Creating amazing appliqué designs is a lot easier than you may have believed! Whether you are adding letters, numbers, whole words, or motifs and symbols, this tutorial will help you transform your skills from “meh” to “amazing” with the applied i-cord technique!
My little boy loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and I’m planning to make him a jumper with a train motif on it. But before I knit it, I need some charts. So that’s what I’ve got for you today. Two free train knitting charts. Searching Google I was able to Read more…
I am pleased to announce that the Simon’s Jumper pattern has now been released and is available from my Ravelry shop. I’ve always wanted to knit my own Christmas jumper. Yet every year I’ve been too distracted by other knitting projects to do so. But when my little boy’s first Christmas was in Read more…
While writing up the Simon’s Jumper pattern one row was particularly difficult to articulate. This is the row where you transition from knitting flat, to knitting in the round. You’ve probably read the row a thousand times. And it still reads like gobbledygook. Sorry about that. In reality, it’s surprisingly Read more…
Free download for an 5-stitch tall alphabet and number set for colourwork, designed to go with our Simon’s Jumper design.
Free download for the blank chart for Simon’s Jumper, in the correct gauge, for you to design any pattern to add to the main jumper design.
I am pleased to announce that the test knit request for my next pattern release – Simon’s Jumper – has now been sent out.
The Sweet Dreams Shawl is possibly the design that mesmerises me the most. I started the shawl in September 2018 from inspiration of seeing these two hanks of yarn together – Night Wakes and Banana Sandwiches – I knew they were destined to be a large curly shawl. Based on Read more…
The previous episode of the Christmas Jumper saga finished with me not having the right sized needles for the sleeves. A jumper isn’t really a jumper without sleeves. It’s really more of a… vest. I ordered some 20cm long 4.5mm KnitPro Symphonie DPNs. They arrived nice and quickly and without Read more…
2018 will be my little boys first Christmas. I’ve never made myself a Christmas jumper, despite all the best hopes, but I was determined to make one for Simon. Using the Sweetpea Cardigan for inspiration I chose my yarn: Cascade 220. This is a wonderful worsted weight yarn that is Read more…