Knitting Stories

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The moral (ity) of the story

I tend to have three types of customer: those who can knit, those who can't but want to knit, and those who love someone else...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Tell me about your knitting

“Tell me about the knitting” “The knitting? You mean you want me to tell you what I’m knitting?” “If you like. I’d like to know...

Travels with knitting

When you just have to rail-road it

I was on the 13.28 train to Norwich. The train was pulling away and I had to decide if it was going to be a...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Support through thick and thin (wool)

In a time before the shop I used to work with a small team of web developers and computer technicians building online projects for change-making...

Heritage

Knitting for misfits

‘Oh, you knit in a funny way, you've got the wool in the other hand!' I've tried and failed to knit with wool 'the other...

Travels with knitting

Unfortunately.. fortunately..

It was the Thursday before going away, and the Unfortunately.. Fortunately.. game started playing out in real life. Unfortunately the postman arrived early and Vi didn't manage to...

Knitters

Julia

It was Christmas Eve 2018. There were a last few last-minuters coming in for row counters and stitch markers to bulk out stockings, but the...

Knitters

Gail

Carrot cake, lemon cake, chocolate cake.. Gail never arrives at the shop without a cake, her knitting and a smile that lights up the room....

Knitters

Sabira

There was something a little magical about Sabira's arrival at the Winter 2019 Sweater Club. Never mind that she'd only booked her place hours before...