Woolly greeting cards

Woolly greeting cards

Greetings to you!

Greeting card featuring detail of a mitred square throw on a wood background
Photo of a greeting card, showing detail of a throw worked in mitred squares using varigated yarns

Observant readers may have noticed a few changes to my website recently. The “Patterns” heading has changed to “Designs” and if you hover over this heading you can scroll down to look at patterns, kits or greeting cards.

I’ve made greeting cards for many years using stamps and collage and love these quick projects. But I have to admit, that I do not have much time to make cards these days. Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have some greeting cards featuring knit and crochet? Ta-dah! Here are my first five designs for greeting cards. I hope you like them!

Love and Hearts greeting card

Photo of Love and Hearts greetings card on a wooden background. Greetings card shows a Fair Isle design featuring hearts, flowers and the word love.

I designed “Love and Hearts” Fair Isle especially for a greeting card. It features some traditional Fair Isle motifs as well as the word “love”. I knitted it using Shetland Spindrift yarn from Jamieson’s of Shetland. This yarn is produced from the fleece of Shetland sheep, shorn, dyed and spun in Shetland. It is available in 240 colours; I just used three of them. The background is Natural White, one of the natural colours of Shetland sheep. The reds used are Crimson and Maroon. I really enjoyed designing and knitting this one, so others may follow!

Kairouan greeting card

Photo of Kairouan greetings card on a wooden background. Greetings card shows detail of a throw worked in mitred squares using varigated yarns.


The Kairouan greeting card features a hand-knit throw that I designed a few years ago. Paul Klee’s painting, ‘Before the Gates of Kairouan’, was the inspiration for my design. I love the combination of colours that he used and found the perfect colours in Tapestry, a variegated yarn, from Rowan Yarns. The colours in this yarn are muted and change gradually, echoing the mood of the painting. And the mitred squares are in keeping with so many of Paul Klee’s paintings.

Magic of the Circus greeting card

Photo of Magic of the Circus greetings card on a wooden background. Greetings card shows a knitted clutch bag: the flap features mitred hexagons and the main part has chevrons.


The Magic of the Circus greeting card features one of my designs for a hand-knit bag. The stripes and rings in agate samples, seen at the Natural History Museum in London, were the inspiration for my design. I tested out some ideas using modular techniques; the hexagons reminded me of circus tents. I think of circuses as being bright, vibrant places, so, I used a colourful variegated yarn from Noro (Silk Garden Sock).

Granny Stripes greeting card

Photo of Granny Stripes greetings card on a wooden background. Greetings card shows detail of some colourful crochet worked in granny stripes.


I teach various crochet classes at a local vintage and craft shop called Squirrel. I crocheted a length of Granny stripes to yarn bomb their shop sign to help publicise the classes. Simple, but jolly, and extremely eye-catching! I used many bright colours of Golf mercerised cotton from Lang Yarns.

Christmas Stocking greeting card

Photo of a greetings card on a wooden background. Greetings card shows a red felt Christmas stocking with cream crochet trim.


Ok, I’m a bit out of season here! I had my first batch of greeting cards printed in November. My knitting group and Squirrel bought most of them. The Christmas Stocking card features a red felt stocking, with crochet decorations. I worked the crochet using Quattro from Lang Yarns.

All these greeting cards are beautifully printed on thick 340 gram, sustainably sourced paper stock. There is a light satin coating on the outside; the inside is left uncoated, making it easier for you to write your own message. Each card comes with a white envelope, all in cellophane wrapping.

Tags: , ,