Stylish and Fun Knitting Patterns
To round off the year I wanted a quick easy project that was a fun knit and would make a great gift. I decided on a hat quite quickly and as I love stranded colourwork and haven’t done any recently it seemed the perfect choice! A colourwork hat doesn’t really take that much time and […]
Ever since I made Tuinn Bheaga I’ve wanted to make another shawl like it. Last year I was too busy working on syncopated brioche but this year I knew this was my perfect project! It has everything I want in a winter shawl – thick, bouncy DK yarn so it’s warm and perfect for layering; […]
Last time I introduced you to Talamh and my Elemental mitts series. Today it’s the turn of the second pattern – Adhar or Air! When I started working on this pattern, the obvious way that struck me to represent air was with a lace pattern – letting the air in! This beautiful neutral yarn was […]
As you probably know, Eden Cottage Yarns Hayton 4ply is my absolute favourite yarn for fingerless mitts. Fingerless mitts are also one of my favourite things to design and knit – plus they’re perfect for filling little holes in my design schedule! Because of that I always keep several skeins in various colours in my […]
This was a pattern that grew out of another idea. The original plan had a couple of problems I couldn’t figure out but I love what it became! Driùchdan is an asymmetic shawl that emulates a top down triangular shawl. The wide lace edge is knit down one side with masses of lovely garter stitch, […]
Like last month, I’ve finished off another set! This set all had garter stitch columns that run up the opposite edge of each item. Simple but really effective! This is my perfect style of pattern – a little bit of something to keep it interesting and a lot of easy knitting in between. I’ve just […]
I don’t think there’s much more I can say about this rib pattern or this colourway having used them both so many times before but I’m still in love with both of them! When designing each part of the collection, they’ve all had different challenges. For the cowl it was just deciding the width of […]
I’m going to preface this by saying that there is no pattern support for the spreadsheet. If you follow the instructions on the spreadsheet you shouldn’t have any problems! Skip to the fifth paragraph to get straight to the instructions! When I’m designing a shawl I always work with a spreadsheet so I can measure […]
Way back in January, I was really excited when Claire of Cookston Crafts reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in working on a collaboration with her. Claire has some really beautiful yarns so I jumped at the chance! She suggested a two colour striped shawl and this idea just popped into […]
Sometimes I have a really good idea for a pattern before I make it, with all the details really fixed in my mind. At other times I need a project I can finish quickly and that doesn’t need too much yarn, but I have no ideas at all! Harpi falls into the latter category. I […]
