Drop in, knit and save at knitshop.co.uk on Yarn Shop Day

Yarn Shop Day at knitshop.co.uk - 10% Discount and free classes!

Knitting and crochet are passions for us at knitshop.co.uk and we love the fact we get to share them with our customers, offer crafting advice and see the results of your amazing creations. We’re hoping Yarn Shop Day on Saturday 3 May will be the perfect excuse to meet some of you and to have a nose at what you’re knitting, crocheting or felting.

Yarn Shop Day is a celebration of yarn shops up and down the land. It takes place on Saturday 3 May and is the brainchild of Let’s Knit and Let’s Get Crafting magazines. Let’s Get Crafting editor Ella Johnston describes local yarn shops as “a truly valuable resource for knitters and crocheters”. As part of this nationwide celebration of local yarn shops we’ll be holding a Drop In and Knit event at our Boutique Outlet at Lee Green, Lewisham 10am to 3pm and we’d love you to join us. 

a large selection of high quality designer yarn and natural fibers!

 

To show you how much we appreciate your continued support, knitshop.co.uk is offering customers 10 percent off anything and everything on Saturday 3 May – aka Yarn Shop Day. This is in addition to any discounts we may be running at the time. See our Specials for current offers. This means you’ll be able to get hold of our best-selling yarn such as the every-popular Cotton Yarn DK for just £6.10 per 100g ball. Coquette Vintage Cotton yarn, meanwhile, will cost £4.45 per ball and a 100g (220m) skein of knitshop.co.uk Cotton Linen Blend will be £7.18. 

Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn

 

Of you could use this across-the-store Yarn Shop Day discount offer as an excuse to try a more unusual yarn such as Blue Tilt Silk Yarn which is ideal for detailed lacy knits, or to indulge in a new pattern book to inspire your next crochet and knitting projects.

Of course, as well as getting to meet fellow knitters and crocheters, by coming along to our open house Drop In and Knit event on Yarn Shop Day, you’ll also save on postage for your new purchases! If you can’t make it on the day, remember that we offer free postage on orders of £36 and above. 

 

Cotton Plied Wool Yarn - ideal to knit in spring and summer.

 

Links to this blog:

Blue Tilt Silk yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitting-yarn/2997-blue-tilt-silk-yarn.html

Cotton DK yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/92-dk-cotton

Cotton Linen Blend yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/21-cotton-linen-blend

Coquette Vintage Cotton yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/323-coquette-vintage-cotton

knitshop.co.uk special offers: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/prices-drop.php

knitshop.co.uk bookshop: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/166-book-shop

Let’s Get Crafting: http://www.letsgetcrafting.com

Let’s Knit: http://www.letsknit.co.uk

Where to find knitshop.co.uk: https://plus.google.com/107779929881797513228/about?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

Kids go first in April

What's on at knitshop.co.uk in April - will closed for a couple of weeks in April, which means we’ll be running only a handful of workshops. Because of this we’ve decided to focus on our most popular classes.

With the kids off school for the Easter holidays, we’re running two classes aimed at getting the younger generation hooked on knitting and crochet. On Friday 25 April, we’ll be encouraging kids to Swing The Needles and take their first foray into either finger knitting (for the very young) or regular knitting. There’s also the option of learning crochet or knitting on a loom if they prefer. 

Swing The Needles - A girl learning to knit at the
Lee Green Boutique Outlet: knitshop.co.uk

Having mastered casting on their first stitches, students learn how to create knit rows of garter stitch. By the end of the two-hour Swing The Needles class, they’ll be able on their way to making their first knitted square or strip. This can then be turned into a pencil case, purse, friendship bracelet or other small item. As with all our workshops, we offer phone and email support, so if your child gets into a pickle later, we’ll be able to help them complete their knitting project.

The second class for kids is on Saturday 26 April. This class, Let’s Get Hooked, specifically focuses on crochet and teaches you how to make your first crochet chains and use them as the basis of a friendship bracelet, phone case, flower or necklace. 

We also welcome under 5 year olds to start playing with yarn
and learn crafty skills.

As with the Swing The Needles class, we offer finger knitting and knitting with a loom as an alternative that younger children may find it easier to learn initially.

