Tag: knitting
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A walk across the rooftops
Yes, it’s Friday, and it’s time for another release from Rip it Up and Start Again! I have a quick, small project for you today called A Walk Across the Rooftops A Walk Across the Rooftops represents a sort of refinement – and perhaps the final iteration – of a simple slipper style of which…
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Postcard
Good morning! It’s time for a new Rip it Up (and Start Again) release, and today’s design is called Postcard. Postcard is a contemporary gansey, that’s worked from the top down. While the front features a series of highly textured twisted stitch panels, the back is plain-sailing stockinette. The upper back is worked first, and…
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heid hunter & veedon fleece
Good morning! I have two accessory designs inspired by two very different classic albums for you today: Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece and Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters. Both albums were recorded in 1973 (which was also the year that I was born). Why these two albums? Let me explain. Five years ago I designed a hat…
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Gloamin’ Yorlin
Good morning, we have another lovely Yorlin, in a rather different hue, to inspire you today. Here’s Maylin, in her natural habitat on a Cumbrian fellside (by Angle Tarn), wearing her Gloamin’ Yorlin. Maylin says: “I don’t wear a lot of purple, but I chose the Gloamin’ shade of Milarrochy Tweed for my Yorlin as…
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Chingly Yorlin
Good morning! It’s time to show you another lovely Yorlin. This one has been knitted by KC, in Milarrochy Tweed shade “Chingly.” Chingly is an interesting shade, and one with which I’m slightly obsessed. We introduced it into the Milarrochy Tweed palette in 2023, and it is one of a handful of shades that we…
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Ooskit Yorlin
Good morning, and welcome back to the mill garden! Here I am to show you another Yorlin, which has been knitted in a rather different yarn to the Milarrochy Tweed Ardlui version I was wearing yesterday. This cardigan has been knitted in our Ooskit 4 ply. The yarn’s name is Ooskit “4 ply” to distinguish…
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Ardlui Yorlin
Good morning! Welcome to all knitters who are joining the Yorlin KAL! And a very warm welcome to all readers to my home, here in Kintyre. Today I’ll be showing you some of my garden, while introducing my brand new Ardlui Yorlin. If I had to pick one, single shade of Milarrochy Tweed from the…
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Yorlin KAL
It’s time to announce the KDD summer KAL! Will you join us and knit yourself a Yorlin? Knitted in 4ply (or equivalent) at a gauge of 28 stitches to 4 inches, Yorlin is a lightweight, airy cardigan. Knitted from the top down, Yorlin features raglan shaping through the upper body, twisted-stitch trims, and two beautiful…
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Knitting Bullshit
My theme today is Knitting Bullshit and before I begin, I had better explain to you what I understand bullshit to be. In what follows, “bullshit” is used very much in the sense that Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt describes in his seminal essay, On Bullshit (1986; 2005). For Frankfurt, bullshit is an utterance with “a…
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Knitting Wester Ross
The book is out, all pre-ordered copies have been shipped (thank you, Kate C and Kendall) and club members can access the full e-book in your Ravelry libraries. Knitting Wester Ross is now available to purchase in the KDD shop and by way of celebration, I thought I’d reproduce the book’s introduction here today. This…
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Skirt of Destiny
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…
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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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Another song / Òran eile
Good news this morning: our work is done and the Wester Ross book is away to the printers in Glasgow, which means we should be able to publish it around the middle of next month. I’m sure that in time, with the benefit of distance, I’ll be able to feel proud of this book –…
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