Knitting and More

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Decreases on the knit side of the fabric; which one to use

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Right Leaning Decreases In my experience the decrease that most people learn first is the Knit 2 together (k2tog) decrease. It is a fair...
Monday, 22 July 2013

Is it ever too hot to knit?

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I have to say that after the last few weeks of hot weather there have been times when I did think it was too hot to knit. It doesn't hel...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Developing a Design Idea

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A couple of months ago I had a crop jumper design published in Knitting magazine. The cable pattern on the garment was developed from photog...
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Thursday, 7 March 2013

Circular Shawl Cardigan finished

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In the last post I talked about re-knitting my new version of the circular shawl cardigan that was published in Knitting magazine last year....
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Circular Shawl Cardi

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After a short diversion into cooking I'm back to my knitting again. Last year one of the designs I had published by Knitting Magazine wa...

The finished cake

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I did finish my cake a week ago on Monday in time for when the family came to visit. Here is the finished item. I did a chocolate bu...
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Sunday, 27 January 2013

Cake baking not knitting!!!

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I know it has been a long time since I posted anything. I did have lots of knitting things I was going to post about last year but never see...
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I have be working in various aspects of knitting since the mid 1980s. I teach both hand and machine knitting and design and write feature articles for a number of UK knitting magazines. I sell patterns of my own designs, some of which can be seen on my website and some on Ravelry. I run a knitting surgery and sell my patterns at a number of hand knitting exhibitions and also sell patterns at a couple of machine knititng exhibitions. I also demonstrate knitting techniques for both hand and machine knititng on Knit1 TV
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