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

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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,...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

I get knocked down but I get up again

It's not often that you get to make a link between the lyrics of an anarchist punk band hit from the 90s, the spirit of...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Goldilocks and the 3 sweaters

I think it began with the Azor, a 4ply cardigan that I started last summer. I'd sped through the beautiful colourwork yoke in less than...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Reasons to Cast on now

To start something now or leave it for later? At Wild and Woolly we love lists almost as much as we love a cast-on, so...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Come steek with me..

The summer holiday knitting project dilemma has become as familiar as the smell of cocount sunscreen in my getting-ready-to-go-away story. There's an irony here given...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A knitter walks into a wool shop

A knitter walks into a wool shop. They undo their jacket to reveal an astonishingly beautiful and complicatedly cabled cardigan which has the look of...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

If Sisyphus had been a knitter…

By all accounts Sisyphus was a pretty crafty guy and not in a nice way: He plotted to kill his brother, seduced his niece and...