Tag Archives: tips
- 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 …
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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 13th January 2016
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 …