Category: Techniques
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What George Spins – Corriedale Wool Top
Something different from the ‘What We Knit’ series, I’ve done some spinning! I couldn’t resist having a little spin with the new Corriedale Fibre we have got in. As we have been expanding our spinning range and also running spinning workshops we were looking for a simple fibre that would be easy to spin for…
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How I use Soak
Spring always feels like a good time of year to go through your knits and give them a little refresh. The weather is getting warmer and it’s a good idea to get your heavier knits washed, dried and put away before the summer. We have had a big delivery of Soak the no rinse wool…
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What a Difference a Thread Makes
A couple of weeks ago, we introduced the lovely new design, the Helica Pullover, by Teti’s Knit Garden. Teti is known for her nature inspired, almost etheric looking, romantic and timeless style. Teti chose the name for this design, Helica, from Latin, meaning “winding”, because of the winding ivy branch of the colourwork motifs on…
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How I use the Twig & Horn Wool Soap
It’s a perfect time of year to go through and give your favourite knitwear some love, maybe a refresh before you are wearing it again in the winter. So with this blog post I will take you through how I like to use the Twig & Horn Liquid Lanolin Wool Soap. The Twig & Horn…
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Needles for Socks
We have made many posts looking at the beautiful sock friendly yarns along with various sock patterns and books over the years. But this post is dedicated to the tools you need to create the socks themselves. The foundation of every knitters work, your needles. There are different ways to knit a sock and different…
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A Deep Dive into Stranded Colourwork
It is probably the Northener in me, or more accurate, me being a Norwegian that makes me crave woolly jumpers as soon as autumn is here – but not any woolly jumper – oh no, I’m talking about proper thick proper wool proper bashing around in the snow jumpers! Now admittedly it’s been years since…
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Urban Foraging
With a desire to do some more natural dyeing I headed out on a foraging adventure looking for buddleia flowers which I have seen give an amazing yellow colour, I was not disappointed. Taking a bag and a pair of scissors I took a walk along a pathway near me that runs along the back…
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Swatches and a Sock – Knitting Katla Sokkaband
I’ve longed to knit Hélène Magnússon Katla Sokkaband ever since it arrived in the shop just before Unravel in spring this year. A solid yarn made up of 4 strands of Love Story Einband plied together has made it extremely intriguing. So I bit the bullet and cast on a sock, undeterred by the fact…
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New Year … New Skill
Do you have any crafty goals for 2023 or wanting to learn something new? Sometimes I set myself a little challenge at the beginning of the year, one year it was to knit more socks. Though I’m not quite sure what it will be this year. Maybe I’ll just knit through my stash and not…
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All Things Marled
Writing the blog post about the new Chimera we have in the shop has got me excited about marling and marled yarns. I cast on with some Chimera straight away and loving knitting it up. Marled yarns are fun to knit with and unlike speckled or variegated yarn they play with colour in their own…
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Block around the Clock
Every knitter has their own way of knitting and their own tension. These may slightly vary from knitter to knitter or vary a lot. Knitting styles, needle types and yarn varieties all play a part in the finished tension of a piece. That’s why it’s important to swatch. To knit to the same tension as…
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Can it be worked in the round?
We’re almost ready to cast-on for this fall’s most magical adventure – the Meadow Wrap Knit-A-Long together with awesome designer extraordinaire Dee Hardwicke. After weeks and weeks of preparations, we are nearly there, the excitement is building and I am so eager to get that wrap onto my needles I can literarily taste it! In…
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