I’ve been thinking an awful lot lately about what a knitting - or crochet - pattern is. What value it contains. How much work goes into one. What they mean to those of us who design and write them...
This month in The Knitter my first article about Hats and Hat design for them has been published! And it's all about crown shaping. I got talking to the editor a while back, and we discussed the...
I have so many blog posts planned, to explain further my design process and inspiration, and to answer some of the many questions you've asked, yet finding the time to write them isn't easy. Being...
Aran has been poorly this last week. He's better today, still a little rundown, but his temperature is getting back to normal and he has a bit more spark. There hasn't been much else happening to...
Babelfish translates the title literally to 'The Great Review of the Points', but then we all know Babelfish talks nonsense. 'Points' is the Italian word for stitches, so the title reads more like...
I'd like some feedback, please! When it comes to pattern writing, we all know there are different ways to express the same thing, just like there are US and UK terminologies, and as an independent...
Whilst trying to drift off to sleep the night before UK Ravelry Day, Babylonglegs and myself were talking about design influences, and she told me she liked the post where I showed photos showing...
When I originally posted asking for questions related to my design approach, the most popular question asked is where do I get my inspiration from? To answer, I think it comes from a few places, yet...
Something I've often thought about sharing is my design process, or how I go about a Hat from start to scratch, what drives me, where my inspiration comes from etc. What's stopped me is that I've...
