couched X’s and embroidered barnacles
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Henty-Creer
how the dark waters of Loch Striven inspired a Secret Coast design
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Green Shoots mittens
A jolly design for January
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Gitchi-Gami
Virginia Sattler-Reimer takes us to her place
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Colour Moves is published!
I want to thank everyone for your comments on yesterday’s post. Reading them, I was struck very strongly by the feeling of our all facing exactly the same pressing issue in our disparate regions in the world – an unusual sense of connection, but not one to be ignored. Today’s is an ‘announcement’ kind of…
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mittens for the absent-minded
When you were a kid, did you wear your mittens and gloves on bands or strings threaded through your coat sleeves to keep them safe? I did, and have very vivid recollections of disliking the practice as I grew older, for seeming childish. My grandma knitted all my gloves and mittens, and if keeping them…
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haresd
Today’s Warm Hands pattern is by . . . me! Meet the Haresd mittens. This project is much more about lending a platform to other designers than it is my own design work. As editor, I waited until the commissioning process was complete, then thought about what might be useful for me to add to…
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1994
Who hasn’t, at some point, lost their mittens? And which knitter has not wanted to recreate a piece of knitwear based on the evocative memory of something they once wore as a child? Recollections of her favourite pair of childhood mittens motivated today’s designer, Rebecca Tsai, to create her pattern for Warm Hands, which she’s…
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you must believe in spring
Today’s pattern has its own animation! One of the joys of developing a collection like Warm Hands is discovering the work of talented new designers. Today’s wonderfully jolly mittens – featuring stranded colourwork, cosy folded hem, and flower-topped hands and thumbs – are the work of first-time designer, Matissa Hollister. Here’s Matissa to tell you…
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pink fish
Last year, energetic and inspiring Dorothy Widmann kindly invited me to attend a wonderful event she’d organised in her home town of Cordova, Alaska. Like Scotland, Alaska is one of those places where the activities of fishing and knitting are interestingly intertwined, and Dotty’s Cordova Gansey Project provided occasion for exploring those important connections. The…
Read MoreTwo new patterns for the Seven Skeins club
Today I’ve released a pair of patterns for Seven Skeins Club members – both rather different from each other. Kokkeluri is above, and Cochal is below. Cochal is a Scottish Gaelic word for hood, and this simple to knit accessory can easily be pulled up, hood-like, to keep the cold off your neck and ears…
Read MoreJazz Hands are here!
Good Morning! We have released the Jazz Hands pattern! Skein Queen has also been very busy preparing yarn bundles for these mittens. The yarn – Voluptuous Skinny – is a lovely plump, woolly 4 ply. It is spun up by John Arbon, and composed of 80% Exmoor Blue and 20% organic merino. The yarn is…
Read Morejazz hands!
We have had quite a bit of weather here recently – mittens are definitely required! So I whipped up a pair. You may recall, in the comments on this post, Trish suggested that a pair of mittens in the Epistrophy pattern would suit the name Jazz Hands. Well, Trish, your wish is my command. Here…
Read Morepeerie flooers mittens
Gloves and mittens really are bloody tricky to model successfully. As soon as you stick a pair of hands inside them the trouble begins. You have to give the hands something to do, and this is difficult to accomplish without insane artifice. The leaf-throwing you have seen, but I also tried other strategies this morning,…
Read Morephotoshoot fail #343
I managed to throw some dirt and twigs on my head. That is all.
Read Moreharvest
At last! The mittens are complete! After the testing time they gave me, I am in the end very happy with the finished result. I worked them at a tighter gauge than the peerie flooers hat – the fabric is dense and velvety. Here are the cuffs . . which are cosily lined . .…
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KDD & Co 