Kids’ classes at knitshop.co.uk are suitable for five-year-olds and upwards. Attendees must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Kids’ classes cost £10 each while adult classes are £15 each. We provide all the materials you need for the project and written instructions on how to complete it at home.

If you’ve learned the basics of knitting but want to improve your technique, we’ve got an Improvers Knitting workshop on Friday 25 April that shows you how to get even tension, so your knitted items look smooth with uniform stitches. We’ll also cover working increase and decrease rows using various techniques and how to read knitting patterns and charts.

If you want to learn crochet or take the next step having learned the basics, our Crochet A Granny Square workshop on Saturday 26 April is for you. You’ll find out how to create chains of crochet and combine doubles and trebles to create simple patterns. Using these skills, you’ll work on your first Granny Square – a classic crochet design that you can use as the basis of crocheted homewares and garments.

Finally, on Friday 25 April we will also be offering a free SOS Clinic in which we help you work out where a knitting or crochet project has gone off track and how to fix it. We’re happy for you to drop in on the day, but priority will be given to those who have booked.

knitshop.co.uk workshops are held at our boutique outlet at 326 Lee High Road, SE13 5PJ. The two-hour classes start at 11am and all materials and refreshments are provided.

Links to this blog:

Knitshop.co.uk workshops schedule: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/156-workshops

Crochet A Granny Square workshop: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/workshops/3013-crochet.html

Improve Your Knitting workshop: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/workshops/3009-colour-knitting.html

Free SOS Clinic: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/workshops/3007-free-sos-clinic.html

Let’s Get Hooked: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/workshops/3012-lets-get-hooked.html

Loom knitting explainer: http://www.instructables.com/id/Loom-Knitting

Swing The Needles kids knitting: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/workshops/2459-25-april.html

Crochet a daffodil for Marie Curie Cancer Care

Spring is here at last and it’s wonderful to see all the flowers on show. Daffodils are a particularly inspiring sight and we’ve got a brand-new pattern to share with you that means you’ll be able to enjoy daffodils in your home all year round.

knitshop.co.uk founder Julieta Brandao has designed a wonderful daffodil pattern as a means of fundraising for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The charity has the daffodil as its symbol and runs a Daffodil Appeal fundraising drive each March.

Julieta wearing a crochet Daffodil.

Julieta says “The Marie Curie Appeal is a cause that is very close to me and I wanted to find a way to support the charity not just in March but all year around. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern will go to the Marie Curie Appeal.”

The daffodil pattern [link to be added] is worked on a 3mm crochet hook using knitshop.co.uk’s Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn. The main part of the flower is worked in the round using a combination of trebles and double crochet stitches. The petals are created separately and use slip stitches to cluster stitches together. There’s also a quadruple treble cluster stitch in the pattern that is great fun to work. It helps give the daffodil a really distinctive shape. Once you’ve made enough petals and your main flower you just need to sew them together.

Daffodils are especially nice with the first signs of sunshine!

 

The Daffodil crochet pattern is being sold as a kit containing the yarn, crochet hook and pattern to complete your daffodils. The kit contains a 50g ball of knitshop.co.uk Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn in Canary Yellow, a 3mm crochet hook and, of course, the pattern to make your daffodil. The kit costs £9.95, of which £9 will go straight to Marie Curie Cancer Care. Alternatively, you can buy Julieta’s Daffodil crochet pattern on its own for £3. In this case, the entire £3 will be donated to the charity. 

Once assembled it’s up to you how to you want to display your beautiful springtime bloom. You could attach it to a headband or make a stem for it from pipe cleaners or wire covered in green yarn. You could also add a brooch back attached to a piece of felt and pin your Daffodil Appeal to a jacket to show everyone your support for the wonderful nurses at Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Links to this blog:

knitshop.co.uk: http://www.knitshop.co.uk

Daffodil charity crochet kit: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitshop-pattern/3029-daffodil.html

Daffodil pattern: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitshop-pattern/3028-daffodil.htm

Marie Curie Cancer Care: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk

Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/fundraising-volunteering/great-daffodil-appeal

Canary Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2765-canary-coquette.html

3mm crochet hook: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/1635-3mm-metal-hook.html