Tag Archives: techniques

Yellow loose top hung from blue rail. Roses, flowered playing cards and horse shoes on top of rail

By Nicola Turner
19th July 2023

Crochet Cast On

This is the first of two posts on the Aeolian top pattern highlighting techniques you may not have used before. Our Aeolian top is ideal when summer days are not as warm as they should be, it's also easy to …

A yellow top hanging on a vintage blue coat rail. Roses are placed on top of the rail with two playing cards.

By Louise Diggins
19th July 2023

Modified Three Needle Bind Off

Aeolian Top This is the second of two tutorials for the Aeolian top. To mirror the chain edge created by the Crochet Cast-On we used a Modified 3-Needle Bind-Off at the side seams. This eliminates the purl bumps and gives …

By Louise Diggins
4th April 2020

Closed-Loop Cables – Increasing and Decreasing

I've always enjoyed knitting cables, I find them more intuitive than lace where I can get horribly lost, but when I designed the Heart's End Hat pattern and Miss Havisham Mittens closed-loop cables were new to me. With closed-loop you …

By Louise Diggins
21st March 2019

Pink

There has been a bit of a pink theme this month. Having eaten my way through a lot of avocados lately I saved the stones and skins for dyeing.

By Louise Diggins
5th March 2019

Cornus Midwinter Fire

The Cornus needed pruning and a quick Google search says that Dogwoods give a blue dye.

By Louise Diggins
5th March 2019

Natural dyeing with Eucalyptus bark

Before I played with wool I grew plants for a living, there were a lot of hardy exotics in my life and I still occasionally spend the odd morning at the nursery talking about plant production and happened to notice …

By Nicola
20th March 2017

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 …

By Nicola
1st January 2017

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 …

By Louise Diggins
16th July 2016

Provisional crochet cast on

When I taught myself to knit in the early 1980’s life was simple when a pattern said cast on you did just that, a simple cable cast on and off you went. There was only one way to cast on, …

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