A geographically inaccurate skyline of the Yorkshire Dales, with Bolton Abbey, Skipton Castle, sheep, and even a bit of Ilkley Moor, with the Ribblehead Viaduct circling the top. The colourwork is stranded and there are some quite long floats to carry so be sure you’re comfortable catching floats before you start.

The Law Hill is a lovely gentle walk in Clackmannanshire, easy to do with different sections as you go up through woodland, over streams and out into the fields. This scarf reminds me of that because it’s easy to do and has short, interesting sections to keep it fun.

The pattern includes instructions for either the hat or the cowl, depicting a geographically inaccurate representation of Newcastle, including the Angel of the North, the Tyne Bridge, the cathedral, castle keep and the Civic Centre, with the Great North Runners around the brim.

This pattern is knit from the bottom up in the round using traditional fair isle motifs and stranded knitting.

The pattern uses 12 colours of 4ply in total, 20g/100m of the main colour and 10g/50m Miniballs of the other 11 colours. The colours used in the sample shown are Tudor (main colour), Putty, Blueberry, Cumin, Rosebud, Seaholly, Marble Gemstone, Atlantic Spray, Crab Apple, Spice, Marzipan and Confetti. It would also work well in two colours. The ...

Here’s a friend for Harold Fatmus.

The pattern includes instructions for either the hat or the cowl, depicting a geographically inaccurate representation of Stirling, the ancient capital of Scotland. There’s Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument, the Bridge Clocktower (on the Customs roundabout) and a unicorn from the amazing recreation of the ancient Hunt for the Unicorn tapest...

Designed for the lovely new yarn produced by Annfield farm, this simple cabled hat uses one hank of their DK yarn.

This pattern was originally designed to celebrate the Glasgow School of Yarn 2021.

This pattern includes instructions for a cowl, hat and fingerless mittens with a patchwork design. The pattern is written for Miniballs - 10g balls of pure wool 4ply yarn spun in Scotland by JC Rennie. Other 4ply yarn can be substituted, you need the following total yardage for the designs:

Caw paw socks! These fun bed socks are super cosy. They can be knitted with stripes in 3 colours or just 2. The Truffle comes in 6 natural shades so you can match the colours to your own cat!

This is a very simple pattern to knit with striking effect. The self-striping yarn with the fluffy Truffle work together to make a soft, snuggly, warm cowl that looks great on both sides.

A Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) is a traditional Scottish social event where Scottish dancing and a lively band is required. And probably a fair bit of beer and whisky. And stout shoes.

A bias knit rainbow using Kinross miniskeins, 7x20g with approx 82m in each colour. Starting at the tip of the red and with little light waves where the colours change. An easy, straight forward knit in a beautifully soft lambswool yarn. Named for the famous Pink Floyd album cover.

This hat was designed to celebrate Perth Festival of Yarn, a wonderfully woolly event held each year in Perth, Scotland. It is knit in the round from the brim up. The colourwork section is charted.

This pattern is for a hat and a cowl

This pattern was written to celebrate EYF - Edinburgh Yarn Festival. There are many iconic buildings in Edinburgh, it’s hard to choose a handful to put on a hat. If you’re not sure, the buildings are Nelson’s Monument (where they do the 1 o’clock gun), tenement buildings on West Bow, Dugie Stewart’s monument on Calton Hill, St Giles cathedral, ...

This pattern is designed for the Miniball gradient packs. It started out as overlapped hexagons, you can almost see them still, but the overall effect is Not Hexagons, hence the name. The cowl is knitted in the round as a tube and then the ends joined together. You can either do a provisional cast on and then graft the ends or cast on normally ...

This pattern is named for my daughter, who can be seen modelling the smallest size.

Want to wear more shawls but don’t have the time to knit more than one?

This scarf was inspired by a shoal of neon tetras swimming in an aquarium. The scarf is knitted sideways with short rows to create the wee fish and the overall shape. Only one colour is used in a row at any one time.

This cowl is knitted in the round as a tube and then the ends joined together. This cowl uses the Miniball 10 colour gradient set. The colours are blended into each other with a simple and easily memorised stranded colourwork section which resembles the joints used in woodworking.

A light, summery scarf like a bouquet of flowers! You can join the motifs as you go, and it’s easy to make a triangular shawl rather than a scarf by changing the arrangements. The many shades of Miniballs (over 90!) are ideal for this, the sample shown used the ‘Berwick Blooms’ 10 ball gradient pack, or you can choose your own combinations.

This is a pattern for three simple shawl shapes that work brilliantly with the Miniball 100g gradient packs. The 10g Miniballs in over 90 colours allow you to choose pretty much any gradient you like!

