Knitting Advice – Yarn Ball Emporium

Yarn Ball Emporium

Everything you need to knit, and everything a cat needs to unravel.

Yarn Ball Emporium

Everything you need to knit, and everything a cat needs to unravel.

October 3, 2026Knitting Advice

Seven Knitting Patterns Designed Specifically to Be Unpicked

A heap of half unravelled knitted items with a small cat holding one end of a long woollen thread

A pattern roundup for the realist.

September 15, 2026Knitting Advice, Yarn Care

How to Wind a Ball of Yarn With a Cat Holding the Other End

A tabby cat pulling a thread of yarn across a living room while a person winds a ball

A step by step guide to winding that does not end in a stand off.

September 4, 2026Knitting Advice, Yarn Care

Five Colours of Wool and What Your Cat Thinks of Each

Five balls of wool in cream, charcoal, scarlet, green and pale lemon with a cat sniffing each

A colour guide written by a panel of four cats, two of whom were awake.

August 23, 2026Knitting Advice

Our Founder’s Guide to Casting On Before the Cat Notices

A ginger cat peeking from beneath an armchair at a ball of cream wool and two needles

Madame Purlina Tangle shares a few quiet seconds of technique.