textile maker
Hello everyone, like with my Roosty Hat I posted about recently sometimes when I feel a bit lost in my designing I go back to previous patterns and think about how I could use the motifs in another design. it takes some of the battles out of the project: I already like the colours and…
As soon as we got the new Natural Shetland Heritage yarn into my work I knew I wanted to make something with it, I had the idea to make yet another (this is my fourth!) variation of the Puffin Sweater by Kate Davies, its is such a great pattern and I knew it would work…
As promised in my last post, this is all about how I knit a body and sleeve on my machine in preparation for hand knitting a yoke. I have knit myself four yoke jumpers in this way: my puffin cardigan, heritage puffin, fair isle yoke and my birthday yoke and without blowing my own trumpet, I have…
So I have survived another Shetland Craft Fair! I have had a very busy weekend, and I'm very happy with how it went. This year they had the stalls spread out over two parts of Clickimin, the Main hall and the Bowls hall. (Clickimin is a Leisure Centre, hence the use of a indoor Bowls…
Hello! Thank you all for the lovely comments about my trip to Iceland, at the moment it seems a million miles away.. I am preparing for the Shetland Arts and Craft Associations annual Christmas Craft Fair. This involves a lot of knitting. Since I work pretty much full time my knitting is resigned to evenings…
hello folks, so I have had a busy couple of weeks, thank you all for your lovely comments about my birthday yoke, on here and on instagram. its much appreciated as always. I had such a bad cold on my birthday that I had to leave work after an hour so only a few saw…
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