• Laine x Novita
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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…

  • Packing up my Ditty Bag for a Wander
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    Packing up my Ditty Bag for a Wander

    I am smitten with the new Ditty Bags that have landed at Knit With Attitude. They are the perfect little bags for little adventures. Even though they are small you can fit a surprising amount inside. If you haven’t seen them yet our brand new Ditty Bags are the cutest new offerings to the KWA…

  • What George Knits – Bounce by Tin Can Knits

    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…

  • Yarn Pairings for Laine Issue 26

    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…

  • Inspiration for Ooey Gooey by Andrea Mowry
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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…

  • Exploring Pickles Økologisk Bomull
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    Exploring Pickles Økologisk Bomull

    We have been enjoying the Pickles Økologisk Bomull for over a year so it’s well overdue a blog post. Usually we write a ‘New Yarn’ post as soon as something arrives in the shop that we have not had before. But for some reason we missed this cotton. That is not to say it is…

  • Inspiration for Flea Sweater
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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…

  • What Maya Knits – Yolene Top
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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…

  • Twine Time
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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’…

  • What Goes Into Our Protective Scent Bags
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    What Goes Into Our Protective Scent Bags

    … and how does it work? It’s been a couple of weeks since we launched our KWA Protective Scent Bags, the reception has been nothing but mind-blowing, so what better occasion than now to look closer at what they are and how hey work. First thing first, as with several of our KWA bags our…

  • New Yarn – Riverknits Chimera DK
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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…

  • Virtual Knit Night June 12th 2025
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    Virtual Knit Night June 12th 2025

    I am writing this sat in a huge river of ripped up stitches. Trying to decide on what to work on tonight, I went through my projects and even though I take quite a long time to actually fall out of love with projects and can potentially let them rest for years before I decide…