Travelknitter

One of the knitting highlights of last year was surely the publication of Karie Westermann’s This Thing of Paper.  I had backed the project in the early days when it was crowdsourced through Kickstarter.  I’ve known Karie for a few years now, so I knew the book would be something great.  I mean, a knitting […]

Happy new year everyone! I hope your 2018 is off to a good start.  For me the new year always means planning my yarn shows for the year, and putting together my annual blog post of the main shows around the UK. The first show for the year is Waltham Abbey on January 21st, and […]

Many of you will already be aware that it is currently Wovember, the month that is all about celebrating wool.  This year the theme is “Woolness – Where Wool Meets Wellness”, and “Woolness = Wellness” is the prompt for day 2 of the Yarn in the City Instagram Challenge. I wasn’t planning on writing this […]

Thank you so much for your entries to the Travelknitter / KnitShareLove From Dorset With Love giveaway.  I structured the competition from a purely selfish perspective: so I could read about all your wonderful road trips!  It seems like such a long time since I’ve been on a trip myself, and as soon as the […]

Some of you may already have noticed that Clare Devine has released a new collection of patterns, From Dorset With Love.  Clare has a way of  coming up with wonderful patterns with special details that are always completely wearable.  From Dorset With Love is inspired by a life-changing road trip that Clare made to Dorset […]

Happy new year everyone!  I hope your 2017 is off to a good start. My 2017 has been great so far: I’ve just been back in London for 2 days after returning from a whirlwind trip to Australia.  It was pretty amazing, and now my head is buzzing with all sorts of thoughts, ideas, and […]

Where has the year gone?  It seems I blinked and missed it!  It just means that now we’ve reached autumn, the knitters’ favourite time of year, and it’s peak yarn show season.  Being a solo yarn dyer I try to plan out my year’s schedule carefully, but sometimes it’s a bit like buses that all […]

Here we are at September 1st already.  For those of you here in the northern hemisphere, I hope you had a fabulous sunny summer.  And for those of you in the south, I hope you’ve had a wonderfully woolly winter! My own summer has been busy but enjoyable.  I’ve recently launched two new colourways (if […]

The Etsy shop is shut, the bags are (almost) packed, and the excitement is high: this weekend will see Travelknitter yarns at Fibre-East in Bedfordshire for the first time. I’m getting just a little bit excited about this now – too excited to type properly actually – so I’ll keep it brief! I’ll be bringing […]

In my last post I shared news about Clare Devine’s stunning new mini-collection of sock patterns, The Travel Trio.  I’m still ridiculously excited about the London Skies socks, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be casting on for a pair this weekend.  I’m heading on a roadtrip, so the timing is perfect.  As much as I’d […]

Designer Clare Devine has just released a brand new pattern collection, and I’m so excited!  The Travel Trio features three travel-inspired sock patterns, each designed in travel-inspired yarn.  The patterns are all designed to be perfect travel projects themselves, and are reflective of Clare’s recent move to Australia from the UK. Clare says, I love […]

After the detour to visit The Yarn Dispensary in Faversham (see last post), we headed on to Margate for a weekend away by the coast. For those of you who are reading this from far-flung places, Margate is a quintessentially English seaside resort town in Kent, just a short trip outside London.  Like many seaside […]