Tag: Scotland
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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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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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Concrete Legacies
We are anticipating the publication of Knitting Wester Ross today, and the team is ready (and waiting) in the KDD warehouse to begin the process of shipping the book out to club members, before putting it on general sale. This interim – between the completion of a book and its publication – is often a…
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Beinn Àirigh Charr
The clocks have gone forward and we have made it through the winter (feeble yay). All over rural Scotland, this seasonal transition is marked by the movement of cattle to summer pastures, a tradition which is inscribed in the landscape with the old names of many fields and hills. Ten minutes walk from my front…
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