A new and rather striking housey project is on its way. I'm very excited about this one. More designing of stranded motifs: happy days. Here's a quick and sneaky glance at a preliminary sketch of part of it. You'll be the first to know when it hits the needles. Meanwhile, we all trooped over to Hay-On-Wye the other week, for the literary festival. It's a happy pilgrimage that we make most years. For those who've never had the pleasure, Hay is a hilly, sheepy, rainy Welsh town of 1900 Continue Reading
Designing Stranded Motifs… Is Actually Rather Easy
The only difficult things in knitting are the techniques you haven't tried yet. When I was a beginner, I looked at all that beautiful knitted colourwork out there - fairisle, especially - and I thought, 'Well obviously, I could never do that'. And so I couldn't, right up to the moment when I picked up my needles and tried. Because let's face it, less competent people than us have produced truly beautiful work. And once I'd mastered stranded work (of which fairisle is an example), I got Continue Reading