A short cape to keep the chill off your shoulders. Brenhines means Queen in Welsh and you’ll feel like a queen wearing this. Can be worked using plain yarn, or as a showcase for a fabulous tailspun yarn. If you don’t want to spin your own tailspun then sites like Etsy have a wide range of tailspun yarns, available for purchase.

I’m sure I can’t be the only one who hoards part balls of yarn leftover from larger projects, or who has skeins of handspun that were interesting to spin, but produced too small a yardage to be useful for very much. The yarn used in the samples were from part balls I’d already used to make some colourwork mittens, a shrug, and one of my first f...

A simple shawl/scarf designed for handspun.

Coedlan (pronounced Coydlan), is Welsh for coppice, when you cut back a willow or hazel tree it grows back from the stump producing thin, straight leafy shoots, an area of woodland where the trees have been cut like this is called a coppice. This is a short scarf that won’t curl, and is held closed by a single large button.

Rhwyd (pronounced rrrud) is Welsh for net, the central part of this pattern reminds me of a fisherman’s net. It works really well with handspun yarns and highly variegated handpainted yarns.

Mynydd, pronounced munith, is welsh for mountain. I spend my days surrounded by mountains. The stitch panels remind me of mountains, the hills in Wales just keep rising and falling, just like the stitches in this pattern.