Join our Crochet-Along for our fabulous Boho Beach Bag made using overlay mosaic crochet techniques.

The cowl is a companion piece to our Elegy to Morfa jumper design. Just Grillin’ was the name we gave the first prototypes of the jumper pattern as the slip-stitch pattern was reminiscent of a barbeque almost ready to start grilling and neckwarmers are perfect for UK summer bbqs!

With the loss of blast furnace ironmaking, it was clear that the coke ovens, where coal is processed into coke, would also close. Morfa coke ovens in Port Talbot closed earlier than expected on 20th March 2024. As we watched footage of the final coke push, Ruth commented that coke ovens have a similar grid structure and colour palette to our fi...

Our Wonderwool design for 2024 was initially going to be called Just Grillin’ (like it’s companion cowl pattern) but then Tata Steel announced the closure of the blast furnaces at Port Talbot Steelworks in South Wales. As co-owner of Ruth at Ammonite Yarns worked there for several years, the announcement struck close to home.

The “Fragmented” Pythagorean blanket was created for Yarndale 2021. We chose the name Pythagorean as we

Like our Caernarfon Cushion which launched at Wonderwool Wales in 2022, the inspiration for our 2023 design also comes from traditional Welsh blankets, but this time refined back to a simple graphic design

New for Wonderwool 2022, this knitted skirt has a ridge and furrow pattern reminiscent of the ripples seen on the sand at low tide at Dunraven Bay, our favourite local beach, known to Dr Who fans as Bad Wolf Bay.

Designed for Wonderwool 2022, inspiration for this cushion came from woven Welsh blankets. There are a range of traditional designs and we liked the Caernarfon as it translates so well to knitting.

This design was created for Yarndale 2021. It is based on a much bigger and more complex blanket called Tessellated Tiles. This version is smaller, more manageable design. Squares are made in the round and then sewn together with edge triangles and the edging added last. We chose the name Pythagorean because we found that designing a blanket ma...

Designed for Ammonite Yarns by Giselle Warren, the designer of ‘From Sea to Land ’ crochet blanket.

This pattern began as a motorway journey knit making up a scarf for the middle child (blue scarf in pictures) way back in 2014. I have intended to create the pattern ever since! The original was in Bergere de France DK but this one is made in King Cole Forest re-cycled aran (although any aran weight yarn will do it). Tension isn’t over-importan...

This pattern was designed for a steeking workshop. Tension is not amazingly important and it can be knitted in dk instead but bear in mind that it will fit a larger mug if in thicker yarn. The mug pictured is 9.5cm tall with a circumference of 26cm.

From Sea to Land was designed by Giselle Davies Warren for a crochet retreat held in June 2019 at the hotel, Number 63, opposite Kensington Gardens in London.

When we opened our shop Ammonite Yarns, we looked around for a pattern for a knitted mascot. Nautie by Beth Skwarecki gave us inspiration and helped with joining techniques. Our version has surface stitch patterning and shaping to better reflect the ammonite fossils we find locally and the fibonacci spiral.

I knitted Prudence and Primrose as prototypes for Cows on Tour, a campaign by farmers in South Wales to promote farming in the UK. Cows on Tour asked Ammonite Yarns if we could provide knitted cows to use with school children and as promotional items. We couldn’t make the quantity needed so we designed Prudence, our prototype and asked the knit...

Launched at Wonderwool 2018, this triangular shawl is designed to make the most of one beautiful 100g skein of hand dyed sock yarn by pairing it with a complementary solid shade in a commercial yarn. It is called Caribbean because most of the test knitting was done on holiday on Grenada where the tropical sunshine really brought out the vibrant...