Summer may be here, but for those days when there is still a hint of a chill in the air I wanted a colour filled way to keep warm. A poncho offers the prettiness of a shawl with the ease of wear of a sweater. I worked this poncho in passages of different colour and different stitches to add interest to the making as much as to the wearing.

Take a gorgeous gradient of colours and combine it with a need to play with Brioche for the first time and a shawl is born.

Light as air and with all the scope you could ever need to play with colours, this shawl has the look of a lacework piece but is really simple and made up of only three stitches so you will fly through it with ease.

Some days it isn’t cold enough for full on winter woollies but you still want just a little something to stave off the chill, for those days I made a little scarf with a lot of swish.

We all have them. That pile of glorious little balls a yarn left over from other projects, or bought to try something out, but which have not yet found quite the right home. Well I decided it was time to breathe some life into my mini skeins and knit myself some wings at the same time. The main colour adds structure to the piece but the joy is ...

Some may shrink from the idea of a spider web wrapped round their neck but not my little boy. He can’t think of anything more fun to chase away the autumn chills, and as Halloween approaches perhaps it can help chase away a few ghosts and googlies as well.

Ever noticed how waves at the shore crash into each other making patterns of intersecting lines that dance and play in the light? In this scarf pattern I have tried to capture the essence of those waves in yarn. The structure of the wavelet scarf is generated by offset triangles leading to a steeply pointed edge reminiscent of the breaking wave...