UPDATE November 2020 – POM POMs are back in stock! At last month’s yarn and craft market in Coburg, my husband Geoff was in charge of the pom-poms on my stall. By the end of the day he’d sold most of the pom-poms and acquired a bit of a fan club. Most…
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Help Name this Pattern – and Get a Free Copy!
I had a huge clean up of all my knitting stuff recently and I unearthed six “half-written” patterns and several WIPs. I have decided that these things needed to be sorted out by the end of the year so I I’ve been quite focused on getting the WIPs completed and the patterns…
A New Hat
Autumn is here and I have a lot of 8ply oddballs in my stash. What else to do but make a new fair isle beanie? I love bucket shaped beanies – they work so well on my bucket shaped head. Geoff also has a bucketesque noggin so when I design a new beanie I…
Too Hot for Alpacas
It’s 40 degrees Celsius here today (104 F). Naturally I had to go outside wearing a fair-isle alpaca and wool hat so I could bring you some rushed photos of another completed UFO. This is a prototype for a design that I just can’t give up on. It needs more work to get the…
Blocking Hats
Once upon a time I would knit a hat and just wear it – no washing, no blocking – nothing. Now I know better because blocking does wonders for any knitwear, especially where lace is concerned. Here are some pictures of my Dandelion Beret (available to download for free) before blocking… ……
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…