Drum roll please……tah dah! Sharon’s Cowl pattern is live on Revelry to buy. The cowl is merino & baby alpaca so it’s really snuggly to wear for the long winter nights. The design features a large horse shoe cowl with garter stitch strips which are intertwined with the cable to add a different look &… Read more »
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Sharon’s Cowl
Drum roll please……..tah dah it’s the Sharon’s Cowl, it’s live! Take a look on Revelry for Sharon’s Cowl. My first published pattern
A New Home for Knitting School!
Hello everyone We have a new home for knitting school! We are so delighted to be able to expand our Knitting School premises & offer a lovely environment for you to learn or hone your machine knitting skills in. We have a lovely large, open, airy sunny studio now for you all to come &… Read more »
Denver Knitting Shop Mirage
Hi all, Just came back from a great day out in Denver. Totally unexpectedly stumbled upon a fabulous little knitting shop in Denver library! I know, how weird is that a knitting shop in a library!! If only Northamptom library did the same, how many budding new knitwear designers there would be?! So what was… Read more »
Nottingham Trent University
I was recently up in Nottingham meeting Fashion Marketing students to discuss my eco knitwear brand. The students are working on a live project with myself & another designer. I was very impressed with their enthusiasm for my product & how much they were interested in me as a designer. All of the students are going… Read more »
Creative knitting school, eco knitwear design, freelance knitwear design update
The website is really starting to come together now with lots to think about & do. My good friend Jo of www.cocoacreative.co.uk is whipping the whole thing into shape with some lovely design ideas & teaching me all about website design & technical stuff (a very hard task for anyone when you are a textile person,… Read more »
Creative Machine Knitting School has been hailed a great success
Hello all, Well, the creative knitting school has been hailed a great success! Courses are filling up fast so take a look at my website http://knittingschool.co.uk/ to see when the next dates are. The courses a run on a rolling calendar so don’t worry if you are unlucky this time, all courses will be repeated… Read more »
Knitting School. Creative machine knitting courses & information
Well, here’s the first blog for my Knitting School! Watch out for the website http://knittingschool.co.uk/ which will be live soon. In the mean time, look here for all the information regarding workshop dates & times. Here’s a brief outline of what the courses will be about:- Creative design: machine knitting workshops Here at ‘Knitting School’… Read more »
See my knitwear designs on line at Moschino & River Island
Well I have had a great week seeing my design on line in Moschino www.moschino.com look under women’s knitwear, scroll down to row 6. The design I sold is the first on the left look at the image above-does it look familiar? It’s now blue ground with red black & cream circles across the chest instead… Read more »
Off to Nottingham to discuss eco yarns & other knitty things
I’m off to sit in a meeting with some very important people in recycling & eco knitwear specialists tomorrow! It’s fantastic that I am able to be in the same room as these influencial people for a few hours! I have really been looking forward this meeting for a while. I can show them all… Read more »