It’s cold in Loch Ness, so of course Knessie would be wearing a fair isle jumper at this time of year!

These mittens were originally knitted as a swatch to match the Spark Hat by Jo Kelly at EYF 2016.

This is a top-down crescent-shaped shawl with radiating cables that start tightly twisted and then unravel as they get to the border. The final unravelling of the strands of the cable is achieved with simple dropped stitches. Knitting in lambswool spun in Scotland which softens significantly when washed.

Simple cables wind their way up the thumb of these cosy mittens. The instructions include both full mittens and a fingerless version. The full mittens do not use all of the single 50g hank of Kinross 4ply. This yarn is made in Kinross, Scotland and is incredibly soft and versatile.

This pattern is a response to all the wee balls of left overs from previous sock projects. Not enough for a sock blanket project? Make more socks! My first pair used 11 different scraps, some as small as 5g.

This simple, slouchy hat was inspired by the traditional factory roof line known as ‘northlights’, often used by the many mills that once filled the local area. The yarn used is made in one of the last remaining mills near here.

Single length cowl (60cm) requires one hank each of two shades (shown in Scots Pine and Lichen). Double length cowl (120cm) requires two hanks each of two shades (shown in Thistle and Thrift).

It’s a hat with the Loch Ness Monster on it. Need we say more?

I love to buy laceweight and I love to use laceweight but I don’t need it very often. So I have lots of laceweight in my stash waiting to be used. Just doubling it up seems like cheating somehow. Why not just buy thicker yarn in the first place? But this shawl needs laceweight - it’s Totally Not Cheating! But it’s faster and more wearable than ...

Inspired by the matt on the floor of the janitors office in Bramble Brae Primary School.

I’ve always liked playing with moebius strips made from newspaper and wanted to apply that to knitting somehow. This is the second iteration - cf. ‘A Very Silly Idea’.

I loved playing with moebius strips made of newspaper as a child and I’d been wondering how to apply those concepts to knitting. This was the first result. You knit a strip, sew it into moebius loop then cut down the middle. I added a couple of reversible cables - why not? - but really it’s just a very simple idea. The steek is done by dropping...

This is reversible colourwork cowl, the simple geometric pattern is pretty on both sides. It has a twist in it so you can always show off both sides at once. There are three chart options for the colourwork motif.

Know a baby who doesn’t much like to sleep at night?

I made these because my new boots were rubbing at the back of the calf. They are quick to make and there’s a blank chart so you can get creative on the pattern. There are four colours in these ones but the pair weighs only 20g so they could be made with fewer colours. Miniballs are perfect for this, but any scraps of 4ply/fingering weight yarn ...

This pattern uses the yarn held double throughout. The miniballs are graded to mimic the sunset colours in the sky with the darkest colour as the foreground. The hat is knit in the round with stranded colourwork.

A simple and quick one skein shawl that is crocheted from side to side, increasing until you reach the centre then decreasing. It is written in US terms with the relevant UK terms in the abbreviations section. The optional border down the two shorter edges can be worked in a contrasting colour.

A top-down semi-circular shawlette that can be easily adapted to heavier yarns or larger sizes. As written the pattern uses a single hank of Wee County Yarns Hand Dyed Shetland 2ply laceweight (300m). You start with a garter stitch tab and there are four increases per right side row. The increases are in the holes which are placed according to ...

A very simple hat that shows off a single hank of hand dyed yarn. It makes a roomy slouchy hat or you can knit it shorter to make a beanie hat. Knitted in the round with no seaming. The slouchy hat with a large pompom uses all but a few grams of one hank.

A top down triangular shawl using two colours of 4ply. The lace border is a stitch known as ‘seafoam’ lace, so I’ve named this pattern after the Solway Firth off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway. When the wind gets up then great lumps of seafoam come flying over the headlands. The lace border is made by dropping multiple yarn overs.

This is an easy cabled hat done in the round. It has two sizes in the pattern but it is a very stretchy design so will fit a range of sizes. It uses less than 100g of King Cole Fashion Aran or King Cole Merino Blend Aran.

A quick cowl with dropped stitches and cables that is knitted flat and then seamed or grafted. It is made using less than one ball of King Cole Riot DK but would look good in a range of yarn weights and types.

This pattern was named for one of the two streams that runs down the Ochils (the range of hills that runs along the north of the Wee County) - the Burn of Care and the Burn of Sorrow, which join at the Castle Campbell and become the Dollar Burn.

This is a free pattern that uses 5 JC Rennie Miniballs, or oddments of 4ply in 5 different colours. The pattern can be also bendownloaded from our website as a PDF. The mitts are knitted in the round using two colour stranded colourwork techniques. There is a thumb gusset which is fully charted in the instructions as well as having written inst...