Knitwear Design from Wales
My blog shares with you my passion for knitting and creativity through designs, kits, and, sometimes, random thoughts and pictures!
Getting Things Done
I’ve actually done quite a lot of knitting this week! The sample of Bryn I showed you last week knitted in Weku Yarn Bukom DK is glorious – these colours are Golden Yellow and Royal Purple and this yarn is now available on Weku Yarn’s website! The purple is a lot more vibrant in real…
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Don’t Stop Me Now
We got home from the East Anglia Yarn Festival yesterday, successfully completing the third yarn show of the year. As always at EAYF it was a lot of fun, and we saw some old friends who we only see at this show, both visitors and other vendors. This included Victoria who I first met in…
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Manchester – so much to thank you for!
This week feels very short and in a way it is – we have just four days in between returning from one big show – TexStyle in Manchester – and going to another one – East Anglia Yarn Festival just outside Norwich. Unsurprisingly therefore, my printer is working overtime as I type and I’m awaiting…
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Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
Knitted ones at any rate! I designed Ice Diamond Mitts five and a half years ago and I’ve been knitting a new sample from the pattern this week. I’ve just reached the point where the stitches for the thumb are divided away from the rest of the stitches. Diamond patterns are a common feature of…
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Let’s Go Round Again
Having finally blocked my size four 4ply sample of What Do Points Make? I have sewn some very small side seams and woven in all the ends. It’s come out larger than the laceweight version in both length and width, but not ridiculously so. This 4ply yarn (Little Bird Sock from LottieKnits) is a gorgeously…
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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.