A Right Royal Stitch Up: Behind the Hubbub of Hearts
Royal Wedding bells are clanging so loud across the UK that most of us can barely hear ourselves knit. Love the Royal madness or loathe it there is no escape, and back in February we gave our own woolly Royal wave to the big event and wrote London a handmade love letter, with our Hubbub of Hearts.
Read MoreYarnstorm the Fourteenth: Bobbing Bear-lin Luftballons
Once upon a time there were four sneaky stitchers who lived in a secret wool-lined Bunker in the heart of the ancient city of London. There they knit and crocheted and made magic with their needles which they sent out into the world to seek its fortune.
Read MoreYarnstorm on Screen: Handmade Herd
The Handmade Herd has wended its way across London Bridge and disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Still here? Want more? A last encore? Well, button those lips and slip behind this curtain. Let the Magic Lantern of the sorceresses of Alt Artist show you the wonders of the Handmade Herd with Moving Pictures.
Read MorePermission to yarnstorm: Knit the City knit John Smedley
It was an unlikely match: one of Britain's oldest knitwear designers (they've been making trendy knits for over 200 years) and one of London's sneakiest stitching crews. But when John Smedley invited the Knit the City Yarn Corps to show a little of their history in graffiti knitted form we were wooed by just how much history they had.
Read MoreYarnstorm on Screen: Oranges and Lemons Odyssey – the movie
Once in a lifetime a film comes along that will touch your heart, make you laugh till tea comes out of your nose, make you cry till you get a dehydration headache, and make you wish that you could live you life again and do it alllllll so differently that world peace ensued and all famine was wiped out. This is not that film. But it is pretty freaking cool.
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