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Hello, yes i am still here.. despite the best-laid plans I hardly posted last year. Somehow as I get older my voice is quieter, I don't have much to say sometimes! photo taken in Lerwick on the shortest day 21/12/22 We are beginning to see slightly longer days, thank goodness. I don't think unless you…
Hello everyone, today I'm sharing my design in the newest Shetland Wool Week Annual, the Sunbeam Dog Coat: I was asked to design a dog coat, it's not something I probably would ever have designed being (sadly) a non-dog owner. For something that's quite a simple shape it took me a good few weeks of…
Hello, I'm currently working on a project and although I am in the beginning stages I thought it might be interesting to document so I can work through my process and give some background to my thinking. I'm sure everyone who ever reads here knows or is aware of what a Hap is - a…
hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying your festive season, however you spend it! I have had a quiet time so far, as I'm sure most of us are still - thanks to covid! I haven't been doing much knitting, much of anything to be honest - it has been so dark here in shetland,…
hello everyone, now the Shetland Wool Week 2021 Annual is available and making its way to people I thought I'd do a post about my Roosty Tank Top design. photographed by Susan Molloy and Modelled by Roseanne (who was in my class at school.. #shetland) I always struggle with trying to explain my design process,…
Hello.. I am still here..I dont know about you but this past nearly two years have sucked alot of my creativity from me. I have hardly knit anything for months, the urge has gone. It will come back, I hope. I thought the older i got the more sure of myself I would become -…
Hello everyone, today I thought I'd go a bit into my new design that's featured (on the cover no less) in the 2020 Wool Week Annual, the Radiant Star Cowl: Now we all know I am a knitwear collector - I mean you could call it a hoarder but no judgment here.. and one of…
Hello everyone, sorry for posting a couple of times then disappearing again. It's still such a weird time, in lots of ways things are getting back to normal and then not at all in lots of other ways... it's hard - as I'm sure it is for all of you to know how to feel…
Hello everyone, thank you so much for all the lovely comments on my last post. Sometimes I feel (especially at the moment) very lonely and it was a lovely reminder how many of you are there and interested in what I'm up to.. I've managed to finish two more tops since I last posted -…
Hello everyone, how are you all? sorry for my radio silence over the past while - life has been happening and then, of course, recently coronavirus has totally changed everyone's lives. I'm still able to be at work a few mornings a week and do some work from home, understandably wool and knitting seem to…
