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  1. Mixing Brands

    Here at Knit With Attitude we have a wide range of brands available, but you don’t have to stick to just one when planning your project. Plenty of different combinations can be achieved by mixing and matching. Not only does it widen your potential palette of colours, but it can also make things more affordable. Especially when combining that special...
    Mixing Brands
  2. Throwback Thursday –
    Pan's Snood

    For this edition of Throwback Thursday we have the Pan's Snood. The Pan's Snood was designed to celebrate the launch of Garnsurr's Pan when it arrived at Knit With Attitude. This luscious and interesting blend is perfect for little accessories and one skein projects. Pan is an earthy blend of 70% Buck Moahir and 30% Dala sheep. All hand dyed...
    Throwback Thursday – Pan's Snood
  3. Book Review - Colorwork Shawls by Melanie Berg

    The second shawl book by designer Melanie Berg has arrived. This time with a Colourwork leaning. Colorwork Shawls presents a selection of Melanie's best loved shawls along with some new designs created especially for the book. The book contains 12 designs featuring a myriad of different techniques for using colour. Slip stitches, mosaic patterns, gradients and fun colour combos. Included are...
    Book Review - Colorwork Shawls by Melanie Berg
  4. Throwback Thursday –
    Herat Snood

    For this edition of Throwback Thursday we are looking at the Herat Snood. Knit in the super special From the Mountain - Afghan Cashmere. This pattern is ornamental and sumptuous and is a great way of honouring this equally as sumptuous yarn. Designed by Natalie Selles this snood is a great one skein project. Natalie says of the design: 'There’s nothing...
    Throwback Thursday – Herat Snood
  5. Exploring Plystre Needle Cases

    These new in store needle cases from Plystre were tempting knitters on the Great London Yarn Crawl when we first got them in. So much so they snapped nearly all of them up. Blink and you will miss them! Well lucky for you, you won't need to wait much longer to get your hands on them. We have listed the next batch...
    Exploring Plystre Needle Cases
  6. What to knit? - Chunky Edition!

    The beautiful Stitch & Story has landed at Knit With Attitude. Filling our shelves with its plump and luscious merino softness, its The Chunky Yarn. We have 14 super yummy colours to choose from, but what do we knit with all this loveliness? Below I talk a little bit about the yarn and provide you with some tantalising pattern ideas. Reach for...
    What to knit? - Chunky Edition!
  7. Throwback Thursday –
    Wrap Me Up Cardigan

    What better project to reminisce about now the weather is beginning to turn and the chill of autumn is in the air.  For this edition of Throwback Thursday we have the Wrap Me Up Cardigan. A massively inviting, cosy oversized cardigan designed by Maya and knit in the oh so soft Du Store Alpakka Hexa. This cardigan combines the magical softness...
    Throwback Thursday – Wrap Me Up Cardigan
  8. Throwback Thursday -
    Spitalfields Shawl

    For this, the first of the Throwback Thursday posts we are casting our minds back to 2015 and the 5th anniversary of Knit With Attitude. The aptly named Spitalfields Shawl takes its name from Maya's beginnings with Knit With Attitude. Maya started her shop as a stall at the Spitalfield's Market with two boxes of yarn. The Spitalfield's Shawl was launched at...
    Throwback Thursday - Spitalfields Shawl
  9. What Maya Knits -
    Moonshadow Tunic

    Yay, I just finished something - and not just any something, but a gorgeous test knit I did for my lovely friend Julie Knits in Paris. If you've followed the blog for a while you'll know that this is not the first of Julie's designs that I've made, I do adore her sense of construction, and this is often what...
    What Maya Knits - Moonshadow Tunic
  10. Exploring Plystre

    It's hard to avoid here at Knit With Attitude that the Plystre project bags are our ultimate favourites when it comes to carrying around our knitting. We have the project bag, crossbody bag, pouch and backpack. With this post I want to take a thorough look at each model and get up close to all the amazing design features built into these bags...
    Exploring Plystre
  11. What to do with Mini Skeins!

    Mini Skeins! So tempting, so cute and you can't just have one. So what do you do with them all? I love minis and I seem to magpie towards them. So when we had the delivery of Black Elephant arrive bringing our total up to 32 colours, my mouth was watering! Minis are a great way of sampling a dyer's style or...
    What to do with Mini Skeins!
  12. New Yarn: G-uld - No. 4

    We have been smitten with G-uld ever since our amazing adventure on their dyeing workshop. Read more about our experience in my earlier blog post. Their naturally dyed yarns, in colours that defy imagination just have to be seen to be believed. We have been enjoying G-uld Alpaca for a while now but now we have a new member of the...
    New Yarn: G-uld - No. 4

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