ravelry
-
Pattern Spotlight: Lattice Hat and Lattice Socks
The Lattice Hat and Lattice Socks celebrate the beauty of simple texture in knitting. Using slipped stitches to create a woven, basket-like effect, these patterns offer an easy yet elegant way to add depth and interest to your knits. Designed for mindful makers, they showcase how minimal techniques can produce richly tactile results — perfect…
-
Pattern Spotlight: Maple Leaf Hat
Inspiration In the Maple Leaf Hat every stitch begins with a story. Every autumn, the woods around us are set alight with colour. The green hills slowly shift into a tapestry of gold, russet, and crimson, as if the land itself is wrapped in its own knitted shawl. One tree in particular—the field maple—seems to…
-
Wooly Wednesday, even more yarn dyeing
Even more dyeing and more yarns coming with me to Sweater Weather in Farnham later this week! Have you got your tickets?
-
Wooly Wednesday – hats
Since moving to the smallholding I wear a lot of hats, literally and metaphorically!! I have a few favourites… My lattice hat, knitted up in a gorgeous sock weight alpaca yarn I bought on the Great London Yarn Crawl, my River Knits yarn hat, which is a gorgeous sock weight yarn and I knitted a…
-
Wooly Wednesday
This Wednesday I am going to look at a pattern or two from another source! I am currently knitting up the fabulous Arboreal sweater by Jenn Steingass (this link is in Ravelry, I am afraid there are no other links I could find where she sells the patterns outside Ravelry) I am knitting it up…
-
Wooly Wednesday
A little post about some new sweaters I have knit up for the boys! The Diplodocus sweaters!
-
New yarn!!!!!
So tomorrow the Rustic range of yarns launch!! All hand dyed by me here at the smallholding and all the wool for the yarn is either locally sourced or homegrown!! From our own Sheep!!!!! So that’s gorgeous fleece from Wanda, Baabara, Wolfy and the three witches!!!! This time the wool has been blended with a…
-
The first Makers Monday!!
So the crafting podcast is becoming weekly!! And on a Monday!! This will be a weekly round up of the crafting activities I get up to! This week’s round up can be found here
-
Crafty Catching Up!!
Well a fortnight has vanished since my last post!!! Well more than a fortnight!!! That’s what new babies manage to do…. and toddlers… they eat time!!! So…. now I’m a captive on the sofa with a post immunisation snuggler…. Where was I…. Wonderwool Purchases!!! Those of you that follow me over on Instagram will have…
-
More socks on the go!!
I have cast on another pair of vanilla socks!! Yes I seem to have a problem needing to have some vanilla socks on the needles at all times!! But it does seem to be all my poor sleep deprived brain can handle!! Look at this yarn!! It is Weavers Loft sock wool and I bought…