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New Giant Knit Blanket Patterns

basketweave blanket knitting pattern

Hello Pals! How are you? I hope you’re enjoying the sunshine and not tooooo hot! In a strange twist of fate I’m going to talk about the hottest possible thing today…. Giant Knit Blankets! So let’s all sit in the shade with a ice cold drink and a fan directed at us and pretend we’re […]

New Mohair Colour

Hello Babes, How are you? You might have already seen our newness from this week but I wanted to talk about it in more detail. We have a new shade of our Massive Mohair Yarn – Say hello to Milk!  Meet Milk Mohair We didn’t introduce it originally as sometimes I can find shades of […]

Introducing: Beginners Blanket Kit

Hello Lovely LADs How are you doing today? The last few weeks have been very full on, fingers crossed you’re feeling hopeful and full of action rather than overwhelmed, remember to take care of your mental health as you can’t pour from an empty jug.  I thought today we would return to the new knit […]

#AmplifyMelanatedVoices

Hello Friends, I hope you’re safe and well. Todays blog was going to be about the new blanket knit kit but with the protests and the global outcry to educate ourselves more to become anti-racist it felt FAR more useful to share with you some of my favourite activists, educators, podcasts, books and humans so […]

LAD x Pandemic Update

Hello lovelies How are you? I hope you’re keeping well and enjoying the sunshine.  Helen suggested I do an update blog this week which I imagine means she’s getting a lot of people asking the same questions on emails so here’s what’s going on in the studio… Update: May 27th It’s been an absolute honour […]

Introducing: Sock it to me Lounge Socks

Hello You Babes How are you doing this week? It’s been a beautiful sunny day here and now I’ve got an evening knitting ahead of me so I’m in my happy place! I’ve been so looking forward to this week’s blog because (you may have guessed from the title and the massive picture…) I get […]

Introducing: Diagonal Stitch Cushion

Hello You Beauties How are you pals? This week brings another new knit kit (YAS!) AND even more excitingly it’s one of four launches over the next few weeks (WHAT?! I KNOW!) Keep an eye on your inbox because new sh*t is coming! (I say 4, it’s hopefully 6 new launches but I don’t want […]

Free Gift Anyone?

Hello Pals How are you?  I’ve got some happy news today – I accidentally ordered one hundred balls of 100g Light Grey Super Chunky Yarn (don’t ask me how!) so we thought we’d try to brighten your day by giving them away with orders (yippee!)  So with all orders over £60 you get free UK […]

New Massive Mohair Yarn

Hello My Babes NEW NEW NEWNESS So we launched some new Mohair yarn at the weekend and I’m IN LOVE WITH HOW MUCH YOU LOVE IT! I wanted to give you a little introduction to it as we were originally planning on launching it with a few kits but because of THIS *wildly gestures around* […]

10 ways we’re helping the planet

Hello my babes! I hope you’re all safe and well and being kind to yourselves! Before we delve into this weeks blog I wanted to mention a giveaway i’m part of. Organised by wonderful Amy from Chambers and Beau, 25 small businesses have clubbed together to to donate (amazing!) prizes for a charity raffle – […]

New LAD Bags Stitches!

Hi Gang! Well – I can only apologise for last week, I essentially forgot what day it was because it was so busy and because Easter through me and each night I was planning on posting the blog and each night I totally forgot… until about Sunday when I called it a day and figured […]

LAD Studio Soundtrack

Hello lovelies A Mini Update… Well HOLY COW – We are so busy in the studio. I cannot thank you enough. Your orders are keeping us going and we are honoured to play a part in your isolation activities! I’m keeping the ‘What you can expect from us‘ blog reasonable up to date… Thank you […]

LAD Pattern Club

Pattern Club Bundle

Hello lovelies Exciting things this week! We’re going to ignore the current SITUATION and just talk about lovely knitty things, deal?! We’ve been working on a new project that some of you asked for and today it’s gone live (YAY!) so allow me to introduce you to the LAD Pattern Club *Cue the party poppers!*  […]

What you can expect from us

Update: May 7th I know you need knitting now more than ever, we’re currently super busy (THANK YOU!) and working our hardest to get your orders out to you as quickly as possible. Here are some quick updates and more details below. Despatch Times Due to the circumstances we’re a little slower than usual and […]

Free GRL PWR banner Pattern

Hello lovelies Happy Humpday! I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far and that you enjoyed the weekend.  This week I come bearing a free pattern in honour of International Women’s day, which I imagine you know was last Sunday. I really enjoyed reading so many inspirational stories on Sunday and wanted to share […]

Arm Knitting Tutorial

Oh Hello Pals, I hope you’re well and having a lovely week. thank you for your wonderful support about the new website and for all your orders over the weekend with the celebratory discount code (if you missed it, everyone signed up to our newsletter was sent a discount code on saturday so if you’re […]

Welcome to the new LAD Website!

Hello Friends! (I’m so excited to say this…) Welcome to our new website!!! I don’t want to keep you on this page for too long as lots of the really great stuff is on the other pages so I’ll try to keep this as quick as I can (she lied) Before After! We’ve been working […]

Brand new knitting tutorials

Hello friends! I hope you enjoyed the colourful blog last week while I was away! I got back into the studio yesterday and we spent most of the day looking at the new website – I can’t wait to share that with you in a few weeks – so I’ll be honest and admit that […]

We’ve got new colours

Hello loves! You might have already seen but HELLO WE HAVE NEW COLOURS! Our range of Super Chunky Yarn just grew with an additional 5 new beauties! They’ve already gone down a storm but I wanted to officially introduce you… Plus Chloe’s taken some beautiful pictures so any excuse for me to chat less and […]

New jumper knit-a-long!

Hello M’darlin’s! I can’t tell you how excited I’ve been to talk about this new jumper and what we have planned for it! You may have already seen it since subtlety isn’t my strong suit – I shared a few sneak peeks on Instagram before I basically just gave up and posted 3594 pictures of […]

Hello New Hat!

Introducing the New Hat Knit Kit!…. The Bobble is optional!

New Year News!

How knitters can help Australia, LAD news for 2020, and the Beckham’s are on the agenda in this weeks blog. It’s a bit of a mixed bag (but when David Beckham, Kangaroos and Chunky knits are in that bag, I am NOT complaining!)

LAD Gift Guide 2019

It’s that time again! Here’s the gift guide in case you want a spot of inspiration. From £6 stocking fillers to main gifts that’ll go down a storm, here’s our most popular ready made and diy products for presents…

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