Stories tagged: Travels with knitting

Heritage

Happy Mendings

We used to keep a pile of mending when I was a child, for my granny to do when she came to visit. It was...

Travels with knitting

The 800 mile ball of wool

The sun was low in the sky, casting an orange light around the room. I’d woken up from an afternoon nap on the couch. We...

Meet the maker

Ovis What?

Julius is a cavernous minimalist restaurant that has the look of a place which other people eat at. But when I go in and take...

Travels with knitting

The Berlin Wool

The sunflower yellow S-bahn arced its way around an elevated sweep of railway, like a welcoming smile on platform 15 of the Berlin Hauptbanhof. There's...

Travels with knitting

The unbearable delightness of a wool show

Waterloo station had never looked so woolly. It wasn't a yarn bombing event, but ten minutes until the departure of the 10am train to Farnham,...

Travels with knitting

In search of a yarn store..

With April Foolery nonsense safely behind us (and our dreams of a 4 storey wool shop on Oxford Street still  floating around on a cloud...

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,...

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...

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...