1st Mar 2021
I was delighted when I saw this book from Chesterwool because more than half the patterns can be knit in yarns that are available from TLYC and those that I don't currently have, I can get! 'Lace' fro…
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31st Jan 2021
So this month I wanted to share a magazine (bookazine?!) that I feel hasn't had enough love at all! Our book of the month, for February 2021, is Issue 5, Stripes from Yarn People!This…
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4th Jan 2021
Sometimes it’s tricky to get a real feel for what is in pattern books when you are buying them online so I thought I’d start our book of the month blog series to give people a much better taste of…
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27th Nov 2020
An English woman, and Irish woman and a Scottish woman walk into a yarn shop ...Awh, Black Friday. The biggest shopping day in the Western World. What business doesn’t want to have a little bit of t…
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23rd Jul 2020
Right at the beginning of lock down, I sat down to knit socks on a Sunday but I could not settle to them. I wasn't enjoying the yarn I was knitting with but that wasn't the problem, I've knit th…
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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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