Stories tagged: What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

When do we get to the mindful bit?

Remember this badge which was all the rage on knitters' project bags in the the twenty-teens? I'm tempted to say that keeping a lid on...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

‘Tis better to have knit and frogged

Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 27.13-17) Far be it from...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

There’s something about Aase

In a change from our usual, this week's post is being brought to you by my recently finished jumper - The Aase Sweater by Hanne...

Product highlights

Ready to Wind

"The only mistakes we make", we're told, "are the ones we fail to learn from". So what was the lesson here? A mis-stranded skein of...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Ode to My Socks

Regardless who comes and what brought them here, the Absolute Beginners knitting class always seems to end with the sense that something wonderous happened in...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Love letter to a sweater

Why must love be something we fall into? After all it doesn't sit below us. With you, it felt more like somewhere we climbed to....

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...

Life in the day of a wool shop

Into the beyond

I was trying and failing to steady the skate which I'd hung from the rack on the cieling. The weight of the the boot kept...

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...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

I love September and I cannot lie.

Out of respect for the faithful old-timers who've been reading these newsletters for a few years now, I made a decision this year that I'd...

What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The Nine Patch List

There's a ready-made versus hand knitted discussion I'm often roped into, which starts off revolving around the price we pay for the wool we knit...

Pattern round-ups

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,...