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Coming Soon - Pompadour from Patons

A brand new exciting yarn from Patons - Pompadour.

Pompadour is a yarn with pom-poms, so as you knit the surface is covered in mini pom-poms. Perfect for snuggly items like scarves or baby blankets!

Each ball of Pompadour is enough for one scarf and you can see from the picture the unusual finished effect.

Choose from a great range of random colours: white/black spot, white/red spot, white/jeans spot, white/lilac spot, sylt colour (pictured) and fantasy colour.

Coming Soon - Evita from Patons

Due in at Knit and Sew this summer is the exciting 'Evita' yarn from Patons.

Evita is a multi-textured yarn made up of acrylic and wool mix. It contains ribbon, twisted, wavy and metallic strands, giving it a highly unusual and unique appearance.

Each 100g ball is enough to make up a scarf and the wool band has full instructions for making a stunning scarf.

Evita is available in a range of stunning colours including: ruby (pictured), cream, steel, black, navy (teal/petrel) and lilac (purple).

Check our online store later in the summer for this exciting new wool!

New Knitting Kits now in

Knit and Sew now has a selection of new knitting kits available, including 'Shaun the Sheep', 'Winnie the Pooh', 'Grey Bear in a Bag' and much more!

All are great fun to knit and each kit contains everything you need - priced from just £6.20.

First Knitting Kits

For all the budding knitting enthusiasts out there, we now have a brand new kit available to make knitting easy!

Including full instructions, 10 balls of wool, needles, French knitter and bodkin, the First Knitting Kit contains everything a child needs to get started and become inspired.

With instructions for casting on, increasing and decreasing, knit and purl stitches and casting off, as well as simple patterns to make this kit makes knitting fun!

(for children over 3 years)

New Knitting Pin Cases

Knitting Pin cases are now in - in delicious new patterns and colours!

Choose from red and white polka dots, black and white swirls, French-style toile in blue and chintz-style roses in shades of pink.

All with a simple zip closure and lined with toning fabric.

Click here to see the whole range! Only £3.99 each - a great gift idea!

Unusual Storage Solutions

A new item to add to our storage range - these vintage looking chest-style boxes with a New York coffee theme.

Available in two sizes, the boxes could be used to store any craft items, craft supplies such as wool, perfect for a sewing box - or any other items you need to stow away!

The larger size is approx 31 x 23.5 x 30cms. The smaller one (which handily fits inside the larger box!) is approx 27.5 x 19 x 24cms.

New Craft Items

Knit and Sew has just taken delivery of a selection of exciting new craft items.

A sewing kit is handy at home, on holiday and is a necessity for the armed forces. Our new kit is in a sturdy tin and contains everything you could possibly need. With over 70 items including a wheel of pins, a selection of needles in a handy dispenser, a tape measure, six spools of thread, a selection of buttons, press studs, safety pins, hooks and eyes, a thimble, a needle threader, a stitch ripper, a pair of scissors and tweezers.

In the same range we have a 3 metre/120" tape measure in a handy round tin, perfect to stop the tangles in your sewing box!