Brambles and Bindweed

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Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These fingerless mitts have a raised ridge of colour, creating dramatic swooping lines from wrists to fingers.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Ridged lines of swirling colour bring texture to this simple hat design. The colour combinations are almost endless – what do you prefer? A vibrant colour pop or softly swirling ripples?
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
What happens when you ask a six year old to design a hat? You get volcanos, dinosaurs, earflaps and a VERY BIG POMPOM! All in lovely bright colours.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This is my take on a classic hat construction. The hat makes use of both colours in the brioche pattern to really emphasize the twirl. This pattern makes the most out of a few stitches; it’s an ideal pattern for a first venture into brioche, or for adapting the pattern to your own needs.
Knitting: Decorative - Other
Our family has a Christmas tradition of providing a small gift at the dinner table for each person. It’s usually chocolates, or a little inexpensive stocking filler. What is important is how it is presented. Each year we make something with a hidden compartment. This is my offering this year - a Christmas pudding; but if you lift up the sauce t...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Working in brioche always makes me think of baking bread. A traditional loaf inspired this hat. A Coburg loaf is slashed across the top before baking which creates coloured star on the top. This hat replicates the effect using syncopated brioche.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Fīfta, (pronounced feef-ta) is the Old English word for fifth; a very fitting name for this hat. I see many designs that are based on quarters, sixths or eighths, but it is less often that the odd numbers get a look in. So, this hat celebrates the fifth in all its glory. Five plaited brioche columns are separated by five areas of colourful gart...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
One of my favourite cloud formations is the mackerel sky. I have tried to capture this rippling pattern in this beanie hat, so that you can walk under such a sky any time you want. This hat features a deep brim, which can be folded over to show off the tubular cast-on edge. The hat is worked flat, then seamed along the back edge to finish. Choo...
Knitting: Cloche Hat
Some patterns write themselves, and that was certainly the case for this hat. The hat whipped up really quickly, right to the point where I started the flower. Sometimes the best thing to do is to walk away, so I went to Flowerdown Barrows. It’s a peaceful spot; I sat and contemplated. A whole new approach to the flower ran around my head. Once...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This light summer wrap is based around squares:  a large central square is flanked on each side by additional squares, each one smaller than the last.  The strong geometric lines contrast with the soft curves of the cabling in the centre panel.  The finished shawl is approximately 155cm/ 60 inches long and 40cm/ 16 inches wide at widest part. Y...
Knitting: Beret, Tam
Longer ago than I care to remember, a friend gave me a book covering the basics of how to design your own celtic knots. It was while I was weaving some crochet strands together that I wondered about the possibilities of using i-cord to make a celtic knot. If placed on a hat, the strands could float over the top, going wherever they most natural...
Knitting: Scarf
The Hebrides are a group of islands off the wild and rocky west coast of Scotland. Fifteen hundred years ago the islands were at the heart of a Celtic society. This scarf takes inspiration from the artwork of this time by repeating one of the simplest Celtic knot designs to represent the chain of islands within a sea of double moss stitch. The ...
Knitting: Cowl
Bimble noun/verb: to go for a short, leisurely walk in the outdoors. “I went for a bimble today”. This cowl is small and compact, perfect for bimbling out and about in the autumn weather. It knits up quickly using only knit, purl and slipped stitches. It’s an ideal introduction to mosaic knitting.
Knitting: Cowl
Arlesford is a small market town in Hampshire, England. The town centre is the perfect setting for ladies who lunch; Georgian buildings are filled with pavement cafes and boutique shops. And when the weather turns chilly, what better thing to wear than this mosaic knit cowl?
Crochet: Hanging Ornament
Happy, colourful and cheerful this celtic knot bunting is ideal decoration for any event. It can be made from oddments of yarn, so is an ideal stash-busting project.
Knitting: Scarf
This pattern is inspired by traditional patchwork quilting designs. it looks complicated, but knits together easily, making a good next project for a beginner wanted to challenge themselves.
Knitting: Cowl
This friendship cowl knitting pattern is the perfect stash buster project and provides a splash of colour on misty grey autumn days. Its really flexible in the number of ways that it can be worn.
Knitting: Decorative - Other
This little elf has a secret compartment inside, perfect for hiding small gifts as a place setting as part of the Christmas table decoration. It measures approximately 12 cm (5 in) tall and 4.5cm (1 ¾ in) diameter.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This large shawl is all about the colour; wrap yourself in fifteen different colours, all working together to capture the essence of a summer day on the heather clad Yorkshire hills. Inspired by, and using, the colour pack of wool from Attic24 (available from Wool Warehouse), the shawl is mainly triangle shaped, worked from the top down. It has...