SALE!

Seeing as it's the season of the sale, we thought we should clear out the back room.
We now have silly prices on cones for machine knitting. Lots of colours and textures starting at 25p.
Hurry while stocks last!

PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND ANIMATION BY DAVID SHRIGLEY.

GOOD LUCK LADY AND BABY X.

Good luck to the lady who went into labuor in our Beginners Crochet class last night. You picked up the concept very quickly considering the circumstances. We hope you are ok, and wish you and the baby well.

AXYL AND SLASH VISIT PYF.

We disguised our suprise, when Axl and Slash rocked up to Prick Your Finger this weekend. We have always maintained that when superstars shop with us, they will be treated the same as everyone else. This time we made an exception and took them to Louise's house to freak out.
Slash found my appliqued double neck guitar much lighter than his own, and he said our top hat, knitted by Kitty in a blend of wool and back bin liners, was really cool. Axl found the amplification from our giant knitting needles most empowering. He was running up and down the bedroom all afternoon.

Actually I can't tell a lie. That's us in the photos. We keep being asked for press shots, and after discussing new looks, we realised we could be who ever we wanted, so this Sunday, we were/ will be again, Axl and Slash.Dear Siobth,
Thank you for taking the pictures. What a brilliant way to spend an afternoon!
Love R x

FAIRY GODMOTHER CLARE FINISHED THE BLANKET IN TIME FOR THE BAPTISM.

Congratulations Clare on finishing the cot blanket in time for your goddaughter's baptism!
Clare bought Cornish Organic, Wendsleydale and Shetland DK yarns in blue, yellow and brown for her second crochet project.
A baby girl, arrived 3 weeks early, before the blanket was finished. Luckily, the baptism 6 months later was a more achievable deadline. The blanket has proved very popular and was even taken on a camping trip.
I think this blanket will be treasured for many years to come!

LOUDER THAN BOMBS.

Here is the poster for our new residency in the show 'Louder than Bombs' at the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University. Inspired by The Smiths, the show will run for 7 weeks, with 7 residences and 7 ways to activate change.
Other artists include, Ansuman Biswas, Aine Philips, Steven Levon Ounanian and Thomas Thwaites, Sean Burn, Stacy Makishi and Yoshiko Shimada, and The Vacuum Cleaner.
Our week starts on 15th March (Please come visit) where we will present;

'Murder at the Wool Hall'
We are concerned that textile production which historically formed an economic back bone of Britian, has been lost to unethical manufacturing structures of disposable fashion. By constructing the world's first bicycle powered wool mill, we will turn the unwanted sheep fleeces within the M25, into a range of seductive yarns, good enough for the Queen.
Analyzing our factory's data, with live link -ups to the Stock Exchange, illustrated information from 'Love fashion, Hate Sweatshops' and 'The Environmental Justice Foundation', our factory asks the world to listen to sensible ways of profiting from nature without exploitation.
'This is the start of something we can not finish. The reward for our toil will not only be the product we make, but what we become by it. When love and skills come together, expect masterpieces. Creativity is a drug we can not live without.'

Watch this space for updates, and please come and visit us. The work will be fun and there will be regular tea breaks with bingo and dancing. The poster holds an image of Joseph Beuys in 1985, (not Michael Jackson as was originally thought.) Quote Beuys;
'Art that cannot shape society and therefore also cannot penetrate the heart questions of society, (and) in the end influence the question of capital, is no art.'
Here is Louise, age 15, in her boyfriend's bedroom listening to The Smiths "Things Take Time."
The words to the last verse which they learned off by heart together were,
'On the alcoholic afternoons,
when we sat in your room,
they meant more to me than any,
than any living thing on earth,
they had more worth,
than any living thing on earth..... '

JOSH BLACKWELL AT KATE MACGARRY GALLERY.

Josh popped in yesterday to buy some more roving. He's being thrifty, saving plastic bags, and strengthening them with woolen stitches in beautiful patterns. Josh's bags will be for sale from tomorrow night Friday 15th January, at Kate MacGarry gallery, 7a, Vyner Street E2 9DG, where you can also see his lovely drawings like the one pictured here.