I have just finished my first piece for the city and guilds diploma. It is a felt vessel inspired by galaxies, nebulous and stars. ...

Nancy contacted me recently regarding a correction to ROW 17 to the leaf pattern. Nancy .....for ROW 17, slip 1 stitch onto the right needl...

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. I bought myself a wee present ......two skeins of Sublime lustrous extrafine merino dk and knitted mys...

Can't believe how long it has been since I have written a blog post. How time flies! I have been busy with City and Guild coursework an...

I'm still easing myself gently into the wet felting. I saw a tutorial for making felt balls in the washing machine on the Painted Threa...

The city and guilds classes have well and truly started. I'm doing felting this year. As I haven't done much actual wet felting I...

Ive just put a new pattern on - see below for a whoopie pie. Hope someone can make use of it. The two halves are knitted with dpns and the ...

WHOOPIE PIE THIS PATTERN IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED. DO NOT REPRODUCE PATTERN. DO NOT SELL ITEMS KNITTED FROM THIS PATTERN FOR PROF...

A friend came home from America and was telling me that whoopie pies where the new cupcakes. To be honest I had never heard of them but rec...

I've been having computer problems recently, but I have just got myself back online. I'm taking the opportunity to release a new pa...

When a new baby arrives, I always like to knit some wee thing. I found a ball of essentials merino, in the loveliest colour of pink in my s...

I spent a nice morning on the beach, the purpose of the mission was to find some tumbled beach glass. I did a jewellery course during ...

Sorry if anyone has been trying to access my patterns in the last few days. I closed down the blog due to a problem, shall we say, with th...

I saw this 24 Leaf Quilt on Marion Boddy-Evan's blog and loved the simplicity of the design. The tree also reminded me of a lime tree ...

I spent a nice day working in the garden on the cat for my new pattern. Still have to write it up mind you. I like the idea of combinin...

I had a free afternoon today and decided I would make up a bracelet which I saw in the Annahilt bead shop. Ive written up the instruc...

At the moment I am writing up a pattern for a knitted cat. However progress is very slow and my enthusiasm has waned somewhat. For a wee b...

Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable morning at the Bead Shop in Annahilt. I have signed up for a jewellery course during the summer ho...

Why is it when the badminton net goes up in the back garden for the summer months - the rain comes on! Not to worry, I managed to take a f...

Tomorrow is the day when the external examiner comes to Belfast to mark the City and Guild pieces. She will be looking at my knitted items...