Knitwear Design from Wales
My blog shares with you my passion for knitting and creativity through designs, kits, and, sometimes, random thoughts and pictures!
Colourways
I’m getting ready to put the new Twisted and Bryn kits together! This is Weku Yarn’s Bukom DK which is a gorgeous mix of Bluefaced Leicester and Corriedale wool. In order to make the kits I needed photos for the labels: It’s hard to get good photos of navy and royal purple yarn when they’re…
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Blocked
I’ve finally blocked my short version of Leaf and Vine, knitted in a lovely undyed light grey 4ply yarn from Second City Yarns. I’d forgotten how much this pattern grows when it’s stretched out! I used less than 2 skeins (each 450m/100g) for this cardigan (in the 7th size). Isn’t blocking magical?! I’ve clipped the…
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Candles and Cake
Today’s post will be a short one as it’s my birthday! We started celebrating it early by having dinner out last night at Ffarm Hall, (which does have 2 ‘ff’s, thank you auto-correct!) and it was delicious! It’s a rare thing to go out to eat and know that I can choose anything off the…
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Startitis
I seem to have developed a case of ‘startitis’. It’s nothing chronic, but seems to be in its most active phase at the moment. For those of you unfamiliar with the condition it occurs when a knitter (or any crafter) has the urge to begin several projects one after the other without having finished any…
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Busy Needles
It’s been good to have a slightly less manic week as I have been able to do some knitting and planning future ideas. The yarn I ordered for the adult version of Caramel Slice arrived, but the colours were not quite what I had expected. The Copper was lighter and the Carrot was really really…
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My very first blog post from September 2020…
New Beginnings
Tuesday 29th September 2020
Hi, I’m Kath. Previously a music teacher for 21 years, I became a full-time knitwear designer and knitting teacher in 2018. I love living in North Wales and getting thoroughly immersed in what I’m doing, whether that’s a project, book or border that needs weeding.
This website has been up for a whole week now! It feels as though that was an aeon ago, but when I think that it was 21st August that I registered my domain name and 22nd September (only 32 days later) when I pressed the ‘launch site’ button, I can hardly believe so much has happened in this short space of time.
The theme of this post is ‘New Beginnings’. September has seemed like the ‘New Year’ for me for most of my life – I was either in school, a student, or a teacher. It has always felt like the time to start afresh, create new resolutions and try new things. It’s only been two years that I’ve been out of the classroom so that’s been a well-established habit. On September 1st 2018 I dyed my hair turquoise for the first time as a marker that I was no longer a school teacher.
There are so many things I could say about 2020, but, for now, I want to focus on the good bits:
I took a bullet journalling course with the wonderful Felicity Ford in July, and this practice is revolutionising my life (and given me a good excuse to resurrect my childhood obsession with stationery).
As a result of not being able to sell at craft fairs and pop up shops because of Covid19, and because of the accessibility issues arising from my previous (and still, currently, main) pattern platform, I opened a Payhip shop, which in turn led to this website.
I’m also very excited about the upcoming Craftucation platform for online arts and crafts courses where I have been invited to be a tutor (and my first course is very nearly finished!).
So, there are many new beginnings that I am grateful for, even though a lot of things seem to falling down around our ears right now. My life has its complications as does everyone’s, but there is still enough on the ‘good’ side of the balance and I intend to share some of that with you all in the weeks to come.
Keep knitting,
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I bought Menai pattern at Woolfest but am having problem with row 15. i have picked it out several times but am unable to get this row right. HELP PLEASE
Hi! Thanks for your message. I’ve replied to your query by email.
I bought Petulia pattern but am having problem with rows 7 and 9. I am unable to figure out how to p1, sl1yo into double yo and k1, p1 into double yo. Please help.
Hi, if you email me at kathandrewsdesigns@icloud.com I can help you.