The other day in the shop, I noticed a customer had pulled a few skeins in a colour combo always gets me, so of course it immediately caught my eye. One thing led to another (as it always does in a yarn store), and we got chatting. Turns out her
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This post was written by Bee If you’ve been on Instagram, Tik Tok or Facebook in the last five years, you may have heard tell about the rise of “Sad Beige Knitting.” Or… maybe not? Everyone’s algorithms are so different! If you haven’t heard of this term or idea, it
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Once a year, we embark on one of the great traditions of yarn shop life: Inventory Day. It’s the time when we count every skein, needle, and button. There will be spreadsheets. There will be recounts. There will almost certainly be someone asking, “Didn’t we already count that?” To give
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Did you know that Baaad Anna’s sponsors a football team? It’s true! We are proud supporters of the Britannia Micro Footie. While yarn and football might not seem like the most obvious pairing, supporting local community initiatives has always been part of who we are. When we say we support
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Every year on the second Saturday in June, knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, and fibre weirdos take their projects out into the world for Worldwide Knit in Public Day. This year it falls on June 13th 2026. For one day, fibre artists gather in parks, cafés, libraries, breweries to do exactly
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