Have you noticed how many things are in the shops that feature a knitted pattern or texture? Or am I just finely tuned to knit-spotting?

I talked about the yarnish candles, knitted tissue box and knitted mug in my post Yarn to Burn already…now I seem to be seeing knitting everywhere.

In the comments to that post, BatOutOfHell told us about the knitted vases in Debenhams…

There were two … small one and large one (both in the sale at the moment!!)
I couldn’t resist…

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They look terrific in the freshly decorated snug.

Lovely detail on these…

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And then I was in Waitrose and noticed their mince pies and Christmas puds…

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Since when was cabled knitting Christmassy? I do like it though!
My last knit spot was when I was searching for a new dining room table and chairs. My old pine table was old enough to vote and to have been to university and falling apart.

I spotted an add on the TV. It was a chair. It was knitted. The cover to the seat pad? No…

What do you think of this beauty?

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They are “High back Grass Chairs” from Oak Furniture Land.

I think they are actually woven and not knitted but that looks astonishingly like stocking stitch to my eyes.

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Although I loved the knitterliness of these chairs, I couldn’t buy them. My main reservation was that that texture is very similar to a cat scratching post. Kitty LOVES her scratching post and is very well behaved, strops her claws  regularly on her post and doesn’t attack the furniture. I could see myself setting up for some huge “cat damage” problems if I bought these! And they were a teeny bit rough and might catch clothes…and Ben said he really didn’t like them and…and…OK ..I accepted they weren’t going to work and  started looking at other chair about then!

This is what we bought, from Oak Furniture Land so the “marketing at knitting fanatics” tactic clearly worked

….still attracting some suitably respectful cat-attention though!

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It’s a lovely solid table with two leaves that make it huge – big enough for sewing up the larges of knits and the squares in the back of the chairs pick up the glass panels in our doors beautifully 😀

So have you done any Knit-Spotting? Seen any stylish knitted homewares?  Let me know!