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  • Inspiration for Ooey Gooey by Andrea Mowry
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    Inspiration for Ooey Gooey by Andrea Mowry

    Every year Andrea Mowry creates a design in preparation for the Rhinebeck Wool Festival, one of the world’s largest annual wool gatherings. Her 2025 design is the Ooey Gooey sweater! Andrea says the inspiration for this sweater began with a beautiful modern rug with undulating curves. She began drawing up some colorwork charts, and immediately…

    George Cullen

  • Inspiration for Flea Sweater
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    Inspiration for Flea Sweater

    We often get a lot of requests for how the Flea Sweater might look in different colour combos. I’ve attempted to work a little photoshop magic to give you some ideas. The Flea Sweater takes six different colours of the beautiful Pickles Pure Wool. Pure Wool is a worsted spun 4ply weight yarn, that comes…

    George Cullen

  • Tessellated by Andrea Mowry – Colour Inspiration
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    Tessellated by Andrea Mowry – Colour Inspiration

    We have revamped the ever popular Tessellated Kits so I’m having a rummage through the shelves and putting together some colour combinations. The Tessellated pattern comes in either a vest or a pullover and both incorporate this beautifully simple slip stitch colourwork design. The vest is a simple round necked tank top knit from the…

    George Cullen

  • New Project – Newspaper by Joji Locatelli
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    New Project – Newspaper by Joji Locatelli

    So you take our favourite designer and pair it with our favourite yarn and what do you get? Pure magic if you ask me! The Newspaper jumper is not only stunning, it speaks to me on so many levels… Joji says about the design: I don’t like reading the news. I think I should do…

    MayaB

  • A Year Long Knit-A-Long – Junction Road
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    A Year Long Knit-A-Long – Junction Road

    2021 is the Knit With Attitude Year Long Knit A Long! Every month we celebrate a pattern from the Knit With Attitude Anniversary Collection. To read all about it see the introductory blog post. Next up in the Year Long Knit Along is Junction Road by Natalie Selles. Junction Road is an interestingly structured shawl which starts…

    George Cullen

  • Inspiration and Kits for Sea Mist Shawl by George Cullen
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    Inspiration and Kits for Sea Mist Shawl by George Cullen

    I am really excited to be part of Laine Issue 11. My design Sea Mist appears in the issue next to some other gorgeous designs by some talented designers. My inspiration for the shawl was from trips to the Cornish coast where me and my boyfriend have spent many holidays. We like to walk the…

    George Cullen

  • Inspiration and Kits for Scout Shawl by Florence Spurling
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    Inspiration and Kits for Scout Shawl by Florence Spurling

    What is this dreamy colourwork shawl that has captured everyones imaginations? Well it’s the Scout Shawl by Florence Spurling. This shawl is colourwork heaven! It has a vintage patchwork vibe about it, like an heirloom quilt handed down through the generations. Every inch of this design is covered in different motifs. Geometrics, zig-zags and flower…

    George Cullen

  • A Year Long Knit-A-Long – Sockitude Kits
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    A Year Long Knit-A-Long – Sockitude Kits

    2021 is the Knit With Attitude Year Long Knit A Long! Every month we celebrate a pattern from the Knit With Attitude Anniversary Collection. To read all about it see the introductory blog post. Next up in the Year Long Knit Along is Sockitude by Julie Dubreux. A stunning pair of colourwork knee-highs. Knit in Coopknits Socks Yeah! Coopknits,…

    George Cullen

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