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Creative Knitting
As a knitter, I’m somebody who likes to plan ahead. I knit numerous swatches; I try out new techniques and compare them with firm favourites; I take gauge measurements; I sketch and calculate. I knit...
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Exploring Mary Walker Phillips
Reading a book on creative knitting is one thing, but exploring it by knitting is something else altogether. In my previous post I spoke about Creative Knitting by Mary Walker Phillips. Since then, I...
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KNITSONIK Blog Tour – part 1
Welcome to the next stop of the KNITSONIK blog tour! I was very excited when my dear friend Felicity, also known as Felix, told me she wanted to write a Knitsonik Stranded Colourwork Source Book. We...
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KNITSONIK Blog Tour – part 2
Welcome to the second part of my interview with my dear friend Felix, who wants to create a knitting book that shows you how to turn everyday inspiration into gorgeous stranded colourwork. If you...
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Knit and Knot – Knotted Steek Tutorial
Yesterday I launched my new pattern: Tom of da Peathill; a fitted men’s cardigan in three sizes, inspired by the natural shades of Foula Wool it was designed for. As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog...
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Fashion Revolution – Who Made Your Clothes?
Tomorrow is Fashion Revolution Day. This day asks people to think about who made the clothes you are wearing. This question started to form in my head a few years ago, which is one of the reasons why I...
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A Mother’s Work
Some repair commissions are so much more than mending a hole or two. I recently completed a very special commission, which I would like to share with you. Bernadette sent me an email with a repair...
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My Timbertops Spinning Wheel
Around Wovember 2012 ago I was introduced to spinning by my comrade in wool Felicity ‘Felix’ Ford. I started off with a drop spindle, and soon got caught by the spinning bug. It was not long before I...
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Spinning to Knit with Norbury
One of the reasons I bought a spinning wheel, was to learn more about British rare sheep breeds and their wool and eventually to be able to spin yarns that will emphasise a particular breed’s wool...
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Knitting & Crochet Guild Commission
I’ve known fellow glove knitting enthusiast Angharad Thomas for a few years now. Apart from knitting beautiful gloves she also volunteers for the Knitting & Crochet Guild as their Textiles...
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Knitting & Crochet Guild Commission – Conclusion
A few weeks ago I started working on a Visible Mending commission from the Knitting & Crochet Guild. Avid readers of my blog might remember the horror of this sleeve: A sorry sleeve in desperate...
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Mending Books
This is not a blog post about mending books, but a post about some of my favourite books about mending. A small selection of my mending library I frequently get questions about where I’ve learnt my...
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Wool Types; or, What I Learnt About Spinning
Last weekend I spent two wonderful days with Deb Robson at her Wool Types workshop at Fibre East. Deb wrote the Fleece & Fiber Source Book together with Carol Eskarius, which is a compendium of...
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A Visit to the Fries Museum – Part the First
When the textile conservator of the Fries Museum in The Netherlands, Gieneke Arnolli, invited me earlier this year to visit their archives, I just couldn’t wait for my next trip to my home country. Her...
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A Visit to the Fries Museum – Part the Second
Today I would like to share some more from my visit to the Fries Museum. This was the first time I got to see darning samplers in real life; after reading about them, and seeing pictures of them on the...
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A Visit to the Fries Museum – Part the Third and Conclusion
A few weeks ago I visited the Fries Museum archives, and their textile conservator Gieneke Arnolli shared with me many beautiful textiles related to mending and repairing. It was the first time I saw...
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Kaffe Fassett at the American Museum
I’m a reluctant fan of Kaffe Fassett‘s work; my appreciation for his sense of colour has come to me only a couple of years ago. Partly this stems from my slight colour blindness, which can make working...
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A Repair Dialogue; or, how to repair a pair of tatty tea towels?
I have a drawer full of tea towels. Some of them are new, some of them are special, and some of them have seen better days. Two tatty tea towels Always on the look-out for new mending projects, I’m...
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Crofters Mittens Pattern; plus, a tubular cast-on tutorial
When Magnus from Foula Wool asked me last year to design a pattern for a men’s cardigan using his Foula Wool, I did not only delight in all the natural colours it comes in, but also by its texture....
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A Better Course in Knitting –“Het Breien in Betere Banen”
When I visited the Fries Museum earlier this year, their textile conservator, Gieneke Arnolli, showed me an old Dutch knitting book that I just couldn’t get out of my head. I felt it would be an...
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