We’re delighted to be able to show you about these gorgeous new knitting bags that have been made exclusively for us.

Each knitting bag measures 45cm x 32cm and contains pockets inside to hold your notions and other bits.

One of our customers kindly sent me a picture of the quilt she made using Natalie Ross’ quilt pattern Woodland Magic.  I thought you might lie to see it

Mrs Clark – I got your email however my replies are being bounced back to me. Please could you email me directly at sales@hulucrafts.co.uk.

Vicky

It’s not often that you can buy single pattern sheets these days, at least, not from the major yarn companies.  However Sublime have printed some of the favourite baby patterns as single sheets!  A great idea in my opinion.

I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and would like to wish you call a Happy New Year.

Hulu’s January Sale has already started, with many good reductions on yarns, fabric and pattern books.  Do browse our sale pages and pick up a good deal to get you started on your new year projects.

My Mum’s been busy on her sewing machine and she made this Christmas Tree wall hanging for the shop.  I’ve hooked it over the top of a door.

I think that the simplicity of it, makes it more effective.  It’s just made up of diamonds in different greens for the tree and a plain background.  The little lights were something she picked up at the craft show at Westpoint, Exeter back in September, but you could thread glass beads on to some thin ribbon to achieve something similar.

Yesterday was an exciting day…  in the morning we signed up to be a Debbie Bliss stockist and placed an order for lots of baby cashmerino yarn.  I’m still mulling over which other Debbie Bliss yarns to stock, so if you’ve got any favourites, do add a comment below.  I particularly love Andes which is sooo soft and squishable.

Then in the evening I went to a fashion show in Bovey Tracy, where not only did I have a nice meal with lots of other knitting friends, we saw lots of garments from Debbie Bliss’s Autumn collections, got to try them on afterwards and best of all… I got to meet Debbie Bliss herself!  She seemed relaly nice, wanting to hear all about the shop and telling me about how she goes about choosing new yarns.  I was quite chuffed to be able to chat with her.

Debbie Bliss and me!

Hello to all the customers, both existing and new, who I met at the Textile Fair, Duchy Square Centre in Princetown at the weekend! I had a very nice couple of days there and I was delighted to meet some customers who came and introduced themselves. It’s always nice to put a face to the names I see appearing on parcels going in the post. I also enjoyed chatting with new customers, as well as the other stall holders, who came from a variety of different disciplines.

Friday 29th October, Saturday 30th October, 10am – 4pm

The Duchy Square Centre for Creativity in Princetown will play host to the Textile Trade Fair, designed to connect major suppliers of textile materials from across the country with both existing textile practitioners and those wishing to take up the craft.

Among the major names already signed up to take part in the Textile Trade Fair include The Handweavers Gallery based in London, a real coup as they are an established, highly reputable company with a worldwide customer base, who rarely do trade fairs.

Well known natural dyer Helen Melvin from Wales, the only person in the UK to produce ink from natural sources for textile dying is also attending along with Claire Crompton from Gunnislake in Cornwall, one of the country’s most highly regarded professional knitwear designer.

Lesley Prior of Devon Fine Fibres from Tiverton, renowned for high quality wool from her Bowmont sheep flock – the only flock of its kind in the world – has also agreed to attend.

Duchy Square resident weaver Jillian Morris is also taking a stand at the fair to supply recycled sari yarns and Injabulo buttons with her daughter Hannah Parsons Irankunda under their business name Zimame. The Injabulo range is particularly popular with textile practitioners.

And of course… Hulu will be there with some of our yarns and fabric too!

This weekend has been a good weekend of knitting.  Not that I was knitting anything in particular but it started on Friday with our yarn tasting evening.  Stupidly I forgot to take photos!  We tried 6 yarns: Rico Creative Poems Aran, Rico Soft Merino Aran, Twilley’s Freedom Purity, Sublime Chunky Merino Tweed, Rico Can Can and Rico Superba Poems Sock yarn – which only arrived in the shop on Friday afternoon!  I think that the Poems Aran came out as one of the favourites.

Then today was KTOG4, a knitting event in Ashburton, Devon where I had a stall alongside Claire Crompton (author of The Knitter’s Bible and other great knitting books), Anniken Allis and Spin a Yarn.  There were lots of knitters and crocheters there, of all abilities, having a great afternoon with wool, needles, tea and cake.  I did remember to take some photos this time though.

My Stall

Joyce from Spin a Yarn

Anniken Allis

Claire Crompton and a knitting lesson