BLOGPOSTS

A quick summary of  my recent blogposts. If you would like to peruse some older posts, please click here.
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7th Jan 2021     Seeing Double: A new blogpost series on knitting with two ends of yarn

This is the first in a new series all about knitting with two or more ends of yarn held together. In this series, I will be looking at some of my patterns and will describe how the technique of using doubled-up yarns has enhanced their warmth and added extra design features. 

I will start next time by introducing the new winter version of my Lamberhurst Scarf which uses two ends of a sportweight yarn for extra warmth and softness. I will also be touching on the structure of wool and how the qualities can be enhanced by using doubled-up yarns. I will then go on to discuss other projects which owe their patterning and design to this technique.

​Please click here to read the introductory blogpost and to see a picture of our brand new grandson! We have yet to meet this little fellow but hope to do so soon.
30th Sept 2020     Introducing the 2020 Reversible Knitting Stitches E-book

Long-time readers to my blog will know that I am somewhat obsessed about reversible knitting stitches! I have been collecting and designing them for a bit longer than I care to mention! ​Then at the start of this year, I decided to challenge myself to see if we could add 20 more stitches to our Reversible Knitting Stitches E-book in 2020. Anna joined in and between us we topped that by a long way, adding more than 50 stitches to add to the collection! 

So we are delighted to now be able to introduce the brand-new edition: Reversible Knitting Stitches – A Sourcebook of 250 Double-Sided Stitch Patterns.

Read more about the ​new edition here...
25th Sept 2020     Room for one more...

 Yay! The new edition of our Reversible Knitting Stitches E-book has now been published! You may recall that since January we have been adding new stitches to the book ready for a new expanded 2nd edition. So don't laugh, but can you guess what we were doing in the last few days before publishing this...?

Well, that would be adding one new stitch, two more versions of existing stitches and two more project examples! So the 2nd edition now has a total of 264 different stitches and 81 project examples! Read more in my latest blogpost here...
26th Aug 2020     New pattern – Kassiopi Scarf...

Capture the colours of the summer and carry them through into the cooler evenings ahead with this new scarf pattern. This is the Kassiopi Scarf and is named for the astonishingly beautiful island of Corfu, with colours reflecting the blue of the Mediterranean, the flowers on your balcony and the limes in your evening cocktail! The scarf features a wonderfully textured stitch pattern from our new Reversible Knitting Stitches E-book and the pattern includes 3 different sizes.

Read the full blogpost here,
​and for more details about this new pattern, please click here.
12th Aug 2020     In with the new, updating the old...

A quick update on the new edition of the E-book: Anna and I have been busy editing this and have just completed work to update every chart in the book! That was no small job, as you can imagine, but we are really pleased with the lovely crisp charts that are in the new edition which has just been published.

For more details, please read the blogpost here.