Knitting Stories
Overheard in the wool shop
“Oooh it must be lovely working in a wool shop. I’d love to have a job where I got to sit around and knit all day.” I’d love a job … Overheard in the wool shop
Anna
Knitting Stories
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. There was no falling with … Love letter to a sweater
Knitting Stories
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 task looks. On the other … Uncountable Values
Knitting Stories
Hello, How’s your knitting?
In the door-swinging-open course of the shop day with all it’s ‘How-are-you-and-how’s-that-sweater-going?’ conversations, it’s easy to forget that there are a whole bunch of knitters out there who get wool … Hello, How’s your knitting?
Knitting Stories
Sweaters plain and simple
Don’t say boring. Do say blank canvas. As the year stretches ahead of us with plenty of cold weather promise, the what-to-knit-next question seems more open endedly tormenting than ever. … Sweaters plain and simple
Knitting Stories
I’m sorry are you open?
Yes we’re open come on in! Don’t you wonder why people keep asking if you’re open even when the Open sign is on the door? I’m not being funny or … I’m sorry are you open?
Knitting Stories
A year in the life of a wool shop window
“Oh is that the shop with the funny window displays?“Hmm, do you mean funny-ha-ha or funny-peculiar? Sometimes I think the shop is better known by outsiders for the antics that … A year in the life of a wool shop window
Knitting Stories
Knitting out of the box
There’s something pleasingly tidy about a kit. It’s the yarn, the pattern and a secret magic ingredient which comes by virtue of it being all boxed up, that makes the … Knitting out of the box
Knitting Stories
3..2..1.. December!
And just like that, the year picked up speed and we’ve hurtled through to the last lap. With the marvellous help of The Sunny Sign Co’s window painter, and a … 3..2..1.. December!
Knitting Stories
What it says on the Tin – and then some!
Haven’t we been here before? You made a tin last year, I got one and I love it. In fact I think it might just be my favourite tin ever. … What it says on the Tin – and then some!