It's a Stitch Up

When I bought my wheel back in April 2009, although I ordered a range of fibres, I got hooked on spinning dyed merino top because of the amazing range of colours available. With hindsight this wasn’t the easiest thing to learn with – it has a tendency to make a wirey, compacted yarn, even after carding. It’s taken me a while, but now I’ve tried out everything in my fibre stash, with mixed results… Read full post…

I hinted about it last week and now I’m excited to be able to reveal the details…

Stitch and Bitch London - my fantastic local knitting group – are running a competition to give away five copies of my latest pattern, Aduki hat, and two grand prize winners will win some very special yarn to go with it. I have hand-dyed a wool and bamboo blend, ideal for the Aduki Hat, especially for the competition. Read full post…

I’ve been experimenting this week with Procion MX textile dyes. I put a few different yarns in a dye bath and I’m amazed at the colour variation from the same batch! The superwash merino sucked up the dye and is almost black in places, while the silk blend is pale and much bluer. Read full post…

A slouchy, garter stitch hat in an easy, two-colour stripe and slip-stitch pattern. Suitable for novice knitters familiar with knit and purl.

For a knit-blogger, I don’t often blog about what I’m actually knitting. I’ll do my best to address that! I’ve been quite productive so far in 2010, as well as knitting samples for new patterns I’ve finished a few things I really like.

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If you’re reading via RSS on a feed reader you’ll need to view this post on the website in order to see some of the charts properly.

Warning: This post is one for the geeks. I don’t mean yarn geeks or knitting geeks, I mean maths/computer/data geeks. If that’s not you, don’t say I didn’t warn you! Read full post…