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gorse / Glenan

By: KDD May 6, 2022May 6, 2022

design, knitting, landscape, patternsdesign, glenan, gorse, knitting, landscape, pattern, Scotland, spring, vest6 Comments

a jolly yellow vest, for Spring

journey of mind

By: KDD March 10, 2021March 21, 2021

design, health, mental health, My Placedepression, design, health, knitting, location, mental health, Mind, My Place, pattern, place41 Comments

Diana Niedobova writes frankly and courageously about her experience of depression, and her sense of place.

Oa my!

Kate’s favourite outdoor pullover gets an Oa-verhaul

zwiebelmuster

Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

YOLK!

Yes, I am standing in a frozen landscape dressed as a fried egg – what of it?

Cas

Eimear Earley introduces a gorgeous shawl inspired by the golden age of Irish art

Green Shoots mittens

By: KDD January 29, 2021March 21, 2021

colour, design, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, patternsdesign, foxglove, free download, Green Shoots Mittens, Green Shoots Tam, Milarrochy Tweed, mittens, pattern, stranded colourwork54 Comments

A jolly design for January

Friday is pattern reveal day, and I have a brand new sweater design to show you! I’m a huge fan of the arched Selbu motifs which are most often traditionally used on gloves and mittens and you’ll see the long-standing influence of these motifs on my design work in hats like Richard the Roundhead, or…

red shawl and yellow belt

By: KDD June 20, 2020June 20, 2020

weavingbelt, inkle weaving, loom, pattern, weaving, woven bands24 Comments

I imagine most of you were looking at the shawl I’m waving about in these pictures yesterday, but today I’m going to talk about the belt I’m wearing too. I wove this belt back at the start of the year, when I’d really got into pick-up weaving In fact, it was one of the first…

beamer

By: KDD June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

design, knittingbeamer, design, knitting, knitting pattern, Lace, pattern, shawl33 Comments

A shawl for midsummer! A shawl red as a June strawberry, light as an evening breeze! The name of the pattern is Beamer Now, in many parts of Scotland, Beamer is not a particular brand of car, but a word for blushing. To “take a beamer” means to blush – most usually with embarassment –…

rows 1, 5, 9 or 15

By: KDD May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

collaboration, design, knitting, Melcardigan, collaboration, design, knitting, Lace, pattern, pattern writing, swatching, yorlin26 Comments

There are things involved with developing and writing a knitting pattern which you rarely get to see. This is one of those things. Yorlin is knitted top down. This means you can work your cardigan to exactly the length that you’d like, so that it suits your body. The design features two lace panels, using…