Northwards is a simple shoulder shawl, worked in stocking stitch from the top centre down, using eyelets for the increases. It’s roughly triangular, though the lower point is gently curved, and perhaps more crescent-like.

Cruachte is a triangular, geometric lace shawl featuring a motif developed from the traditional Shetland lace motif called Broken Acre, worked on a stocking stitch ground with garter stitch borders.

Tidal is a square poncho, knitted from the top (or centre) down (or out), and features ripples of texture and colour in a broad band around it. It can be worn with a square neck or a V neck. I called this poncho Tidal because I knitted mine in sea colours, and because of the ripple effect of the different methods of knitting stocking stitch.

Sealonging, or Knit Your Own Beach is a wallhanging or mat which represents the ripples on the sand, the colours of the sea, and the waves crashing on the shore.

Bear With Me is a peerie teddy bear, wearing a Fair Isle yoke jumper patterned with hearts, and with a co-ordinating skirt, a lace shawl, a bear-et, and even knickers! She also has two other jumpers, a straight skirt, leggings, a lacy cowl, a hap and a lacy dress. She is approx 11” or 12” / 28cm or 30cm tall.

A symmetrical triangular shawl featuring cat’s paw lace on a stocking stitch ground, and a garter stitch and eyelet border pattern, worked all in one piece. My shawl is in a laceweight yarn (100g / 800m skein) and measures approx. 66cm / 26” deep to the point of the triangle and 204cm / 80” across the wingspan.

Fish for compliments with this fish scale, fish tail hat.

Spoot is a cowl worked in razor shell lace in the round, and a quick, one ball knit. I used one 50g ball of King Cole Majestic DK on a 6mm circular needle.

Northern Lights is a shawl which attempts to recreate the curtain effect of the Northern Lights across the sky. It features a deep New Shell border, and short rows in garter stitch to make a symmetrical shawl, worked from the bottom point up.

Shetland Lighthouses is a headband designed in partnership with children at Scalloway School in Shetland and Light the North - the lighthouse trail, raising funds for Clan Cancer Support.

How to make your wave more wave-y!

I was going to call these “The Kitten’s Mittens” - after all, when you use Cat’s Paw as your lace motif, something feline seems appropriate! - but they kept getting abbreviated, so here are the Kitt’s Mitts.

You’ve heard of a Sou’wester - but what about a Nor’Aister? well, what else do you call a hat made from Aister Oo, wool from Shetland, to the far north east of the British Isles?

The Quendale Beach headband and wristlets were designed to complement my prize-winning Quendale Beach Shawlette. Both can be worn either way up. They feature sand, textured with occasional ripples (varying sections of knit and purl stitches), lacy spume and the waves of the sea. The lace pattern is based on Auld Shell. They are worked in the ro...

The Quendale Beach Shawlette was my entry in the Shetland Textile Museum “At the Beach” competition 2021. It has a slightly curved, assymetric shape to represent my favourite beach in Shetland. The sand is rippled, textured with varying sections of knit and purl stitches. The spume lace pattern is based on Auld Shell, but with insets of colour ...

Widdergaets is a sleeveless slipover with a deep border pattern of turning motifs, and contrast rib neck and armhole borders. It’s a companion to the Widdershins headband (also available on Ravelry.)

Square Up is a Shetland hap made with a non-traditional construction. It’s knitted in the round from the centre out, starting on DPNs (yes, it’s a little fiddly at first) and then progressing onto long circular needles for each of its four sides. It is worked in stocking stitch, with garter stitch stripes for contrast and texture, and yarn over...

Ebb and Flow is a crescent, or semi-circular shawl designed to fit comfortably on the shoulders to warm the upper back. It features stripes of colour and texture, and a deep lace border based on Auld Shell. It is knitted from the nape of the neck to end with the border.

Stack is a scarf which plays with a traditional Shetland lace motif called Broken Acre. Here, the basic motif is used for texture, and creates a stacking pattern on a stocking stitch background.

Aister Wester is a design I developed to use Aister Oo, a new Shetland yarn from Aister Croft in Cunningsburgh, Shetland. The name of the motif design plays on the Shetland dialect for east - aist (sometimes aest), and has arrows pointing in two directions. The arrows are differently arranged for right and left hands.

Hap-ish came into being when I decided it was time to knit with some of the Uradale Yarn in my stash, and thought I would make a basic, hap-ish kind of shawl. The name stuck!

This collection of traditional Shetland laces includes Auld Shell and Cat’s Paw. Each is given in its usual, traditional format, and with my variations, which alter the spacing slightly.

This collection offers ideas for making scarves in traditional Shetland lace patterns - Razor Shell, New Shell and Horse Shoe. All these laces are reversible and worked on a garter stitch background.

Klavier is a border design, depicting octaves of a keyboard - maybe a piano, organ, harpsichord or clavichord. You might want to change the colours to match the particular instrument.

VIKINGS!

Widdershins - Telling It Slant is a dynamic, turning motif. It looked better with a diagonal arrangement, hence my borrowing “telling it slant” from poet, Emily Dickinson.

Vikings!

Blanda is a hat with a veil-like scarf, and was my entry in the Iceland Knit Fest 2020 competition. It features a traditional Icelandic tail cap with a fish tail instead of a tassell, which then flows into a scarf.

This is a simple baby blanket worked all in one in a basketweave texture with garter stitch borders. As long as you can knit and purl, you can make this.

These fingerless mitts complement the Moon Phases Headband, and depict the lunar phases in a choice of a vertical arrangement, or a slanted arrangement - which suggests the elliptical orbit of the moon.

This cosy headband is knitted in Jamieson’s of Shetland Heather to co-ordinate with the Pebble Dash Slipover (see separate pattern). It’s a quick knit, worked in the round with a few rounds of ribbing top and bottom, and the stranded colourwork rounds between.

This design is a simple slipover, suitable for anyone to wear. It is knitted in the round to the armholes, then front and back are worked to and fro. Three needle cast off is used for the shoulder seams. As long as you can knit, purl, make 1, k2tog and ssk - you should be able to make this!

Based on Audur Sveinsdottur’s award winning design in the 1970s, here is my translation / adaption of the traditional Icelandic tail cap. The pattern includes instructions for making a beanie version if you like to keep your ears warm (as I do).

Inspired by the Mirrie Dancers, the Shetland name for the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, this headband and fingerless mitts set is a quick, fun knit, and perfect for wearing when you’re hoping to see this mysterious, and sometimes elusive, sight.

Knit the lunar phases in a headband, perfect for star-gazing!

Ebba sweater knitted in the round - with optional design elements of lace, and colourwork, which can be used separately or combined - to create a boxy, 3/4 sleeve sweater. Quantities of wool will vary according to options chosen, but around 5-7 balls of Lett Lopi in main colour, and one each of four contrast colours should be sufficient for 36-...