My mum taught me to knit, for which I am eternally grateful. However, my flourishing skills were crushed when, age 6, I proudly held up a holey strip of stripey bins ends and was told by my granny that, at my age, she’d already knitted a peacock blue dress…

I refound my lost love when, during a heavy year in Greece, I tried to find something to act as a displacement activity for an uncontrollable love of nicotine.

With no-one on hand to guide me through I created some amazing Frankenstein pieces; A sock for a one-legged giant; a scarf for said giant’s long-necked wife, and half a black jumper that was taking so long I lost the will after 2 rows..

So many of the things I wanted to do were unachievable or went drastically wrong and almost put me off. It only improved when I set my self a small project, actually made the effort to get the right needles, the right wool and follow the right pattern. And suddenly – success! That’s why I started Charlie Button Knit Kits - so starter knitters can achieve something that isn’t a scarf and that looks good. From there I started developing simple patterns always with an eye on whether it would be something I could have made when I started out.

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