A’ Mhuir – The Sea
9 July 2020
Designing this shawl has brought back all sorts of memories of playing on various beaches as a child. St Cyrus was our nearest beach, with smooth sands for building castles,
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Loidhne – Lines
14 May 2020
This is the shawl I was knitting when the schools closed and the lockdown was announced. It carried me through the first couple of weeks was a really fun knit.
Flùran – Blossoming!
16 April 2020
I first had the idea for Flùran back in the middle of winter, when everything was dull and dark and dreary. It started with an idea for a leafy sock,
Solasta – Shining
19 March 2020
This cowl has been on my mind for months and I’m so glad to be sharing it with you at last! I had the idea around October last year for
Lùbach Socks – A Winding Path
20 February 2020
Back in October when I was knitting Buinne and Fearthainn which weren’t particularly portable projects, I picked out a skein of yarn from my stash and cast on a couple
Suainte – Entwined
23 January 2020
If you’ve been following me on Instagram over the last few weeks, you’ll have seen a lot of Suainte as I’ve been knitting away almost monogamously to get back on
Fearthainn – Rain
28 November 2019
Rain, rain, rain… That’s pretty much what it’s done for the last week here – it almost makes me want to go back to the colder frosty mornings! At this
Buinne – A Winding Current
31 October 2019
Buinne had a tricky start in life, it has to be said. Choosing the yarn was easy. I was looking around for a single ply yarn and I came across
Lùbach – Meandering To and Fro
10 October 2019
Lùbach wasn’t in my plans for this year. After Dealas my next pattern was supposed to be a Brioche cowl (as I told my newsletter subscribers). Things didn’t go to
Dealas – Committed
12 September 2019
It’s about time for a new fingerless mitts pattern, isn’t it? I’m now spending a lot of time standing around in the playground waiting for the bell to ring –
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Shoormil – Yardage Calculator
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
Notions About Notions
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