peerie flooers

re-knitting

By: Kate Davies Designs January 31, 2021March 21, 2021

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reflections on repeat knitting

A happy Beltane to you! It being the time of buds and flowers and new growth, I have today released kits of what is probably my most Spring-like design. Yes, Peerie Flooers is a woolly hat, but this is Scotland and a hat always comes in useful, whatever the season. I think the linchpin of…

hat at Hermaness

By: Kate Davies Designs March 13, 2013March 13, 2013

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I’ve had a lot of queries about Peerie Flooers over the past few days, so here are a couple more photos of the particular hat in question. After being approached by the wardrobe folk involved with Shetland, I knitted up this new sample especially for the production. I remember knitting it over the May bank…

steeks 2: reinforcing and cutting

By: Kate Davies Designs April 29, 2012January 6, 2016

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In this post I’m going to show you my preferred method for reinforcing a steek before cutting. My favourite method is the crocheted steek. Other methods are available, and I’m definitely not saying that this one is the “best” or the most “valid” or anything — it is simply the method that I like, and…

peerie flooers mittens

By: Kate Davies Designs October 1, 2011

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Gloves and mittens really are bloody tricky to model successfully. As soon as you stick a pair of hands inside them the trouble begins. You have to give the hands something to do, and this is difficult to accomplish without insane artifice. The leaf-throwing you have seen, but I also tried other strategies this morning,…

mitten graveyard

By: Kate Davies Designs September 25, 2011September 25, 2011

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Welcome to the mitten graveyard – where bad mittens meet their end. A place of misplaced thumbs . . . . . . cuffs of varying dimensions . . . . . . endless ends . . . and the same pattern repeated usque ad nauseam Sometimes things get very nasty, and scissors are involved.…

colourwork and crown decreases

By: Kate Davies Designs September 13, 2011September 13, 2011

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I’ve been receiving several queries recently about how to read colourwork charts when shaping the crown of a hat, so I thought I’d write a quick post about it. A number of knitters seem to be making peerie flooers as their first colourwork project: so if this is you, and you find yourself bewildered by…

By: Kate Davies Designs August 30, 2011August 30, 2011

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I have surprised myself, and completed the pattern for the hat! Because I drafted everything up beforehand and was, in effect, my own test knitter, I was able to work from my own charts, tweaking everything as I went. After some careful graft yesterday, and a cool editorial eye this morning, it is now available…