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Socktober
October equals Socktober! It’s not just a play on words but an embrace of the season. Autumn is here and we are reaching for our knitwear. That includes our knitted socks. Be prepared to cast on some socks! If you are looking for sock yarn than look no further than these suggestions: Socks Yeah! – Socks…
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Virtual Knit Night tomorrow October 10th
Right, how do I even put this … guys I’ve made a proper blooper. I’ve got my days mixed up and don’t have any other excuse than my knitting. It is true, these days I am so obsessed with my project that I’ve taken my finger completely off the button and lost track of all…
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Yarn Pairings for Kindred Knits by Aleks Byrd
Aleks Byrd’s book Traditions Revisted shone a light on Estonian knitting techniques and explored her Estonian heritage through traditional regional knitting styles and embellishments. It introduced knitters worldwide to the joys of stitches like roosimine, nuppud and fringes. These techniques were explored through Aleks distinctive style and she created a range of contemporary garments and…
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Virtual Knit Night September 11th 2025
Summer is definitely passing, and although we’re blessed with unusual nice temperatures here in London these days, there is that specific nip in the air – that for yarnies can mean only one thing – it is woolly season! My summer has been wonderful, filled with activities and rest, but I have to admit my…
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Laine x Novita
Never has the anticipation been more REAL than now! The spirit of Laine captured in their own signature yarn range!Jonna Helin, founder of Laine Publishing says:“This yarn reflects everything I love and believe in: character, structure, natural fibres, deep colour and emotional connection.” Laine x Novita is developed by Jonna herself, in close collaboration with…
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What George Knits – Bounce by Tin Can Knits
So the other week I got a message from a friend saying ‘you have nice yarns in your shop’. I was like yes we do! ‘Nice yarns for a baby?’ a reply came. I was like definitely! It turns out that she wanted to gift a baby blanket to a friend. So after a few…
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Yarn Pairings for Laine Issue 26
Is it cosy season yet? Laine’s Autumn issue is just round the corner. Get your autumn wardrobe ready! The theme of this issue is Crossing Paths and is photographed on the streets of the Kallio district of Helsinki in Finland. Enjoy a lazy day strolling from café to market place with a beautiful piece of…
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Inspiration for Ooey Gooey by Andrea Mowry
Every year Andrea Mowry creates a design in preparation for the Rhinebeck Wool Festival, one of the world’s largest annual wool gatherings. Her 2025 design is the Ooey Gooey sweater! Andrea says the inspiration for this sweater began with a beautiful modern rug with undulating curves. She began drawing up some colorwork charts, and immediately…
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Inspiration for Flea Sweater
We often get a lot of requests for how the Flea Sweater might look in different colour combos. I’ve attempted to work a little photoshop magic to give you some ideas. The Flea Sweater takes six different colours of the beautiful Pickles Pure Wool. Pure Wool is a worsted spun 4ply weight yarn, that comes…
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What Maya Knits – Yolene Top
In my newsletters lately, we’ve been discussing the concept of mojo, and how it sometimes just seems to come and go as it pleases, in midst of a crisis I completely lost my knitting mojo and found myself in a place where I just couldn’t hold on to my needles for support. This blog post…
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Twine Time
It’s not all knitting here at Knit with Attitude, we also crochet of course, but there are other interesting fibre crafts we are itching to get stuck into. So when the Sorazora handspun twines arrived the other week our minds were racing with the possibilities. The name Sorazora comes from the Japanese ‘Sora’ meaning ‘sky’…
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New Yarn – Riverknits Chimera DK
We love Chimera so we were even more excited when Riverknits released a DK version, and NOW that DK version is here at Knit With Attitude. We introduced Chimera 4ply in 2022 and it’s been much loved here in the shop ever since. The DK version is going to be no exception. Riverknits is the…
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