Last-minute gifts for knitters

Stuck for what to buy a knitting or crochet fan this Christmas? knitshop.co.uk is at hand to help you choose a gift your creative friend or family member is bound to love.

We’ve got some simply irresistible yarns in the softest natural fibres – it’s all exclusive to knitshop.co.uk as we only sell our own yarns.

Velvet Purple knitted in our beautiful and colourful Kolibri Wool Yarn.

Our bestseller is Kolibri, a fairly chunky yarn that comes in 10 fantastic mixed shades and is sold in 100g skeins. One or two skeins of Kolibri is plenty for making a hat, scarf or pair of gloves or mittens. Check out our downloadable PDF patterns you can gift alongside this cosy yarn.

Eve Skater Set a downloadable pdf
knitted in Thick & Easy Wool Yarn

As well as our own pattern selection, we stock lots of books and magazines filled with patterns, techniques and ideas for needlecraft fans to savour. Vintage fans will be delighted to receive the Vintage Gifts To Knit book by queen of vintage Susan Crawford. It’s currently on special offer for just £11.20 rather than the usual £14. Those are ideal stocking fillers for your loved ones!

We’ve also got our own vintage cotton yarn, Coquette, which we produced in partnership with Susan. You’ll find lots of patterns for this yarn in the knitshop.co.uk pattern library including the easy to knit Reo Wrist Warmer.

REO Wrist Warmer knitted in Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn

For a truly luxurious gift, consider our newly introduced Angora Soft Yarn. This snow-white yarn is simply the softest yarn available and is ideal for keeping a loved one wrapped up warm and for small heirloom knits. Our Angora Soft Yarn is ethically produced and is sure to be treasured by anyone receiving it.

Our brand new and absolutely gorgeous Angora Soft Yarn.

Knitters and crocheters can never have too many accessories and we offer a full range of circular, double- and single-pointed needles and crochet hooks. We stock felting needles and felting kits too.

We’ve just added a trio of oversized Addi knitting needles to our accessories range. These 12mm, 15mm and 25mm needles are used for super chunky knits, cost around £10 each and are great fun to use. Pair them with a bag of Merino Wool Tops and give them to a friend who either loves to make giant knits or who likes to spin or felt yarn. A 1kg Mixed Merino Bag contains four different shades while the Assorted Merino Tops Bag includes 20 shades.

Addi Knitting Needles now available online
at www.knitshop.co.uk.
visit the shop to find your sizes!

If you prefer to make your own gifts and are short on time you can also adventure into needle felting and try your hands on one of our Needle Felting Kits to make your own gifts this Christmas. Available are Flower, Butterfly, Jewellery - Necklace or Bracelet and a Felted Fairy.

Red Christmas Fairy Angel
now available as a kit to purchase from knitshop.co.uk

Last posting for Christmas is Saturday 20th December. After that we can’t guarantee your gifts will arrive on time. Our boutique outlet store is open this Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11am until 4pm where you can buy, browse or collect your orders. If you live outside London, a knitshop.co.uk gift voucher may be a more suitable gift. These are available in £20 and £40 denominations and can be used to buy items from our shop or to pay for one of our creative workshops.

If you’d like to give a knitting or crochet-related gift, feel free to call us for ideas and advice on 020 7099 8864 or email info@knitshop.co.uk.  

Links to this blog:
Addi knitting needles http://www.knitshop.co.uk/334-addi-knitting-needles

Angora Soft Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/333-angora-yarn

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

Felting Kits: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/143-felting-kits

Kolibri Wool Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/176-kolibri-yarn

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

Knitting and Crochet Accessories: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/62-knitting-accessories
knitshop.co.uk Workshops: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/156-workshops
knitshop.co.uk Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/81-knitting-yarn

knitshop.co.uk Patterns: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/161-knitshop-pattern

knitshop.co.uk Gift Voucher: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/188-gift-voucher

Merino Wool Tops:
http://www.knitshop.co.uk/merino-tops/2755-assorted-merino-bag.html

Merino Wool Tops 1kg Mixed Bag: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/merino-tops/2594-mixed-merino-bag.html

The Royal Wedding

Tomorrow at 11am Prince William & Kate Middleton are to tie the knot for the rest of their lives. The press and digital media not just in the UK, also abroad has been full of news, information and speculative details about the big day. Believe it or not, also the Knitting World has been taken over by the big event taking place on 29th April 2011. I have been putting together a collection of patterns and articles from the knitting magazines and the web for you.

Deborah from Simply Knitting says "the best bit is that you dont have to have blue blood, or even be getting married, to want to knit something.." Simply Knitting Spring 2011. There are some great patterns for your to try in this month spring issue, one of them being the Silken Cream p61. Not to forget the Gloves for a Spring Wedding by Just Call Me Ruby aka Susan Crawford, the co-author of A Stitch In Time and author Vintage Gifts To Knit, in which the pattern for those gorgeous gloves is published. So if you are getting married this year or one of your loved ones, these are an ideal accessory to finish the outfit of your dreams and feel like a real princess.

Simply Knitting also has a Royal Wedding Celebration supplement with 6 fantastic patterns to knit for perfect gifts and keepsakes. Your very own Union Jack cushion, a very royal Crown tea cosy or the very best bunting to decorate your garden or street party and much more.

Knit Today Magazine featuring 6 quick knits in honour of the royal wedding by Dorothy Wood. Lace gloves, Corsage Barrette, beaded tiara, patriotic bunting, flower gift bag and of course the Union Jack cushion. My favourite definitely being the Corsage barrette, which reminds a little of the fascinator - becoming more of the fashion for official events instead of large Ascot type headgear. Perhaps you remember, Knitonthenet the on-line knitting magazine featured a great pattern for fascinators knitted in knitshop.co.uk Mulberry Silk yarn.

Knit Your Own Royal Wedding this is a book that's just recently being published, in my opinion, of all this is the most hilarious thing I have seen this year. The book features pattern for Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince Harry, the Queen, the bride and the groom and many more. The knitted dolls are made with astonishing definition of detail and most precise knitting. I have seen the book as well as the real knitted characters at one of the knitting shows back in March this year. Fiona Goble, the author of the book had a talk at the show, it was amusing and entertaining at the same time to listen to her incredible story of how she came up with the ideas and designed the most elaborate knitted dolls. The book Knit Your Own Royal Wedding is published by Ivy Press and costs £9.99.

The dress - the most speculation has been around the dress, what will Kate's dress look like?
Has the dress indeed been designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of the Alexander McQueen label.... "Catherine Middleton, the making of a modern princess" by Vogue.co.uk

What ever you do tomorrow on Will's & Kate's big day..... Enjoy your bank holiday with some great knitting and hopefully lots of sunshine.
Julieta @knitshop.co.uk

Here is a list of the products, patterns and magazines mentioned above:
Mulberry silk yarn, knitshop.co.uk
Simply Knitting, Knit Today
Knitonthenet
Susan Crawford Vintage Knitting, Just call me ruby blog
A Stitch In Time & Vintage Gifts To Knit
Fascinator Notorious
Sarah Burton, Alexander McQueen
Vogue.co.uk
Knit Your Own Royal Wedding
Simply Knitting and Knit Today to buy online
Gloves for a Spring Wedding