Tag: cowl
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Brèid
Following on from yesterday’s missive about my Òran Eile / Another Song design, here’s a pattern closely related to it: Brèid: Brèid (pronounced like beige, with a rolled ‘r’ in it) is a Scottish Gaelic word for a kerchief. In Gaelic, brèid is a term applied to many different kinds of cloth or flappy things…
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out of the woods
Outi Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces
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hazelhurst
So, I am imagining that some of you won’t have heard of Ronnie Hazelhurst – the meister of British light entertainment who has given his name to my new design? Tom and I are both children of the 1970s, and, for better or worse, the tunes of Ronnie Hazelhurst have featured largely in our lives.…
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Funchal Moebius
Here is my Funchal-inspired design! Like the ‘dragons-tooth’ pavements I saw in Madeira (thanks for the info, knitlass), the Funchal Moebius uses a high-contrast OXO motif with strong diagonals. One side is dark-on-light: and the other is light-on-dark. The design begins life as a provisionally cast-on tube . . . . . . which is…