Welcome to Knitting UK

With over 40 years of experience in knitting, teaching and design, it is our goal to provide you with the highest quality products and services. We welcome your input, so that we can provide you with the products and courses that you want.

Nancy is our resident knitter, having taught herself to knit in the early 1960s while attending a one room school in a remote area of New Brunswick, Canada. She wanted to earn her Girl Guides knitting badge and while never acquiring the badge, she did develop a lifelong love of creating something with a pair of sticks and a ball of yarn. On a couple of occasions, she did literally resort to whittling twigs into knitting needles when necessity dictated. It was virtually impossible to achieve an exact needle size, but it did allow Nancy to knit when there was wool available but no needles, and helped to fill the kerosene lamp-lit evening hours while building and living in a log cabin.

An elderly blind woman taught Nancy to knit socks in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in the 1970s, and Nancy repaid the favour by describing to the woman what was happening on the screen when their mutually favourite soap opera was on television.

Having relocated to Montreal, Nancy taught evening knitting courses at McGill University in the early 1980s and following a subsequent move to England, was one of the founders of the "Liberty Rowanettes" in London in 2002.

We hope that you will enjoy our website.

In our Knitting History section you will find historical information about the craft, as well as news about 21st century developments.

A holiday to India in 2005 provided the inspiration to import our first Products, lovely handmade Surina Knitting Needles and Crochet Hooks with beautiful finials, reminiscent of the dome of the Taj Mahal, individually turned by hand. There is a huge range of sizes and lengths available, some of which are very difficult to find elsewhere. We are pleased to provide a postal service.

We plan to set up Knitting Courses, to begin in Winter 2006. These will be held in the grounds of an historic red brick Tudor palace in Buckden, Cambridgeshire, with excellent transportation links via the M11, A1 and A14 as well as mainline rail links on GNER and WAGN trains.

We would appreciate your comments and suggestions about Knitting UK, and invite you to Contact Us.