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I’m sorry are you open?

Yes we're open come on in! Don't you wonder why people keep asking if you're open even when the Open sign is on the door?...
Life in the day of a wool shop

A year in the life of a wool shop window

"Oh is that the shop with the funny window displays?"Hmm, do you mean funny-ha-ha or funny-peculiar? Sometimes I think the shop is better known by...
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Knitting out of the box

There's something pleasingly tidy about a kit. It's the yarn, the pattern and a secret magic ingredient which comes by virtue of it being all...
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3..2..1.. December!

And just like that, the year picked up speed and we've hurtled through to the last lap. With the marvellous help of The Sunny Sign...
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In our good books

With November's mid-point behind us and knitters (aswell as their non-knitting friends and relations) stepping things up on the present hunting front, we're starting the...
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Introducing The Nibbles..

"So are we second cousins or first cousins twice removed? Or is that the same thing?" "Actually I think you might be 3rd cousins once...
Pattern round-ups

Sleight of Sleeve

All is not as it seems in hand-knit-land today. No sooner do we congratulate a knitter on the beautiful sweater we can see poking out...
Knitsplaining

Unwinding the unspun yarn

The Manchelopis arrives here in large, shiny black plastic tightly wrapped bundles that put me in mind of the bales you see wrapped in the...
Meet the maker

Everything Fits

Anna Husemann sits in the centre of a striped Louis XVI sofa, her face framed by long golden curls and a perfectly straight-cut fringe. Behind...
Heritage

A short history of thrumming

Is Wild and Woolly starting a side hustle in background noises? Why are you writing about thrumming? No, this isn't about thrumming as in the...

Well I’m so pleased you asked..

A recent discussion in the shop on solving the problem of a knitter's too-tight bind off yielded 4 different suggestions from the randomly assembled knitters... ...