These fingerless mitts are designed to keep hands warm on adventures and to show off a special yarn. They came about when I bought a braid of beautiful fibre, hand-dyed in Wales on locally produced fibre. I knew immediately that a robust yarn for long-lasting mittens was what I wanted, and happily neither the spun yarn nor the knitted mittens h...

These simple fingerless mittens are suitable for new knitters as well as more experienced knitters wanting a quick but effective pattern for keeping hands warm. Knit sideways with a simple thumb opening, this pattern does not require knitting in the round. If you can knit garter stitch, cast on and off, then you can make these.

Wilder Future is named after a campaign by the Wildlife Trusts in the UK, encouraging people to pay attention to the wildlife around them, to make space for nature and to campaign for greater protection of our environment. Using a simple slip stitch pattern, one “wild” coloured yarn- which could be a variegated yarn, a striping yarn or some han...

It’s ever so slightly embarrassing to think that the best thing I have ever knitted may be this little name badge, but judging by the comments and compliments at Edinburgh Yarn Festival recently it may just be true. I find name badges at places like yarn festivals so helpful for making connections with people I know from Ravelry and other onlin...

The first in a mini-collection of hat patterns, entitled In Celebration of Variation, designed to show off the colours in a beautifully variegated yarn without being overwhelmed by it. This pattern is worked in the wonderful moss stitch. Mosses are a fascinating and valuable category of plants, used at times as insulation, in wound dressing, as...

The Shepherdess is a crescent-shaped shawl worked in garter stitch stripes. It was originally designed to show off a long-striping yarn and the change of direction allows the shifting colours to play off against each other to great effect. The shawl is worked seamlessly in two parts: an asymmetric triangle, or boomerang, forms the first part; t...