How about knitting a jumper for a poor old hen!  Check out this news item from the BBC link.  There are lots more articles on google about knitted jumpers for battery hens.  Where knitting is concerned anything is possible!  Enjoy!

Hyperbolic Crochet – Coral Reef

The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef” is a worldwide project that marries mathematics, marine biology, handicraft, community art practice and environmental consciousness-raising. People all over the world – from London and New York to Capetown – are collectively crocheting coral reefs.

Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef brings together the fate of an ecosystem [...]

Knitted Headband

We found this pattern for the cutest headband on the internet which can be found on the link below.    They are all the rage at the moment.  There is a pattern for a chunky version and a thin version whichever takes your fancy.  We haven’t tried it ourselves yet but when [...]

Sisters launch knitwear revival.

Siblings’ dream of a wool shop with a difference is a Stitch in time, says Andrea Byrne of the Independent.

When you walk into Stitch in the north Dublin suburb of Beaumont , all preconceived opinions of knitting you once held, will be quashed.

For a [...]

By Ciara Moynihan

Lisa Hannigan returns to Galway this December to play the city’s newest performance venue, The Live Lounge at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, on Tuesday, December 8.  In short, it should be perfect for showing off Hannigan’s haunting, otherwordly voice to the full.

It’s been a phenomenal year for Hannigan, [...]

Knitting blankets for traumatised children originally started as a simple thread of an idea from one Gisborne woman, but is now about to weave its way across New Zealand and beyond.

Joy Ashwell has spent more than a year knitting “cuddles for kids” as part of Gisborne’s Blanky Circle.

Every week she and about 70 others [...]

By Ruth O’Connor

Ladies who lunch are making way for chicks who knit at Dublin’s new creative cafe, Stitch.

Where once the nation’s sitting rooms were filled each evening with the sound of clicking needles, there is now only the blare of television. Because knitting, once considered an art, is a dying craft.

But as the country’s [...]

WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED OUR NEW RANGE OF REGIA SOCK WOOL

Regia Silk in beautiful single shades, red, wine, beige, black, dark grey, light grey, and navy

Regia Tweed in dark grey, light grey, brown and denim blue and lots more available in store.