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Pattern round-ups

Knit Your Own Summer Part 5

Yes, Part 5 means that there are another 4 that came before, but don't panic - they happened last summer and the summer before that...

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When is a WiP not a WiP?

We know that knitting monogamy is not for everyone. Unlike human partners, knitting which gets passed over for a while in favour of another project,...

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And now for something completely different..

Weird, curious and baffling but also brilliant and often beautiful: there's a niche category of knits which Brontë and I reserve a special fondness for...

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Somewhere in between

There may be practical reasons for dividing the year into 4 separate seasons with beginning and end dates, but real world weather doesn't always seem...

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Sweaters on Toast

What is it about the knitwear in Toast? I've lost track of the number of people who come by to the shop with a picture...

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3.. 2.. 1.. Sweaters!

Waking up when it's still dark, gloomy afternoons and wind that always seems to be blowing in the wrong direction - the Danes may be...

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Just the One

Fairy lights in shop windows and forlorn looking pumpkins in wheely bins have appeared like signposts warning us that we're nearly there. Halloween is over,...

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Unboxing the autumn

Deliveries, boxes and unpacking: The last weeks have sometimes felt like we are taking delivery of autumn itself - just in a woollen form. Parcels...

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Knit Your Own Summer Part 4

This final part of our KYOS series for 2023 is a travel edit, specially for weekend-awayers, back packers, cycle tourers, and last-minute-trippers. These are your...

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Knit Your Own Summer Part 3

What about Parts 1 & 2: you can't just kick off with Part 3! Ha Hah! Just as I suspected. You've totally forgotten about the...

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Knit your own summer mini series

Distracting sunny afternoons, limited space in your backpack and the joy of getting a project finished within days of starting it: the summer turns out...

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Sunny intervals

Summer, the meterolgical calendar tells us, is not far away. But given how the spring has (not) turned out in this corner of east London,...