Our Heartfelt Thanks

A quick note from us to share our sincere and deepest thanks for the kindness with which you met our announcement on Friday. We’ve always known we have the best customers, but nothing could have quite prepared us for the outpouring of love and support we’ve received over the past few days. The well wishes, the memories you’ve shared, the orders you’ve placed, the shares … we’ve truly felt a warm, woolly embrace from our amazing community, and we’re more grateful for it than we can say. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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A Letter from Jen, Jim and Kat

CONTENT WARNING: This post mentions mental health and illness. It is a lengthy post, and we have provided a short summary at the start.

SUMMARY: It is with great sadness that we must close Arnall-Culliford Techniques for quite some time. While the business is not closing down entirely, it will shrink to a shell for many months to come, entering an extended hibernation. This has come about as a consequence of Jen becoming very ill and being unable to work for quite some time. We will be having a clearance sale, which will happen in stages to keep the workload manageable and will then close down our office.

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Shetland Trader Book 3 Arrives, and Exciting KAL News!

It’s release day for Gudrun Johnston’s Shetland Trader Book Three: Heritage, and let me tell you, we are pretty excited around here! Our team has been buzzing about this newest book from Gudrun since we first laid eyes on it, and we just can’t wait to get some of the stunning designs onto our needles. And on that note, we have some exciting news to share …

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Shetland Trader Book 3: Heritage by Gudrun Johnston

To say that we have been excited about this release would be something of an understatement…

I’m not entirely sure when I first started to talk to Gudrun Johnston (below) about working on her next print book, but from a trawl through my extensive email collection, it seems to have been around five years ago. From the start I knew that this collection was going to be something really special.

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The Yarn Fumes are Getting to Us!

It’s been a super-exciting few days as we’ve prepared for the release of batches of Old Maiden Aunt & Fab Funky Fibres hand-dyed yarn in our online shop! Lilith and Elaine both contributed special hand-dyed yarns to Confident Knitting (OMA yarn is featured in this month’s Burnished Mittens and the FFF yarn is to-be-revealed), so we were so excited when the opportunity for a more sustained collaboration presented itself.

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Meet Team Arnall-Culliford + A Giveaway!

It’s been a season of change for Arnall-Culliford Knitwear, and one piece of that has been growing the team from two to four! Our newest team members, Lou and Kat, have been settling into their new roles, so we thought it was high time we introduce you to the small but mighty crew dedicated to helping you unlock your full knitting potential. And we’re celebrating the change with a giveaway … read on for details!

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Confident Knitting: The Designers

It’s here, it’s here: LAUNCH DAY! Which is exciting for a whole heap of reasons. You can now buy Confident Knitting! Which means we’ll all be casting on together soon! And, most immediately exciting: I can finally shout about the out-of-this world team of designers whose patterns we’ll be learning with over the coming months! These folks have been so amazing over the last year as we have worked on the book – through one of the most difficult years I can remember. They’ve come up with some really beautiful designs, and I know you’re going to love knitting them! So without further ado, let’s say hello to the team!

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