For all of the comments on my granddad’s knitting. I’m so lucky to have these, and delighted to have you to appreciate what treasures they are. My mum called me up to tell me that the post, and your comments, made her cry. She told me a little more about her father’s knitting and her [...]

I didn’t know my granddad, William Stewart, very well - he died just after my seventh birthday, but even as a little kid I thought he was interesting. He was an airplane engineer, computer programmer (in the super early punchcard days), member of the Fort William mountain rescue team, father of 6, fiddle maker (but [...]

I honestly have no idea why I didn’t fix this ages ago, somehow I’d convinced myself that I’d already done it. Oops! If you’ve made Elijah and got confused when picking up the ear stitches, I’m so sorry it was totally my fault. The arrows were all kinds of back to front and directed you [...]

I’ve finally finished the updated version of the Gretel pattern based on your very helpful feedback. It’s been emailed to everyone who has purchased the pattern, but please let me know if you haven’t got it (preferably from the email address you used when you bought it so I can verify your id). Of course [...]

One of the stranger things to have come out of this creative blogging thing has been my own increasing interest in visual creativity (horrible phrase, but you know what I mean - right?). Although I’ve always been creative, I didn’t take art in high school and I was a lot more interested in crafting, writing [...]

I have been working on the Coraline pattern today, but this keeps pestering me for attention.

Brilliantly red hand dyed cashmere lace weight from Posh Yarn that my camera failed utterly to photograph, appropriately named ‘Sassy’. If you’d like your own beautiful, unique yarn to distract you from getting any work done they’re [...]

Look what’s blocking.

I love it so much, everything that wasn’t quite perfect about the first version has been carefully re-worked and I’m delighted with the results. It looks better and it was simpler and more fun to knit. Plus I was being good and pattern writing as I went, so no awkward reverse [...]

I thought when I posted yesterday that the voting for the Sexy Knitters Club was going to end next Monday, on the 14th, but it had actually already ended on the 7th. It seems, from the high number of uncounted votes that I wasn’t the only one confused, but I’m sorry if I added to [...]

If you’ve been thinking about making Snow White but like the idea of knitting along with others you might be interested in knowing that the pattern has been nominated as a possible next pattern for the Sexy Knitters Club. Anyone can join them and there have been some great, very active knitalongs in the past. [...]