop

For the love of a table

King Arthur's was round, the Apostles' was long, Number 10's is oval. Tables and their shapes are important - they define the space and say...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

One stitch at a time

I count my stitches two at a time, others take them singly or in fives. I watch perfectly fluent English speakers whisper numbers in their...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

of prancing ponies and knitting scars

There's a wool shop keeper-as-midwife analogy that feels apt when I think about my role in delivering new knitters to the world through the shop....
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A short knit story of time

This time of year is full of questions.. like how many stitches to cast on for a scarf, how to avoid curling edges, or what...
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What’s in a name

Wild and Woolly [ wahyld-n-woo l-ee ] 'to be carrying a wild look, to have a bearded and dirty look, to be lawless, to be uncultured'...