Tag: ainsworth and prin
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Monet Minis, Water Lily Mittens
We started letterbox mini skein sets last year with a series based on William Morris designs and as Louise has a penchant for alliteration these became Morris Minors after the much loved British car. Naturally the latest series inspired by Monet have become Monet Minis and we obviously had to include at least one set based
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Reversible Wrist Warmers
Wrist warmers could not be any simpler than these two tubes of ribbing but the fact that they have two thumb holes so can be turned upside down to show a different colour or even folded over to be worn double for very cold days makes me childishly happy. They are knitted through out in 3
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Gnomes and Fairies
During lock down to make Nicola laugh I sent her a gnome in the post. Who doesn’t raise a titter at a surprise gnome? In return she sent me a fairy, more Mavis Cruet than Cinderella. Here is the pattern if you’d like to make your own (watching Willo the Wisp is purely optional but
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Pip Pip Socks
We have a new sock pattern, Pip Pip, a top down sock with an easy purl, slip stitch pattern which is separated by increasing rounds of stocking stitch. The pattern is carried on down the heel flap and once more before you decrease for the toe. You can use one contrast colour all the way
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Club boxes
We are often asked if we do subscription boxes or advent calendars and the answer has always been a firm no and then, if you’re really unlucky, a long explanation of why not, but we’ve changed our minds. We’ve decided to try a club box, a run of three to see how they go and
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Decorated Sock Blockers
What to do in lockdown when the garden has been weeded to within an inch of its life and you’ve done as much housework as you consider necessary? Well over the last year we’ve accumulated a small pile of bunny blockers that don’t quite make the grade. Perfectly useable but slightly wonky or with a
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Blocking Your Knits and Crochet Too
You’ve spent weeks on a project, stayed up late to finish the last few rows and are excited to wear your heroic knitted or crocheted efforts. All the faff of blocking just seems one step too far, but it’s amazing what an hour or so of soaking, pinning, steaming and drying can do for your
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Lewes
The plan was to publish this pattern at the beginning of December; a perfect last minute gift that used scraps of yarn – then the website went wrong. Really, really wrong.
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Howling
Howling: a fictional Sussex village in Stella Gibbons’ classic novel, Cold Comfort Farm. A place where gumboots are essential and the wind comes in “snarling cries”. Also the name for this easy to memorise, mock rib cowl that’ll keep the snarling cries at bay.
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The Miss Lavish work bag
Miss Lavish is my workbag. Now I don’t usually name my possessions. The cat spent several months without a name and even now I’m not sure he’s a Perkins but it’s sort of stuck. My workbag, however, was named instantly, it just clicked. I’d made it from some waxed cotton that I had and lined it
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Sewing Rompers
From our first show at Woolfest last year we realised there was a small problem with our kits. So many people said that they wanted to buy one but they had baby boys. Not wanting to scar child for life by having him turned out in a dress we now have Dipper, for both
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Selborne
Selborne is a small village in Hampshire close to where our grandparents lived when we were children. Famous to most for the home of Gilbert White, the naturalist and for us the zig-zag path and violets. We would be packed into the car with our cousins and taken to the “secret woods” where you could stand
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Ainsworth & Prin Blockers
One of the things about attending lots of lovely wool shows is that Nicola and I spend a lot of time in a car. As I can’t get my head around an automatic gear box she gets to do all the driving and I get to think up new products …. or sleep.
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Ainsworth and Prin Dress Kits – Sewing the Skirt
You’ve knitted the bodice, blocked the pieces and sewn the seams and now it’s languishing in the ‘to do’ pile for want of a skirt. If you are more au fait with the knitting needles than the sewing machine we thought a photo tutorial would help the process along. Panic not – Liberty Tana Lawn is
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Yarndale
It’s Yarndale in Skipton, North Yorkshire this weekend and we’ll be on stand 167 if you’re visiting. We have a new colour combination for the kits, below is Wren knitted in grape with a skirt in Liberty Tana Lawn meadow. On the website we have four colour combinations for each kit but at a show you
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Sampler
Sampler, a warm woolly scarf to keep out the winter draughts and just what you need to knit when the temperatures hit 30°C. We had this scarf as a sample at Woolfest and we also meant to have the pattern all typed up and ready to go. Well that was the plan, it was never
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Greenfinch
I’ve been dyeing stock for our first ever show at Woolfest at the end of next month and I have a new yarn base to play with. It’s a lovely springy South American merino 4 ply, very soft but still with some body.
