Ewe & Ply

Ewe & Ply Purveyors of quality yarns and notions. 11 English Walls, Oswestry, SY11 2PA. We continue to keep to previous Covid safety measures. Welcome back :D

We are keeping our masks on and respectfully request you do the same if you can, and keep numbers in the shop to 3 at any time. Private appointments available on request and suitable arrangements being possible. Click and Collect service and online sales continue. Please keep an eye on covid advice in case of future restrictions.

Happy Fair Isle Friday! Teri has been working on this vintage pullover for a while now. It's nearing completion and has...
12/06/2026

Happy Fair Isle Friday! Teri has been working on this vintage pullover for a while now. It's nearing completion and has been an absolute joy to knit with fabulous Shetland wool. This will be available as a kit and separate pattern with our notes and colour chart shortly. A happy colourful knit on a less than bright day! Stay dry folks! 😉

It's Thursday and the shops are shut so what Are Ewe & Ply up to? After a morning of admin, Becca is prepping for the Sa...
11/06/2026

It's Thursday and the shops are shut so what Are Ewe & Ply up to? After a morning of admin, Becca is prepping for the Sashiko-Sewicals and Teri is putting some new glow-the-dark stitch markers together. On a rainy afternoon when the wool is outside drying wetter, what better way to catch up!

Good morning Shrewsbury from The Parade Shops!The weather is decidedly mixed today, and Becca is wishing she’d brought a...
09/06/2026

Good morning Shrewsbury from The Parade Shops!

The weather is decidedly mixed today, and Becca is wishing she’d brought along a bigger cardigan, but the weekend promises fair, so maybe there’ll be some dressmaking with holidays in mind…

New in for summer knitting … Crazy Cotton 4 Ply from Teri and Becca both knitted Everyday Attitude tees (designed by )...
03/06/2026

New in for summer knitting … Crazy Cotton 4 Ply from

Teri and Becca both knitted Everyday Attitude tees (designed by ) using this yarn last year, and are so tempted to do that again.

There are a few additional colours this year, more choice and more temptation :)

On the website and in Oswestry right now, and hitting the shelves in Shrewsbury on Friday morning.

Rant Warning! Apologies to anyone attempting to contact us by telephone for the last TWO weeks. Thanks to and their ina...
30/05/2026

Rant Warning! Apologies to anyone attempting to contact us by telephone for the last TWO weeks. Thanks to and their inability to Listen we have had no telephone. We had a perfectly working telephone line but an internet connection that tried our patience to breaking point. We Did Not want or need a new telephone but now we have one. Witness "progress" at work. Our second hand telephone given to us by a lovely customer when we opened in Oswestry in 2019 is One Piece of plastic that plugs into our router and sits sedately (and dustily) on a shelf behind the counter. It is happy to sit there and not get itself lost somewhere in the shop like our mobile phones are apt to do. At no time has a customer been upset or put out that we have had to "put them down" while we scurry off to look for something.
Now we have been forced to have (and pay for) something we don't want or need composed of TEN pieces of plastic with a battery containing metals of limited supply that may explode (because it can at random as illustrated by the recent tragedy near our Shrewsbury shop). TWO plugs which we have no plug sockets for and a box thingy that proclaims itself to be a link that is composed of goodness knows what finite and non-recyclable components. And don't even get me started about the packaging....
I am not going to go into the amount of time it has taken to try to figure out what was going wrong with our phone line and the vexation caused by their diversion of our phone calls to my personal mobile phone which was totally unexpected (apologies to whoever tried to call me because I couldn't figure out how to answer).
Right now I am considering changing back to our original supplier.
Yes, I am a Luddite but why replace something that works with something unnecessarily complicated? We have strong ethical principles and this is a contravention of them against our wishes.
So dear Reader, what shall we do?
Answers, please on a postcard because I may put all electrical devices in a box in the cellar and run away from them (cackling).

Please accept our apologies if you have been trying to get us on the phone for the last week or so.We had a change of on...
27/05/2026

Please accept our apologies if you have been trying to get us on the phone for the last week or so.

We had a change of online provider, and are having a hell of a job getting the landline re-connected.

BT are convinced they have fixed it, although how we have no idea as nothing has actually been done 🤷🏻‍♀️

Teri is trying to get this sorted. In the meantime we are pretty swift at responding to emails, so keep those coming.
Please note - we are Very Bad at responding to DMs via social media. Email is our favourite.

Keep your fingers crossed, we’ll get this sorted as quickly as we can.

To add to our Summer School workshops we have ….a Sashiko Sew-cial!There are two dates in each shop - Wednesday 8th July...
26/05/2026

To add to our Summer School workshops we have ….

a Sashiko Sew-cial!

There are two dates in each shop - Wednesday 8th July and 26th August in Oswestry and Thursday 9th July and 27th August in Shrewsbury.

Book via the website (put Sachiko Sew-cial in the search bar for speed) or through either shop.

Kits comprising pre-printed cloth, thread, needles and a thimble are available as an extra should you require them.

21/05/2026

Shrewsbury may be tidy tomorrow.....
Moving and shaking!

Who's up for Summer School?Carry on learning in easy, breezy, no fixed agenda 2 hour sessions.Created with beginners an...
21/05/2026

Who's up for Summer School?

Carry on learning in easy, breezy, no fixed agenda 2 hour sessions.
Created with beginners and early improvers in mind, these sessions are there for you to learn what you need to in order to get started, and to keep going.

We have Summer School for Knitting and for Crochet, and the sessions are all listed (and bookable) on the website, and you can book through the shops as well.

New in!We have copies of the gorgeous new Workwear book from !A really lovely publication, full of inspiration and idea...
18/05/2026

New in!

We have copies of the gorgeous new Workwear book from !

A really lovely publication, full of inspiration and ideas for using the paper patterns included in the book to create a really useful set of everyday clothes. There is an accompanying (bought separately) set of labels to sew into your completed garments.

The patterns are for a chore jacket, a blazer, shirt/dress, drawstring trousers and a mail bag.

Designed to be modified and adapted for personal taste, these are patterns meant to create staple garments that you will wear and wear and wear.

In both shops and on the website!

Address

11 English Walls
Oswestry
SY112PA

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+441691587467

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