27th Nov 2020
#badassfriday2020
An English woman, and Irish woman and a Scottish woman walk into a yarn shop ...Awh, Black Friday. The biggest shopping day in the Western World. What business doesn’t want to have a little bit of t…
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23rd Jul 2020
My Comfort Blanket
Right at the beginning of lock down, I sat down to knit socks on a Sunday but I could not settle to them. I wasn't enjoying the yarn I was knitting with but that wasn't the problem, I've knit th…
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29th Apr 2020
A new pattern in Cashmere Lace!
I am beyond thrilled to share the latest design from Bronagh Miskelly (regular lace design contributor for The Knitter and Knitting magazine!) in a skein of our Cashmere lace! Into the Woods…
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28th Apr 2020
March 2020 Projects in our yarns!
One of the nicest things that happens after you have been dyeing for a while is that people start to post projects on Ravelry with your yarns. These are some of the projects that have appeared to…
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27th Mar 2020
10 Things to do with Yarn
As someone without small people I find the rule ‘Never tell parents how to parent’ a very solid rule to live by but I thought perhaps, since so many folk are homeschooling at the moment, I would share…
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27th Mar 2020
Signpost: Simply the Simplest Shawls
This is a bit of a Signpost post! I can see different search terms used on the site and a lot of folk are searching for Simply the Simplest Shawls but of course it’s on Ravelry! Hopefully this post wi…
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16th Mar 2020
Mini-Series: My first sweater pattern design, part 5
I don’t want to post without talking about covid-19. We live in a time for which there aren’t really any adequate words. I find myself listening to rolling 24 hour news which is not good f…
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15th Mar 2020
Operation Social Justice
It has given me great pleasure over the last number of months to see how much more representative the yarn community has become of people of colour and other minority groups. There is a long way to go…
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5th Mar 2020
Ravelry Round up: March 2020
We have been a little bit shy here on the blog recently! Getting our Simply the Simplest Shawls book onto Ravelry took quite a bit more time than originally planned. To celebrate finally getting…
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14th Feb 2020
Mini-Series: My first sweater pattern design, part 4
This post is quite ragged around the edges because there has been quite a bit going on here over the last couple of weeks. I will summarise all the steps, tips etc into a tidy post at the end…
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30th Jan 2020
Mini-Series: My first sweater pattern design, part 3
I’m not entirely sure where to start so I’ll tell you where I am and then how I got there! I’m now half way through the knitting of Section 4 and have just rewritten Section 4 so I’ll be doing some fr…
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23rd Jan 2020
Mini-Series: My first sweater pattern design, part 2
Welcome to post 2 in the ‘My first sweater pattern design’ mini series. It’s been a week since I committed to getting to an initial design and all the details that go with it and I think I’ve do…
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