Welcome to our 'The Self Contained Knitter' collection
It's time for Dan to start a brand new season of his monthly garment knitting show. Every month join him as he shares with you his progress in his quest to knit a traditional gansey. Along the way he shares with you behind the scenes information about upcoming Bakery Bear productions. He also talks a lot about what motivates him to knit but also what motivates him generally.
This time join Dan as he:
Welcome to our P.O.P. Collection 2025.
We are rather excited to bring you a brand new season of Patron Exclusive Shows! Join us every month for our special show, broadcast live. You can though of course watch the show and all the previous Patron Exclusive Shows, whenever you like. Find all our Patron Exclusive Shows here https://bakerybears.com/pop/
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2025-01-26 15:12:22 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 'Bakery Bears Radio Show' Episode 118
After our festive break we are so excited to be back with a brand new year of Radio Shows. We begin today with a walk to the Post Office and a chat about television. We reminisce about the shows of our youth and discuss the benefits of choice. We ask the question can there sometimes be too much choice?
Join Kay & Dan as they:
Welcome to our ’Reviews’ collection.
We are so excited today to welcome back Knitability's wonderful editor, Jenn Keeler for the start of a regular series of reviews. Once a month until December, Jenn will join us for a review special. This year she starts with a yarn Advent she went the extra mile to acquire in 2024. Along the way she also lets you know her thoughts on the 'Yorkshire Blanket'. You can read our interview with the designer of this blanket here
2025-01-21 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to our P.O.P. Collection 2025.
We are rather excited to bring you a brand new season of Patron Exclusive Shows! Join us every month for our special show, broadcast live. You can though of course watch the show and all the previous Patron Exclusive Shows, whenever you like. Find all our Patron Exclusive Shows here https://bakerybears.com/pop/
Our first show of 2025 will be available ...
2025-01-21 10:49:19 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to The Bakery Bears Video Show featuring ‘My Perfect Socks’!
We are so excited to return with our second video show of the year! Dan has a new cast on he cant wait to share, Kay returns with more 'My Perfect Socks' and a new design is brewing which we cant wait to show you.
Join us in this episode for:
1. (1 min 16 secs) “Welcome”
Welcome to our 'Favourite Places to Knit - Revisited' collection
In this re-edited edition of an adventure we took you on in 2016, join us at Middleham Castle. This episode is the perfect prequel to 'The Rise & Fall of the Monasteries'. Middleham Castle lies in Yorkshire and it has fascinating links to two of Englands most important Kings. In this episode we explore the story of the last 'The Plantagenet' kings. Along the way we explore the castle and discover how t...
2025-01-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to our ’Intermediate Skills’ collection.
Ladders can be a real problem when we are knitting with 'Magic Loop'. In this brand new tutorial special Kay is here to share with you an ingenious trick to alleviate them completely.
Join Kay as she:
It's time for the very latest edition of our magazine, 'Knitability'!!
The new year is just over a week old and it's already time for a new issue of our magazine!! This is the perfect way to get the year started right. Hidden within our January edition are wonderful interviews, musical playlists, articles from across the world and so much more. Less talk, let's find out what awaits.
Join us in issue 53 for:
Welcome to our ’Yarn Reviews’ collection.
Kay is here with a brand new deep dive into 'Beaches & Birdsongs' 2024 Advent Yarn. Kay talks you through the colourway choices, lets you know everything she received in the advent calendar and lets you know her thoughts on value for money. Then Kay demonstrates how 'she' reorders yarn to show it off perfectly. Think of this as a tutorial hidden within a review.
Join Kay as she:
It’s the time of the year when we start to look forward to our next Valenvent!!
'Valenvent' is our first patron exclusive event of the year, running from the 1st to 14th February 2025 and available to Silver, Gold & Platinum Patrons. Each year Kay produces an exclusive design for you all to knit in the run up to Valentine's Day.
Historically we have kept the pattern a secret up until the 1st of February. But we all need something to lo...
2025-01-03 14:24:11 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to our brand new show, 'My Perfect Socks'!
In 2023 Kay brought you her most popular series ever. Over twelve episodes she shared with you 'My Favourite Blanket'. We are so excited to tell you that throughout 2024 she has been developing the sequel and today that show launches! Inspired by the Hollywood movies of the 1990's, join her over twelve episodes as she shares with you 'My Perfect Socks'
In each episode Kay will create a colourway inspired by one of...
2025-01-03 09:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to The Bakery Bears Video Show featuring ‘My Perfect Socks’!
The new year is upon us and what better way to get the year started in style than with a brand new 'Video Show'! We have lots of projects to show you, lots of news to share about 2025 and we reveal the first episode of Kay's sequel to 'My Favourite Blanket'!! And of course it's all here for you first, before it goes live to the world later on today!!
Join us in this episode for:
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2025-01-03 07:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the start of our 2025 Patron Exclusive Content. Today we continue our ’Sock Tutorials'.
