29th Apr 2020
I am beyond thrilled to share the latest design from Bronagh Miskelly (regular lace design contributor for The Knitter and Knitting magazine!) in a skein of our Cashmere lace! Into the Woods…
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28th Apr 2020
One of the nicest things that happens after you have been dyeing for a while is that people start to post projects on Ravelry with your yarns. These are some of the projects that have appeared to…
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27th Mar 2020
As someone without small people I find the rule ‘Never tell parents how to parent’ a very solid rule to live by but I thought perhaps, since so many folk are homeschooling at the moment, I would share…
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27th Mar 2020
This is a bit of a Signpost post! I can see different search terms used on the site and a lot of folk are searching for Simply the Simplest Shawls but of course it’s on Ravelry! Hopefully this post wi…
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16th Mar 2020
I don’t want to post without talking about covid-19. We live in a time for which there aren’t really any adequate words. I find myself listening to rolling 24 hour news which is not good f…
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15th Mar 2020
It has given me great pleasure over the last number of months to see how much more representative the yarn community has become of people of colour and other minority groups. There is a long way to go…
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We have been a little bit shy here on the blog recently! Getting our Simply the Simplest Shawls book onto Ravelry took quite a bit more time than originally planned. To celebrate finally getting…
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14th Feb 2020
This post is quite ragged around the edges because there has been quite a bit going on here over the last couple of weeks. I will summarise all the steps, tips etc into a tidy post at the end…
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30th Jan 2020
I’m not entirely sure where to start so I’ll tell you where I am and then how I got there! I’m now half way through the knitting of Section 4 and have just rewritten Section 4 so I’ll be doing some fr…
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23rd Jan 2020
Welcome to post 2 in the ‘My first sweater pattern design’ mini series. It’s been a week since I committed to getting to an initial design and all the details that go with it and I think I’ve do…
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16th Jan 2020
Welcome to the first post of the ‘My first sweater pattern design’ mini-series! I’m really excited about this as I have been not-designing-a-sweater for a number of months and I think this serie…
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30th Dec 2019
As a yarn shop owner it’s tricky to suggest that knitters knit from stash first before buying yarn but as someone who spends a lot of time in the company of knitters and crocheters, it’s impossible to…
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