While there may be no urgent need today to send socks to soldiers, hand-knitted socks still make a lovely gift for a new baby, relative, friend or as a treat…
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Download your Curved Pieced Bag pattern
With elegant lines and a magnetic fastener, the Emilia Patchwork bag features simple curved piecing. Choose your colour palette and give it a go! Here’s your free Emillia Patchwork pattern…
Download your GBSB Palazzo Pants pattern
Swish into summer in these elegant Great British Sewing Bee trousers from the brand-new GBSB book. They have a lovely fluid shape that works with either flats or heels,…
How To Knit: Adding fabric trimmings to a knitting project
Knitting and sewing can seem very different, but when you mix the two together, there are some stunning results to be had! We show you how.
How To Knit: Working with fashion yarn
Elaborately textured yarns can be a little tricky to get used to, but The Woman’s Weekly experts have plenty of suggestions, which will make using any fancy yarn easy! Fashion yarns…
Kirstie Allsopp’s Christmas tree crochet winner is Matthew Spiers
Big-bearded Matthew Spiers won the Christmas tree decorating competition on Kirstie Allsopp’s Handmade Christmas TV show and, quite appropriately, appeared proudly kitted-out in handmade crocheted clothing. We were very impressed!…
13 crazy knitting materials you never thought you could knit with
1. String Lurking at the back of your kitchen drawer, string makes for a perfect knitting material. Long, of consistent thickness and smooth, it’s also incredibly strong and durable so…
Woman’s Weekly Best Of Our Vintage Patterns Bookazine
Reprinted due to popular demand, we're thrilled to announce the retun of the Woman's Weekly Best Of Our Vintage Patterns knitting bookazine. In stores until the 31st December 2015, it's…
How to make a Christmas jumper
Give an old unloved sweater a new lease of life with one of our two easy-to-make festive designs. Home Editor Emily Dawe and Knitting Assistant Freddie Patmore had a go…
15 things you definitely need to know when you’re knitting Clangers
To celebrate the brand new series of Clangers on CBeebies, the BBC have produced a brand new free pattern so start knitting Clangers right now and make your very own…
How To Knit: 5 top tips when knitting with Mohair yarns
How To Knit: Top tips when knitting with mohair 1. Hairy yarns such as mohair, tend to blend together when you’re counting your stitches on your needle and it can be…
Artist Kate Jenkins creates the most amazing knitted fish
We first spotted artist Kate Jenkins on BBC’s The One Show early in 2015, proudly showing off her impressive hand-knitted dinner. She’d hand-embellished a life-sized plaice with shimmering silver sequins…
10 reasons why British WOOL is the very best fibre for knits
UK Wool Week is a wonderful way to celebrate this amazing natural, renewable and biodegradable product. The Campaign For Wool is proudly in its 7th year, with HRH The Prince…
Find out what’s in this year’s goody bags at Woman’s Weekly Live!
Don’t forget to buy your goody bag at Woman’s Weekly Live! – only £3.00 for £15.00 worth of goodies Every year we get a bag of goodies together and…
Birthday boy! The 14 cutest royal Prince George pictures
The Woman’s Weekly Team would love to wish Prince George a very happy birthday! He turns two today, 22 July 2015. Isn’t he getting big? We hope he has…
Fashion after breast cancer
Teresa Stone, 52 (pictured, right) ‘My sister discovered she had breast cancer three years ago and her doctor told her that my other sister and I should get checked, as…
Clangers return with free knitting pattern
Our favourite small mouse-like aliens with their unmistakable sound are back! And the Clangers knitting pattern is very cute Clangers have made a comeback this year with a brand…
How To Knit: Lace knitting
Not sure how to add decorative lace to a knitting project? Our experts talk you through it.
How To Knit Toys: 5 top tips from our experts on how to stuff knitted toys
Knitting Expert Freddie Patmore recommends polyester toy stuffing for children’s toys but, for other items, shows how you can use everything from kidney beans to bricks in our video. Handknitted…
Inside our learn to crochet workshop
At Woman’s Weekly HQ in London, 29 keen readers joined us to learn to crochet and were quickly hooked We know that lots of our wonderful readers are very…