Stories tagged: The shop

The shop

Step right in..

The new website is now open, so come on in. Let's take a look around.. Oops! What have you done with the menu? It's disappeared?...

The shop

S is for September

..and Starting new things so here's handy little quiz to help you work out which way to go: There's a storm cloud hovering above the flats...

The shop

Daydreaming a wool shop

"My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies...

The shop

11 years ago today…

..on a similarly sunny April morning, I pushed the shutter up and unlocked the door of 116 Lower Clapton Road and wedged the door open...

The shop

Uncountable Values

For a serial procrastinator like me, deadlines can be equal parts terrifying and reassuring: On the one hand there's the enormousness of how overwhelming the...

The shop

Hello, How’s your knitting?

In the door-swinging-open course of the shop day with all it's 'How-are-you-and-how's-that-sweater-going?' conversations, it's easy to forget that there are a whole bunch of knitters...

The shop

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...

Life in the day of a wool shop

How to Open a Wool Shop Part II

..And then the shop opened. Knitters heard that there was a new yarn store in Hackney and the non-knitters also wanted to see what was...

Life in the day of a wool shop

How to open a wool shop Part I

It was on a sunny Wednesday morning in the spring of 2014. There was a chill in the air, not that different from today. I...

The shop

It’s a yarn shop – right?

Yes! Wild and Woolly is most definitely a yarn shop. But it's also other things which aren't always easy to get a handle on if...

The shop

Wool Wanted!

The milk pan, the lasagne dish, the salad spinner, the scales and the irritatingly small espresso cups have all been taken. I don't know who...