Behold the Harlequilt Socks, in as highly saturated a combination of colours as Kaffe Fasett ever did conceive.
I am extremely happy with how these entrelac socks have turned out, but I am glad that they are finally complete.  I did feel the project started to drag on a bit after about the fifth entrelac row [...]

I am often reading on the forums of Ravelry crocheters bemoaning the bias in the fibre world that seemingly results in crochet being seen by some to be a lesser craft to knitting. To be honest, I haven’t noticed it that much myself, but as I have been told in reply ‘ah, but you [...]

Yes, yes, you wouldn’t think it if you saw me bobbing around now, but when I was younger (much younger) I used to have ballet lessons, and I studied dance at university. ‘Entrelacé‘ was variously purred, sometimes barked (depending on if that day’s teacher was a cat or a dog – she could be both [...]

Ooh, I am so very giddily excited to see my name and website address in print on a piece I wrote for the current Issue 22 of Yarn Forward, on sale from a couple of days ago (January 15th). It’s a two-page article on how to measure and make a pair of sock blockers to [...]

I thought I would take a few minutes today to answer a question that cropped up after my last blog post about working with Rowan bamboo tape and working out a way to join the yarns without having to weave the ends in after the event, namely, would the two ends pull apart if you [...]

I am trying to have a good think about what I can make with some Rowan Bamboo Tape yarn. I have a full skein weighing 50g, plus a few remnants which weigh just over 50g when combined, so the equivalent of two full skeins.
I have never worked with a tape or ribbon yarn before, [...]

I have been very much enjoying knitting the stranded colourwork rows of the Flossie Bear pattern once I assured myself that I can knit this technique without stress or literally  tying myself into knots, scared to knit alone in the room lest my boyfriend return sometime later to find me bound head to foot in [...]

I’ve never really given stranded knitting techniques much of my attention.  I do absolutely love the effect, but as I pursue knitting as a relaxing exercise I have often not given it much time as I have shied away from the thought of managing several colours, several balls of yarn, at once.  Debbie Orr (AKA [...]

This will be my last post for a little while now as I am going into hospital for a spell (though hopefully not too long) where I shall probably have say goodbye to my needles and the internet for a bit whilst I recover.
Knowing that I had this hospital stay approaching, I have been trying [...]

In my previous blog post I was in the process of experimenting with inserting pins through the vertical columns of beads on the fingerless mitts I have just finished knitting.  As I had written, the beaded skull and crossbones designs, as well as the surrounding knitting, were quite distorted and unattractive.  Perhaps I understated that [...]

I said goodbye to the 85% complete Edward’s Socks after finally coming to terms with the fact that I never had enough yarn to finish them.  I decided that the yarn needed to be re-purposed into something completely different, and so settled on a pair of fingerless mittens/arm-warmers, mostly because I already had the beads [...]

I have blocked a few things before. In fact, I block most things, from socks to cushion covers, just because I like them in their perfect flat form, but I have never used the process of blocking to fundamentally alter the structure and appearance of a piece of knitting beyond tidying and refining my [...]

Felting is an inexact science at the best of times. Add to that the fact that I cannot really crochet (I have tried to teach myself a few times, but I always forget how to do it as soon as I put the crochet hook down) and what emerged from my washing machine today [...]

Sock blockers are one of those items in a knitter’s arsenal that are totally unnecessary, yet still for many of us, quite desirable.  For me, it was not the item itself that had held an attraction, but their function.  I was not particularly bothered about owning some sock-shaped pieces of wood, no matter how beautifully [...]

Below is a picture of the chart of the stylised Christmas tree I designed to knit into Edward’s socks.  There are four sections to the chart; the set up round, the ‘branches’, the ‘tree trunk’ and the ‘ground’  The chart is worked across 12 stitches and can be adapted in height by altering the number [...]