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What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

What kind of knitter are you?

What kind of knitter are you? You're 6 rows on from the row where you did a series of 2/2 right cross cable twists, and...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

The Wee Small Hours Revisited

Yesterday evening I left the shop with a plan to sit down and write to you all with a rather marvellous centuries-old story about a...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

* Knit it, Love it, Repeat from *

Here at the International Institute for Picking your Next Knitting Project, we encounter many personality types in our clients.. The Disciplined Knitter: has an ordered...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A one-way ticket to knit

I once took a train from a tiny station on the north coast of Brittany where I'd arrived by sailing boat from Jersey. It was...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Can you feel it?

We hear a lot these days about the therapeutic benefits of knitting. Amongst other things it's claimed that knitting can lower blood pressure, reduce depression...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

That’s the Colour!

"I love this teal-y blue. It's so beautiful. It's such a shame I can't wear it." There is a version of this colour choosing agony...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

West One, Here We Come!

More accustomed to celebrating small-scale, slow-pace making, I'm both thrilled and not a little nervous to reveal our latest and truly gigantic news..You may want...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Confessions of a slack swatcher

I have a confession to make. I don't always swatch.I know I know I know. How can you  trust a knitting shop keeper who doesn't always...
Life in the day of a wool shop

You are the champions

It was late July 2021 and my phone pinged. A friend Whatsapped me a photo they'd seen online of a guy knitting by the side...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

When knitting imitates art

What's your favourite bind off? Oh that's easy - it has to be the tubular bind-off. It's everything I want in a bind off -...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Knitting time

'I just don't have the time. Life is way too busy at the moment' This familiar response from non-knitting knitwear-admiring friends comes when I gently...