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Offbeat
TweetTweet This week I’m launching my latest independent design: Offbeat. It’s a set of two different choices of hat style with mitts to match. The stranded colourwork features a bold, geometric motif...
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Sonia
TweetTweet Mini-skeins are the (nearly) guilt-free treat of yarn festivals like this weekend’s Yarndale. You can use the last few pounds of your stash budget and the last few corners of your bag to...
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An Owlet for M
TweetTweet Oh, the joys of knitting for beloved children! If only I had that joy with my two kiddos. Sadly, while fate has seen fit to bless me with two great little potential knitwear models, the...
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Sand in my knitting bag
TweetTweetI bet you all do it. Plan for weeks before your holiday exactly which projects to take, including some suitable car knitting. Debate about how many additional balls of wool you’ll need to...
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Mother’s Day- best of the North West
TweetTweetPlease don’t run away, people who aren’t parents! I promise this is not going to be a sickly post about the cute stuff my kids gave me for Mother’s Day. I realise that it’s of little interest...
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You can’t win ‘em all…
TweetTweetKnitting. So calming. I’m sure I’ve read of research showing how it combats anxiety, depression and stress. My personal experience certainly (usually) backs this up. And yet… Here are two...
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Deco cardigan- worth the wait
TweetTweetAt last- a finished object to share with you! Since the triumph of my Sochi Socks, too many projects on the needles- commissions, swatches and knits-for-pleasure- meant that I felt I was...
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Covet
TweetTweet I’m in a covetous mood. I decided to share what my beady eyes are on at the moment. First of all this yarn bowl from Jenny Blasen Pottery. Simple, elegant, pretty and in a shade of blue I...
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EZ BSJ
TweetTweetMaking an Elizabeth Zimmerman knit feels like something of a rite of passage. Since sources including Ravelry alerted me to the existence of ‘EZ’s’ seminal works on knitting I’d got as far as...
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Buttons
TweetTweet I’m currently nurturing a burgeoning addiction to buttons. It’s not like it’s bad for my health, unless I try to eat them (although some of the pretty, coloured, shiny ones do can look...
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Article 7
TweetTweetI feel like I’m stepping into a room where you can write your name in the dust on every surface. Okay, it’s not been that long, but it feels like ‘Write blog’ has been staring accusingly from...
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Spirograph
TweetTweetIt’s not often that a design springs into your head, fully formed and ready to go. For me, its usually more a case of dreaming up the general gist, then refining with swatches, sketches and...
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Woolfest 2012
TweetTweetOkay, okay, better late than never with this one. It’s been a wee while since the wonderland of sheepiness that is Woolfest packed up for another year and here’s me only just getting around...
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