Tag: garter stitch

  • Skirt of Destiny

    Skirt of Destiny

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    It’s time to reveal the final pattern from Knitting Wester Ross: I’m still sad that I was ill at the point in the schedule when this particular design landed, but it’s better late than never. Club members will have already read my essay about Kay Matheson who, with three of her student friends on Christmas…

  • Possit

    Possit

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    garter stitch stripes and glorious colour!

  • 3 nbo

    3 nbo

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    In praise of the brilliantly simple 3 needle bind off

  • St Catherines

    St Catherines

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    In recent months, I’ve been enjoying developing a small collection of lighter knits in Milarrochy Tweed. I’ve just published the final design in this collection – St Catherines. I seem to be exploring dolman and batwing-esque sleeves a lot in my design work at the moment. With St Catherines, I wanted to design a really…

  • Ottar (hap)

    Ottar (hap)

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    I have been so inspired by Ottar (see yesterday’s post) that I decided to name my latest design for her – the Ottar hap. This is a hap I’ve had a notion to knit since I started working on The Book of Haps about eighteen months ago. As I researched Shetland hap construction, I became…

  • a spencer dress

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    It is a grey and murky day, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to show you my amazing Spencer dress! You’ll have probably seen that my Shetland friend, Ella, first scored one of these a few weeks ago in the Lerwick saleroom. She was then put in touch with Margaret Stuart, who originally designed…

  • Sontag

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    I have a design published in the new Rowan Magazine! It is a simple triangular shawl or “Sontag” knit up in three tasty shades of Rowan Fine Tweed. (shades Wensley, Bedale, and Dent) The garment is named after Henriette Sontag — a German singer, who brought this kind of shallow, front-crossing shawl to the attention…

  • rams and yowes

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    Hmmm . . . do I spy . . . some sheep? . . . . many sheep? . . . and many rams? 120 yowes and 48 rams?!! Yes! It’s the rams and yowes lap blanket! In case you were wondering, yowe means ewe in Shetland dialect and, just like the sheepheid design from…