About

 

The Knitting Gift Shop is a small business owned and run by Tricia and Ian Fothergill

It is situated in Crook, a small market town in the Wear Valley on the edge of the North Pennines. It is from the Weardale countryside that we draw inspiration when choosing the colours for our range of wool which is carefully sourced and spun in the UK and the majority of it is hand dyed by ourselves. The diverse range of products are all designed by Tricia, taught to knit at the age of five by her mother, who was herself an accomplished knitter and seamstress and whose influence still inspires Tricia’s work today. The knitting kits range encompasses a broad selection of items such as brooches, purses, hand warmers, hats, bags, cushions, scarves, wraps  and cowls. There is also a good choice of ‘Easy Knit’ kits ideally suited to beginner knitters.

Because we are primarily a gift shop we also have a range of luxury knitting hampers, gift baskets and gift sets featuring our kits alongside lots of other knitting related goodies, many of them unique and made for us by local craftspeople and artisans.

As The Knitting Gift Shop we also exhibit at many Yarn Shows throughout the UK bringing our yarn, knitting kits, accessories, shawl pins and notions as well as a large range of Tricia's knitting patterns and pattern booklets.

All of the patterns can be purchased separately online at our sister website Natural Knits 

We can put together bespoke gift hampers and gift sets from anything on our website and all products come with an optional free personalised gift card.

Happy Browsing

Tricia & Ian x