Fair Isle Knitting workshop
Fair Isle Knitting workshop for beginners and improvers: learn the basic skills, improve your techniques or knit, cut and finish a steek.
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July 10, 2024
Creating Colour Palettes workshop
Become more confident with your use of colour for textiles crafts such as knitting, crochet, weaving, embroidery, appliqué or patchwork.
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September 4, 2020
Fair Isle Knitting and Design – a brief guide
Fair Isle Knitting and Design is a comprehensive guide to stranded colourwork as practised by the knitters of Fair Isle and Shetland. It is for knitters who wish to learn or improve their stranded colourwork technique as well as those who would like to create their own patterns and colour combinations.
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July 21, 2020
Fair Isle Knitting and Design: an introduction
I'm excited to show you the cover of my book Fair Isle Knitting and Design. It is a comprehensive guide to stranded colourwork as practised by the knitters of Fair Isle and Shetland.
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May 13, 2020
Colour creative knitting workshop
Join me on Saturday 17 March for my Colour Creative knitting workshop. You will learn to develop a colour palette from an inspirational source and use it to create knitted swatches with slip stitch patterns.
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February 13, 2018
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Painterly shawl
Knit Now magazine has just been published the pattern for my Painterly shawl. It is a colourful asymmetric shawl. The colours and stitch patterns were inspired by brushstrokes in paintings by Van Gogh.
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October 24, 2017
Yarndale, a festival of colour
Let me show you some of the colourful delights at Yarndale, which I visited for the first time this weekend.
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October 4, 2016
The Fox with no name
The fox with no name was commissioned by a local library. They wanted a mascot featuring their logo, a foxes head.
March 30, 2016
The Mischa bag
The Knitter magazine has just published the pattern for my Mischa bag. Mischa features several slip stitch patterns in inky blues and earthy colours inspired by 1970s printed fabrics.
March 15, 2016
Double-knitting stocking stitch – a left-handed knitting tutorial
Double knitting creates a knitted fabric with two right sides. Find out how to work double knitted stocking stitch in this photo tutorial, for left-handed knitters.
September 8, 2015