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The Town of Alesund 20 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
After yesterday’s washout, today has been great!! The forecast was mixed, and that is the way the weather turned out. But by careful timing we missed the worst of the weather having a coffee! The fo...
Greetings from Norway! 19 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
I am going to pretend I wrote this last night…! Some of you may remember I went to the Faro Islands a couple of years ago with Andrew Morrison, of Andrew’s Adventures in Shetland. This year we are ....
Seadrift – a Pattern for a Relaxed Sweater 12 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Sometimes as a designer you come up with a stitch pattern which works! And you can use it in many ways. That is what happened with the one I have used for this sweater. I came up with it many years a...
My First Tour de Fleece 1 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
Those of you are neither on Ravelry (the social networking site for knitters) nor spinners will probably not have heard of the Tour de Fleece. It was started several years ago and the idea is to spin ...
Cataria Christening Set for a Boy 12 Jul 2013 | 02:34 pm
This started a long time ago. Folk on the ColourMart yahoo group were bemoaning the fact that there were no patterns for a Christening set suitable for a boy. I started on this one fairly soon after t...
Orkney Robe of Glory DK pattern released 5 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm
Those of you who have been with me some time (thank you!) will know about the Robe of Glory. The story as we know it is this. Back in 1981, Good Housekeeping released a pattern they called Blessings ...
Dressing a Shawl 27 Jun 2013 | 01:53 am
I’m just beginning to recover from ‘flu – hence the long silence – and my friend Jan Clarke asked me to reprint an article I did about dressing shawls for Yarn Forward many moons ago. It was the final...
Estonian Hearts and Flowers – Pi Shawls and Vest 7 Jun 2013 | 07:54 pm
As some of you know, I designed a pi shawl for the EZasPi yahoo group, with the idea of casting on on Pi Day – 14th March doesn’t mean much in the way the UK writes dates, but in the US it is 3.14! Se...
Bliss in Action 28 May 2013 | 01:20 pm
The story as far… Steve, Cathy and I made up the Bliss on the Friday night, and then each had a play. On the Saturday I played some more, trying all sorts of types of spinning – thin, thick, thicker; ...
A Wheel named Bliss 27 May 2013 | 08:59 pm
I must first declare an interest. I did not buy this wheel, I ‘won’ it from Woolmakers, who sell it! But that doesn’t alter the fact that this is one great little wheel. When I heard I had been lucky ...
