Tag: tips
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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 throw on in the evenings as the weather cools. Aeolian is knit in Ainsworth &
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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 a very flat chain edge. It involves a cat’s cradle of yarn and a bit
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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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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 can use a stand alone motif rather than an all over pattern, just enough to
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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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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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When pear shaped is good
When Louise said that I was to come up with a few lines of inspiration for our first blog post my mind went blank. It does the same when I’m trying to remember a song or book or even more embarrasingly when I go to make an introduction. Then I had a light-bulb moment, pear
