Knitting Up North

Printed Textiles, knitting and crafting

We have a winner…

It was very close but Pug number 3 won by one vote!  I’ve picked a winner at random using that fab little random number generator and the winner is comment number….. 7 – Gillian from Nottingham Congratulations Gillian, as soon as pug number 3 gets made I’ll send you one! I’ve decided to name this [...]

Cuddly Pug competition…

I’ve decided it’s about time I did another Cuddly pug design, don’t you think? All the designs are based on drawings I did for my pug jewellery back in 2006, I turned them in to Cuddly Pugs in 2008 as a cute little extra for my shop but they proved so popular I’ve been selling [...]

One week to my next fair…

It’s only one week to my next craft fair – Love Craft and only two weeks until Spring Fling – and usually at this point I’d be running around printing like a crazy lady and getting ready but I’m not – it feels so strange! I’m still preparing myself for the possibility that I might [...]

Sublime stitching…

Here are the pictures as promised and also a couple of bonus pug shots – the girls were just being too gorgeous!  Here is my stitch sampler first: I went for quite bright colours for this – my favourite bit is the lime and orange tic-tac inspired border!  Here is the Born to Stitch embroidery, [...]

  • Tutorials:

    Craft Fair Banner Part One

    Craft Fair Banner Part Two

    Light Box tutorial coming soon...