Happy New Year everyone!! Today Kay is delighted to welcome you to a brand new year of exclusive content with a much requested tutorial special.
Join Kay as she:
Talks you through the eye of partridge heel make up
Demonstrates how to knit each row of the repeat
Shares with you some
2025-01-02 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to our 'The Self Contained Knitter' collection
Dan is delighted to join you for a special 'New Years Eve' special of 'The Self Contained Knitter'. Along the way he reflects on 2024 and looks forward to 2025, he shows progress on his garment projects and shares some 'New Years Eve' memories.
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We are so excited to return with the monthly content schedule for January!
Can you believe it, a new year is just around the corner. Whilst it is sad to say goodbye to our 'Advent Calendar' for another year, as one door closes another one opens! Yes, throughout this month we are back with our usual Patron Exclusive schedule with new content every Tuesday and Thursday.
Whilst our 'Advent Content' was published at 7am, throughout the rest of the year all our...
2024-12-31 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 'Bakery Bears Radio Show' Episode 117
We are so excited to return with a very special episode of the show! You may have seen our 'Winter Walk's' series which we debuted on the 13th of December in our 'Christmas Special' video show. This was a cross over show with our 'Radio Show'. When the cameras stopped rolling the mic's stayed on so join Dan and Kay for a very special walk in the Howardian Hills.
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2024-12-27 07:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to our ‘Top Five Yarns of the Year’ collection.
It's Boxing day everyone and we are delighted to return with our normal schedule of patron exclusive, brand new content. We start with perhaps Kay's most popular video of the year. If you are looking for inspiration, you have come to the right place. Kay is going to take you through her five favourite yarns from 2024.
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Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
This is it! The last day of the MKAL. My goodness it has been so much fun. There is still one wonderful thing left to do though. Join Kay as she shows you how to place your tin star and offers you alternatives on how many stars you might place!
Join Kay this morning as she:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
We can't quite believe it, but it is time for our final adventure of 2024! On the 6th of December we took you to Castle Howard for a tour, today we return to see the difference when it's decorated. This year the theme is 'Alice in Wonderland' and we cant wait to see how they depict it!
Join Dan & Kay this morning as they:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
Folks, thank you all so much for your messages and love of this year's epic 'Advent Calendar'. Whilst Christmas is approaching, there's still so much to see. Today Kay finishes off the 'Country Christmas Hat' and gets ready for its final flourish coming on Day 23!
Join Kay this morning as she:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
Today Dan returns with his final solo adventure of this year's 'Advent Calendar'. Can you believe it, as fast they started it's coming to an end, but we go out in style with a Victorian Church in the picturesque village of Slingsby.
Join Dan this morning as he:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
What a wonderful trip we had yesterday to Kirkham Abbey. Now it's time to get cosy again in front of the fire with Kay. Today she shows you how to fold the brim of your hat and lets you know how to knit the body. Then of course, it's time for more story.
Join Kay this morning as she:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
In today's festive adventure, Dan and Kay visit Kirkham Priory. This wonderful place is surrounded by gorgeous fir trees so it makes it the perfect seasonal setting for a little walk. Along the way we discover a fascinating link to D-Day and reveal its links to this year's 'England: A Castle Nation' series!
Join Dan & Kay this morning as they:
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2024-12-18 07:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
So we're off with our second cast on. Kay returns today with more 'Country Christmas Hat' knitting. She will show you how to add your 'Popcorn Garland' to the brim and let you know what to do before our next section.
Join Kay this morning as she:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
Today Dan returns with another of his famous church visits. Whilst this one is a little younger than the first church we visited on Day 8, it is still 12th century. What makes his destination today so special is this church has a fortified chancel. This is something Dan has never seen before and he cant wait to see it!
Join Dan this morning as he:
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2024-12-16 07:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
Folks, does it get anymore exciting than this? Yes, with one project completed, it's time to cast on something new! Today is back at our festive base camp to introduce you to the next festive pattern of the season.
Join Kay this morning as she:
Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
It is a tradition here at 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar' for us to have an annual taste test. We purchase festive treats which we have never tried before trying each one and crowning a winner! On Day 10 of this years calendar we bought our treats from the local farm shop, today we try them all!
Join Dan and Kay this morning as they:
Welcome to 'The Bakery Bears Video Show featuring Winter Walks’!
It's time for our final video show of the year and what a treat we have in store! As promised we are delighted to bring you 'Winter Walks' which will run every November. In this special episode join us for a walk in the Howardian Hills. That though is just the start of this seasonal special episode!
Join us for:
1. (1 min 16 secs) “Welcome”
Introduce t...
2024-12-13 07:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everyone and welcome back to 'The Bakery Bears Advent Calendar 2024'
It is time to finish our first festive pattern of 2024. Kay is back at our cosy 'Christmas Cottage' to show you how to finish off your 'Country Christmas Mitts' with a gorgeous tin star!
Join Kay this morning as she:
