I have a new free pattern for you. It’s published in the new diy issue of Snippets alongside lots of other fun articles and you can find it here.

Hope you like it!

Elijah’s rather intrigued by my current work in progress.

He can’t wait to make friends with this little pink bunny. Both designs are based on the same basic body, so they’ll go together rather well. Of course the details on the rabbit are a little different, I love the way that the decreases on [...]

This afternoon my friend Allison invited city knitty (my local knitting group) members to her house for a stitch marker making workshop. So much fun, especially playing with all of her gadgets. Even Elijah joined in.

Thank you for the lovely afternoon Allison :)

I love gingerbread in all its forms, but cupcakes are the cutest of cakes and the sweet, spicy gingerbread goes wonderfully with this slightly sharp icing. This recipe should make about 12 muffin sized cupcakes, but I used shallower fairy cake type cases (is that distinction at all meaningful outside the UK?) and ended [...]

Does dreaming about yarn mean you knit too much? Most likely, but anyways a few months ago I had a dream that someone gave me a skein of a beautiful cobweb weight dark greenish blue yarn. Strangely it wasn’t a yarn that I’d have considered buying myself, but I woke up sleepily thinking of what [...]

Otherwise known as me attempting to write a post for the sake of blogging daily when I have nothing especially fascinating to share. But a few people have asked questions recently and I thought my anwsers might be helpful to share.
The long tail tubular cast on tutorial:
Q. so, question, when do you transfer to [...]

Today Elijah accompanied me and my friend Joanna to Glasgow. From a dress buying point of view it was totally unsuccessful, but we had a lot of fun. Elijah’s collection of different transport experiences continued. First we took the train. He enjoyed peering down at everyone from the luggage rack, but preferred looking out the [...]

I’m so glad the video was useful and clear, I have more planned. The comments on my accent were certainly expected, but I’m curious to know where you think I do sound like I’m from. If you want some evidence of my Scottishness here’s what I was craving as comfort food after a tiring day [...]

Today I finally got around to setting up the video camera to make tutorials. This is the first, the way I usually work a tubular cast on. It’s basically a variation of long tail cast on, hence the name, and I’ve shown how to re-arrange the stitches for 2×2 rib. If you’re working in the [...]

Clearly I only have to post about finishing what I’ve started to find myself, the very next day, starting on something new.