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1. My 1st design in "The Knitter"

   Posted on 11:52am Tuesday 21st Jun 2016

   The Knitter is the premier magazine for confident knitters who are looking for beautiful, original patterns from the world’s best designers (quote taken striaght from their web site). So imagine how I felt when the editor Kirstie liked my "cross over top" idea and featured the pattern in the 99th edition of the Knitter that's out today- 21st June 2016.

   Update - This pattern is now available from my web site - click here 

   

   I submitted the idea to their "criss cross trends" theme. Kirstie stipulated that she wanted something that combined both lace and cables. Well I gave them that in my chequered lace and cable pattern. I also incorporated the "criss cross" in the actual finish of the garment as one half criss crosses over the front. 

   Where did I get this unusual idea from? you may wonder, well it came to me out of the blue in the middle of the night.! Can I really create a garment out of 2 long pieces of knitting I thought to myself. So early in the morning, No I didnt knit 2 scarves, I simply took 2 pieces of fabric and pinned them on my mannequin, adjusting the width of each fabric piece as I went along. Mmm I thought, If I sew it here and here and joined it up the back, yes it would work. 

   Knitting it was a worrying task though. What if I knitted the pieces and somehow I had done my calculations incorrectly and it didn't fit anymore? There is no trying it on to fit as you go along with this top. Phew, all was OK though. Here you can see it in the latest edition of The Knitter magazine

    

   

2. Another exciting collaboration

   Posted on 2:54pm Wednesday 13th Apr 2016

   Myself and Steph from Perran Yarns have got together again to bring you another knitting kit . This time using a skein of her gorgous sea cell yarn (70% silk , 30% sea cell)  and a design that I came up with specially for this yarn. Its a pretty feminine cresent shaped shawl, with rows of pretty nupped flowers and some short row gater stitch shaping to form the slightly curved crescent shape. I've been told that it's an interesting knit and not too challenging. 

   

   She sells the kits at craft fairs and in her on-line Etsy shop

    

   The pattern itself , I have for sale in my Ravelry store