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S1 E2: A Great London Crawl with Rachel Brown
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- Make Joy Podcast
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- Aug 10, 2025
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Summary
Hello yarn lovers - I’m delighted to bring you this second episode of the podcast with very special guest, Rachel Brown . Rachel was more or less the first knitter I met when I moved to London and she became my BKFF in short order. Always a good sport, Rach is the knitter you want in your corner when you’re coming up with crazy ideas like creating a yarn crawl in London, or yarn road trip events, or just maybe an independent yarn show (ours was called Yarnporium!). After eight awesome years collaborating on Yarn in the City, Rachel and her family moved back to the States and we folded the business, but of course we’ve stayed in touch. Rachel was recently in London and we were able to have a catch up that took us from East London and Stratford to Richmond in the west (although you can trust two expats to debate whether or not Richmond actually still counts as part of London!). On this episode we chat through our various spots that we visited during the day including: * V&A East Storehouse * Wahaca Islington - their classic margarita recipe is one of the best Loop London - celebrating their 20th anniversary this year! * Liberty - where we saw the patchwork house by the Patchwork Collective which celebrates 150 years of Liberty (and also took a mini detour through Sostrene Grene ) * Knit With Me - one of London’s newest yarn shops, located in Richmond * before finishing the day with a G&T admiring the view from The Roebuck It felt weird for both of us to be chatting again podcast-style but we did chat about what we were working on. Rach is working up a cowl from the leftovers of the (latest) sweater she knit for me, which was the Polina Pullover by Teri Lutsak in G-uld yarn that was a kit from Loop. I‘m working on the Stripe Hype sweater by Veronica Lindberg but i…