Yeah, ok. It’s a cheap joke – “stranded” as I’m “stranded in a sea of fair isle stitches”. It could be worse. I could have said something about being stranded and clutching at anything that “floats”. Lucky I can knit hey? So I’m having a real fair isle binge at the moment…
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And the winner is….
…MJ! Congratulations MJ. You have won a pattern and yarn kit to make your own Holgate Beanie. I will send you an email to get your colour choices and postal address. It was nice to get some comments and suggestions for tutorials. I also received about a billion spam messages which I naturally…
Holgate Beanie
Whenever I write a hat pattern I always knit it at least twice. I don’t want to be publishing patterns with errors in them if I can possibly help it. I always welcome feedback but would prefer people didn’t have to go to the trouble of letting me know that my products…
Knitting related injuries
Although a whole week off work to knit and bake and generally stuff around sounds very relaxing, it really is a hazardous way to spend time. Over the past four days I have been finishing some UFOs and working on a new fair isle hat design for the fella. Here is the…
Free Pattern – Flip Reversible Unisex Hat
I’m a big fan of unisex patterns and an even bigger fan of reversible stitches. As a result I’m pretty damn happy with this one – the Flip Reversible Beanie. I actually worked out the stitch pattern for a scarf. I wanted something a little bit lacy without looking like lace that…