The Beehive is a stroller blanket is a nice sized project – not too ambitious but enough to keep you busy. And the Beehive Baby Blanket is a great pattern – a little bit of detailing in between some easy knitting, and some colour changes and contrasts to make it interesting. The basic stitches form a honeycomb-like pattern on the knit fabric. A...

Brioche knitting is quite a complicated technique but the things you can do with patterns are so gorgeous that I’ve been wanting to learn how to knit brioche for ages. Over the past few months we have had Weekly Wednesday Zoom knitting mornings. Jane Renton has done some mini classes covering all sorts of knitting techniques in these sessions. ...

“Good Karma” is a relatively easy and quick shawl knit project. The shaping is straightforward, and you only change colour once the yarn is finished. Some gentle yarn overs create edging detail, and the trellis stitch is a simple pattern repeat. It’s a good project for a beginner or a relaxed knit for a more experienced knitter.

“I’ve got Sunshine” is a wonderfully easy and gratifyingly colourful knit project. It’s knit completely in garter stitch and the colours do all the work. There are no complex techniques so it’s a great project for a beginner or an easy tv knit for a more experienced knitter.

I like to dress in layers, so wearing a short-sleeved or sleeveless top over a long-sleeve shirt really works

This v-neck vest is a cute pattern if you have little people in your life. A vest is also a practical garment for tiny people and toddlers – easy to wear and keeps them warm when the weather is in-between. It’s also a quick and pretty easy knit. And you can glam it up with a crazy

Mittens are a great accessory to have on hand (pun intended!) and I’m a big fan of the fingerless mitten variety. I particularly love this very light and soft pair knitted in our Cowgirlblues Kidsilk yarn. They are a relatively easy knit for an intermediate knitter, with a small challenge in the thumb “sleeve” if that’s your flavour. These fing...

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The name is incongrous since it’s clearly not Luke in the picture. Whilst on holiday with dear friends their middle son Luke asked me to knit him the perfect poncho. His favourite colours are green and orange, which freaked me out, but with the collection of odds and ends I happened to have in my knitting bag this poncho was born and I’ve grown...

I don’t know about you, but I usually have several projects on the go. At least one of them needs to be an easy knit that doesn’t require too much concentration, so that I have an excuse to relax and watch TV or a movie and keep my hands busy at the same time. The Pin-Stripe Scarf is one of those patterns.

This is a basic beanie, knit in the round, and has a nice formula that you can easily tweak to suit any stitch pattern.

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Julia is a lovely introduction to stranded colour work for an intermediate level knitter. It’s a simple straight knit piece without shaping, and you’re only ever working with two different colours.

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Alyssa is our best selling ready-to-wear product. It was originally machine-knitted but has been so popular that after many requests we’ve developed a hand knitting pattern.

This is my first attempt at both knitting and designing a jersey (you might say “sweater”). So I wanted something really simple, hence the Easy Peasy Pullover. I was inspired by a pattern in Trui magazine and my initial idea was to try and knit their jersey. But the pattern in the mag was in Dutch and I couldn’t quite understand the instruction...

Many of our hand knitting patterns are inspired by our ready-to-wear

The shawl is worked as a triangle, starting in the centre of the long edge. It’s a fairly simple pattern based on a “half” granny square, and the colour changes and repeats create the detail.

The poncho is knit as a single flat rectangle then folded and stitched closed along the sholder seam to form the neck opening. It’s a fairly complicated knit stitch pattern with a repeating tuck stitch to create the waffle texture.

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The cowgirlblues Kidsilk yarn is one of our best sellers. Customers love the delicate look and feather-light feel. And the colour range is extremely tempting. Knowing what to knit with it is not always that easy. Since it’s a luxury yarn people are often loathe to experiment, thinking it should be saved for some magical project that never quite...