Warwick Wool shop set to close.

**margaret** · 08-02-2019, 07:02 PM

The loss of this valued wool shop that I have relied on over the years is soon to close, really saddens me.
There just aren't may of these old fashioned, friendly and very helpful shops left.

https://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/new...town-1-8802641

**rebbonk** · 08-02-2019, 07:38 PM

I can't remember the last time I saw one.

Do people still knit? I always preferred jumpers knitted by my mum to the shop bought ones. Not only were they warmer, they lasted longer.

**Lex** · 08-02-2019, 07:41 PM

A real shame, and the district council doesn't seem to have helped matters.

**margaret** · 09-02-2019, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by rebbonk

I can't remember the last time I saw one.

Do people still knit? I always preferred jumpers knitted by my mum to the shop bought ones. Not only were they warmer, they lasted longer.

Knitting is probably not as widely popular as it used to be, though when I used to visit the wool shop there were usually several customers ahead of me waiting to be served, rarely I went in there and was first to be served.
I still knit when I get the chance, I have a jumper on the needles at the moment , and I also knitted a few poppies for St. Mary's Church in Warwick. They received all in all about 70,000 poppies. I didn't knit
near 1000, but I donated what I knitted. There is a craft club, including knitting in Leamington which I was thinking of joining, so I can meet some knitting ladies.

Thankfully, there is still a good shop in Leamington that sells wool and fabrics, which I use all the time if I am making curtains , etc. But I still think the wool shop in Warwick were the cat's whiskers.

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