Fibre and Clay

By DomesticMiss on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 10:25AM PDT

Fibre and Clay is an outstanding yarn store with a selection that wildly supersedes the best John Lewis department store and a service that scores on all accounts. The shop is on two floors, the clay part, as well as jewellery, is downstairs, while yarns, buttons, needles, hooks, books, bags and more are all upstairs. It is luminous and spacious and even does a library service whereby, by leaving a deposit of £ 10, one book can be taken home and returned within two weeks. I keep exchanging mine! Knitting groups run on Tuesdays and Thursdays (these are free) and workshops are plentiful. From finishing techniques to Fair Isle, from knitting socks to lace knitting, the workshops are varied and informative, and for only £ 40 for the whole day, lunch at a local restaurant is also included. Yet another opportunity to hook up with like-minded people. I do not know why Fibre and Clay isn't more popular, at least on the web; I have travelled extensively and this has to be one of the very best and most original shops I have ever visited. The website doesn't do it justice. Go to Knutsford, meet the most lovely Rihanna and Nigel and see for yourself.