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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…
Hello everyone, if you are interested in Shetland knitting and patterns I'm sure you will have seen the patterns which are raising money here in Shetland for an MRI scanner - the Harriets Hat and Harriets Headband designed by Harriet Middleton. At the moment if someone in Shetland needs an MRI scan we have to…
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