#Knitsky, know someone who’s been saying they’d love to learn to knit? 🧶  I’ve got a blog full of beginner-friendly tutorials and tips, perfect for anyone ready to pick up their first needles: https://stolenstitches.com/blogs/welcome/beginner-knitting-start-your-knitting-journey-here

If you’re looking to shop small this year, my ethical gift guide is full of gift ideas, with a particular focus on reducing waste www.collingwoodnorrisdesign.com/knitwearblog... #ethicalgiftguide #shopsmall #ethicalgifts

I didn't watch last night's #GameofWool because we were out at a Skerryvore gig, which was excellent. And as I've only been watching because it's car-crash telly and I can't believe how awful it is, I've read all the comments on here and don't need to endure the programme itself now

Honestly at this point I’m just watching #GameofWool waiting for the moment when Holger snaps and does a murder

Fascinating history, brilliant photography.

I’m thrilled to be giving this year’s Kelmscott Lecture, the annual lecture hosted by the William Morris Society. I’m excited to be dipping my toe into the world of the Arts and Crafts movement. Join us in person or online! Tickets are here: williammorrissociety.org/events/the-k...

I recapped Holiday Week on #GameOfWool: ariadnereviews.com/2025/11/20/g... a cuirass for a jester, Yasmin Harper's feminist performance art, Isaac's cottagecore lesbian potential and an accidental 12 seconds of Line of Duty.

When people are mean to you, remember the universal truth that it comes from their own fears, not from a deficiency in you. So don’t react. Chin up. Wait for the reality of their own internal conflict to take care of it.

Not just the Rav Indie event, it's also the start of the Fasten Off Yarnalong! the 25% discount period lasts for 2 weeks, the yarnalong continues until 31 Dec. www.fastenoffyal.com/script.cgi?T...

Thread. I promise it's not just about my book, but offers some fascinating and really helpful insights into trans bodies and size and fit.

#Edinburgh #Bookshops

Lots of interesting and completely factual discussion in this thread

Scotia discovering llamas

The sofa's a bit full...

Useful!

Well we said Black and Asian home secretaries are used as a shield to implement racist policies a white man couldn’t get away with and there’s no starker example than this. The worst kind of identity politics.

Welsh social reformer Robert Owen died on this day 1858, aged 86. At 21, became manager of Manchester's Piccadilly Mill, where he ran an enlightened regime, joined the Literary and Philosophical Society. Later carried the principles into model community at New Lanark, Scotland.

It is perfectly possible to hand-knit a functional swimming costume. But it takes the right yarn, firm knitting, and enough time. #GameOfWool www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I really wish someone would comment on how hard knitting and crocheting with such thick yarn and enormous needles/hooks is on hands, wrists and shoulders. And also the implication that they are sat still knitting for 12 hours without a break. Health-wise, it's appalling. #GameOfWool

Oh FFS (which I seem to be saying a lot regarding this)! Tonight's Game of Wool is doing the old chestnut of wool swimwear. Those of us of a certain age or older can remember how poorly handknitted (or crocheted) swimwear performs under wet conditions.

🧵 Game of Wool on channel 4, uses Rowan yarn. Rowan is owned by Lion Group, one of those gross private equity vultures who ruin everything they touch. The entire show is an advertising op for them. Try knitting using our shit products, our shit patterns they say. All profit. No heart. 1/3

I loathe and despise the orange one, but even *I* didn’t know about these unconscionable actions. PLEASE REPOST WIDELY.

But also very impressed at the matching owl and shirt.

Another wasted opportunity, like so many these days. I suppose the investors aren't interested in making tv/film good enough to stand the test of time. This one won't.

When dust looks at you. As a glass painter I work with dust, which I fire in my kiln. Sometimes I surprise myself, as today, from the intensity of the Green Man’s gaze.

To be fair he’s been the biggest bait and switch Prime minister this country has ever seen. Promises were dropped (eg Levison), Tory policy that should’ve been dropped (pursuing the disabled and poor rather than the mega rich) were fervently pursued, and a human rights lawyer trashed trans rights.

I also kinda think old people in general but old men absolutely do not understand how much watching what was done to Monica Lewinsky radicalized a lot of younger Gen X/older millennial women. I don’t think I know a single person under like 55 who would save his ass. Take them all down.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.

This is absolutely true. And we know there's an appetite for watching skilled people make beautiful things.

Excellent point too. #GameOfWool

People: The beauty of nature reminds us that wildlife isn't local, it's global and we share it with the world, a delicate connection that needs care. Vulnerable creatures like these give the entire area its appeal & wonder. Irish Times: fuck these ugly honking swans, our friends want money.

We've had Scotia for half her life now. Eight weeks old to four months old. From a puppy to a small housewolf. #NorthernInuit

Thursday plans: 🖼️ Sarah Lynne

It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.

Anyone not in the UK wanting to watch #GameOfWool, someone's uploaded the episodes on YouTube 🧶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OT1...

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

Fun thread! (Bombs! Wrecks! Danger UXB!)

Can't go wrong with a historical eel story.

And I'm out! Publicationally speaking. So here's a folklore quiz to celebrate!

Early medieval archaeologists now want to tell you about dogwhelk shellfish, the production of tiny amounts of the colour purple and the association of that colour with power since late antiquity across the Mediterranean and Europe

And Angela Harding's work is lovely, for a basic traditional #AdventCalendar: angelaharding.co.uk/collections/...

And now I've found this #AdventCalendar, and I love St Eval's scents: www.st-eval.com/products/tea...

And for handspinners, Adelaide Walker have been doing an excellent fibre #AdventCalender for a few years now. I did their #TourdeFleece one in the summer. www.adelaidewalker.co.uk/british-wool...

We've had the Courtyard Dairy's #Cheese #AdventCalendar for the past two years, and it's been glorious. Complete with tasting notes and enough for two people for each portion (if you can bear to share.) www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/shop/buy-che...

Day 11 unlocked here. Can I make it...?

Happy little design elements 😉 #knitsky

This is rather lovely.

Tales of True Crime, Orkney : Theft and Pickery theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/10/t...

He's not wrong! #ECHR