Vintage Wool Update: Excelana Launch
Choosing the right yarn to knit up your vintage pattern takes time and effort and most of the enquiries I get are about which wool…
Swatch: Current Craft Favourites
Vintage Yarn Potential
I came across Holstgarn Supersoft, a rather interesting-looking and reasonably-priced Danish 100% wool 2-ply, so I sent off for the shade cards and it turns…
Sex, La Droguerie & Rock’n’Roll
Managed to squeeze in a quick trip to Paris last month, the sexiest city in the world, which of course included an essential trip to…
Land Girls Invade Knitting Magazine
A pretty impressive 'Knitting' magazine this month (February's edition) it's gone all vintage, using the land girls as its inspiration and including an article by…
Knit a Poppy
It's not too late to show your respect in knitted form for those who fell in the great wars (and continue to fall in more…
Elsa Schiaparelli Bowknot Sweater Pattern
Ever since I saw a sketch of Elsa Schiaparelli's beautiful trompe l'oeil bowknot sweater in a 1930s Stitchcraft, I've been trying to work out how…
Running Hare Art & Design
I'm writing this feature with a certain amount of jealousy. The subject is the incredibly gifted and prolific Maker/Artist Ana-Luisa de Cavilla Scrutton who goes…
Toy Car Launcher
Yes that's right, it launches cars. Go on, the weekend's not over yet, this would really make you feel like you'd done something cool with…
Robson & Mason
Browsing through the wonderful Made in England site on a recommendation from Mr W (being geeky and admiring the animated icon) and came across a…
Letter crochet
There aren't many things that make me want to pick up a hooked needle, but this is one of them - what a cool way…
Brighton Sock
Alright I know I said no more trying to be clever with the titles, but it made me laugh. Sock ... Rock? Oh forget it,…
Quilting fabrics
I keep seeing all these lovely retro fabrics crop up on ebay in the American 'Fat Quarter' measurements so I decided to search them out…