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By: Kate Davies Designs May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

collaboration, design, knitting, Melcardigan, collaboration, design, featured, knitting, Lace, pattern, pattern writing, swatching, yorlin26 Comments

There are things involved with developing and writing a knitting pattern which you rarely get to see. This is one of those things. Yorlin is knitted top down. This means you can work your cardigan to exactly the length that you’d like, so that it suits your body. The design features two lace panels, using…

Have you knit this pattern?

By: Kate Davies Designs March 8, 2016March 8, 2016

design, knitting, researchdesign, hap, knitting pattern, Patons, Patons & Baldwin, pattern writing, research, shawl, Shetland knitting91 Comments

Do you recognise this pattern? Did you knit it or do you know someone who did? You may know it as Patons 893, or 1085, or H283, or simply as the tree of life pattern (under which name it is still being sold today on eBay). Did you knit it, or receive it in its…

the grumbling hive

The title comes from Bernard Mandeville’s 1705 poem of the same name. Its only relevance here is that I have bees on the brain, and because, since I am feeling peaky (again) there’s been a bit of grumbling going on in this particular hive. Bees on the brain, you say? What’s that about, then? (landing…