The National - Knitting expert takes on the world’s toughest row

By Lucy Garcia - The National

Abrams is the only solo female participant from the UK this year.

The race will begin in December 2025, but training and fundraising for the journey begins now.

Abrams will be raising funds for environmental action charity, The 2 Minute Foundation, and CHAS (Children’s Hospices Across Scotland).

Abrams founded Tribe Yarns, a curator of high-quality yarns from around the world, in 2018 in Richmond, London. However, after a prolonged recovery from Covid, she moved the business to the rural setting of Balcaskie Estate in the East Neuk of Fife.

Tribe Yarns is thriving in its new home with a global reach and has become a hub for knitters and other creatives who share Abrams’s passion for sustainable and vibrant slow fashion.

Abrams’s ocean boat has been named Knitannia in honour of her passion for the world of knitting.

Abrams said:

“I’m rowing the Atlantic because I want to do something hard. I want to know what I’m capable of. My yarn empire operates out of a newly renovated cowshed on the lovely Balcaskie Estate. I feel absolutely connected with the sea here – it’s within spitting distance for my mandatory swims and salty-strolls.

I am a fast-paced, thrill-seeking, sleep-is-for-the-dead kind of soul, who usually rests only when I’ve burnt myself out. And I want to celebrate my recovery from long Covid. I’m ready to shatter my mental and physical limits and take on this wild challenge head-on!”

Find out more and make donations at www.justonemorerow.org/donate

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