If you’re looking for a simple but luxurious Christmas knit at a nice price, then how about our gorgeous striped wrap, knit using Cushendale Mohair Wool Boucle from Kilkenny, Ireland (special Springwools price of just €6.95 a ball). This generously-sized warm and cosy wrap took just 3 balls – the colours we used were Wine, Burnt Orange and Foxglove.

Materials:
Pair 6.5mm knitting needles
3 x Cushendale Mohair Wool Boucle of different colours

Directions:
Using Colour A, cast on 60 stitches.
Knit every row for 30cm.
Switch to Colour B and knit every row for 30cm, then switch to Colour C for 30cm.
Repeat until you have a beautiful, snuggly wrap!

“Zita’s Handmade Home” is a new series here on the blog, and one we’ve really been looking forward to kicking off. Zita is our resident houseproud interior design lover (she can regularly be spotted attempting to feng shui our chaotic shop floor!)

Zita uses her home as a showpiece for her love of knitting and handmaking, and we’ll be sharing projects from her crafty home on a regular basis.

Our first peak into Zita’s home shows her fabulously fun and quirky sofa cushion, knit using spectacular new sparkly King Cole Galaxy. The “Galactic Skyline” cushion used 2 balls of cream King Cole Galaxy and 2 balls of black Rowan Pure Wool DK. Zita adapted the New York skyline pattern from an original Marc Jacobs design. If you fancy recreating this ritzy cushion, Zita’s pattern is available free in-store with King Cole Galaxy purchases (or just leave a comment at checkout when shopping online).

The Springwools Membership Club has been running for a pretty impressive 15 years. And these days, its bigger and better than ever. Our Membership Club allows customers who sign up to receive the best deals and promotional offers, first dibs at sale time, reduced and free delivery promotions throughout the year, free gifts and invites to special events.

And best of all – the glossy, full-colour Springwools Club Members’ magazine four times a year!.

Our new issue (pictured) is being despatched this week, and if you’d like to receive it and the next three issues, plus other goodies, you can sign up to the Springwools Membership Club online. You can also subscribe by phoning (01) 4509134.

We’re very excited about the super cute new knitting goodies from Irish company, Purlette. Having just received our first delivery of this delightful range of stitch markers, point protectors and knitting charms, we’ve already had to order lots more – these lovely handmade items are flying out of the shop. Yay!

You can view or buy the full range of pretty Purlette accessories in our online shop. Purlette tell us that they hope to expand the range to include even more adorable knitting and crochet accessories soon.

This week we’ll be updating the online shop with the oodles of lovely, lovely new yarns that have been arriving into the shop almost daily at the moment. We’ll report back here once they’re up, with the lowdown on all the loveliness.

Before we do that though, we figured we’d give you a peek at a couple of our favourite new additions that have already made it to the online shop, and which are selling like hot cakes.

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Lang Merino Lace 400
Lang Merino Lace is a luxurious 100% merino laceweight yarn in a lush range of 10 colours at a lovely, affordable price (just €2.95 for a 400m ball!) We adore this scrumptiously soft yarn and its gorgeous, on-trend colour palette.

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Cushendale Mohair Boucle
Cushendale Woollen Mills is one of Irelands few authentic woollen mills. For generations, Cushendale have produced natural fibre textiles in unique colour, design and craftsmanship in Kilkenny. This 70% Mohair 30% Wool Bouclé yarn is a high quality, beautifully soft handknitting yarn in a glorious array of rich shades. Springwools are proud to offer this wonderful Irish yarn at the special, reduced price of €6.95 a 100g ball.