Waving Away
23 March 2023
My fourth elemental pattern is here and the set is complete! Uisge, or water, joins Talamh (earth), Adhar (air) and Teine (fire). Four pairs of mitts with different patterns running
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Tag: Fingerless Mitts
Flickering Flames
23 February 2023
I’m starting off 2023 with my third elemental mitt – Fire! Isn’t this lace pattern pretty? I picked it because it looks a little like a candle flame! After the
Airy Mitts
13 October 2022
Last time I introduced you to Talamh and my Elemental mitts series. Today it’s the turn of the second pattern – Adhar or Air! When I started working on this
Elemental Mitts
15 September 2022
As you probably know, Eden Cottage Yarns Hayton 4ply is my absolute favourite yarn for fingerless mitts. Fingerless mitts are also one of my favourite things to design and knit
Flowing Along
24 March 2022
This pattern has taken me on quite a journey. From start to finish I cast-on four times in two different yarns before I finally got something that was going to
Mitts Unzipped
25 November 2021
I love to play with the construction of my fingerless mitts. Usually this means putting decorative elements around the thumb, travelling across the back of the hand or making a
Ribs and Wraps
2 September 2021
Sometimes I have an idea for a design and it just takes on a life of its own! This time the idea I came up with was for a sock
Ridges and Furrows
18 February 2021
When I started it was just going to be a fingerless mitts pattern (Dromanach) first. I had some beautiful speckled yarn from Eden Cottage Yarns to work with and I
Suainte – Entwined
23 January 2020
If you’ve been following me on Instagram over the last few weeks, you’ll have seen a lot of Suainte as I’ve been knitting away almost monogamously to get back on
Lùbach – Meandering To and Fro
10 October 2019
Lùbach wasn’t in my plans for this year. After Dealas my next pattern was supposed to be a Brioche cowl (as I told my newsletter subscribers). Things didn’t go to
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Shoormil – Yardage Calculator
I’m going to preface this by saying that there is no pattern support for the spreadsheet. If you follow the instructions on the spreadsheet you
Notions About Notions
I saw a post on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, about a knitter who had gone on a cruise and only realised once she