Stylish and Fun Knitting Patterns
Meet Cranachan! I had so much trouble coming up with a name for this pattern. I kept thinking about clouds, but I wasn’t finding anything I liked as a name until one of my Patrons said it made her think of a whipped dessert! Cranachan is a Scottish pudding made with honey and cream (and […]
This design started when Becca of Bluebell Yarns contacted me and asked if I’d do a collaboration with her. She only works with yarns that have come from sheep in Britain or the Falkland Islands which I find absolutely fascinating! Becca sent me some samples of her yarns along with a skein of her 100% […]
This design started when Ishrat very kindly gifted me a skein of her Merino/Bamboo 4 ply yarn in a beautiful dark green. I knew right away I wanted to do something really special with it. The colour, of course, said leaves to me – I was still working on my Four Seasons of Socks collection […]
When I started it was just going to be a fingerless mitts pattern (Dromanach) first. I had some beautiful speckled yarn from Eden Cottage Yarns to work with and I needed something that would compliment the yarn without being hidden in the speckles and wouldn’t fight with the pattern. I can’t just knit a plain […]
Nathair-Sgiathach has taken 16 months from design to publishing – that’s probably the longest time I have ever worked on a design. I cast on way back in October 2019! Originally it was planned for release in 2020 but I rapidly realised that it was going to take me longer to knit that I’d originally […]
I’m delighted to be sharing Giuthas with you at last! This is the final sock in my Four Seasons of Socks collection and, in keeping with most of the other patterns, it has half a tree up the side of the foot which widens to a full tree up the leg! The name means pine […]
You might have noticed that things look a little different around here now! I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months working on this new site around all my other work, so I hope you like it! My previous website was on Squarespace. I originally set it up just as a gallery […]
I’m so excited to share Tuinn Bheaga with you at last! It’s been very popular on Instagram over the last couple of weeks so I hope you’re as happy to see it as I am to share it! There have, of course, been a few bumps along the way – designing is rarely plain sailing. […]
It’s definitely the start of sock weather season here in Scotland. There’s a distinct chill on our way to school in the mornings and I’m almost ready to break out the woolly hats and gloves! The trees are a patchwork of green and orange, leaves are starting to fall and my daughter found her first […]
I saw a post on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, about a knitter who had gone on a cruise and only realised once she was on the ship that her pattern needed a cable needle which wasn’t included on the notions list! I’m the sort of designer who lists everything needed down to the […]
