Knitting Up North

Printed Textiles, knitting and crafting

Lizzie’s new hat

Here is my gorgeous little niece modelling her new hat when we took her to the park!It’s a bit big at the moment but I shall just use that time honoured phrase…’she’ll grow into it!’And here she is modelling the hat I knitted for her before she was born – it’s getting a bit tight [...]

Another baby hat…

I finished the lovely baby hat for Lizzie and it went really well. I am amazed how quickly things knit up on circulars!I’m now knitting another one for another friend who is having a baby – soooo exciting!

I get ‘a round’…

Well – due to the bad back and 2 broken toes I am going to be glued to the sofa today. To lessen my pain my Amazon order FINALLY arrived today! It’s only 3 weeks late! It had tried to be delivered once, whilst we were on holiday, but for some reason it has gone [...]

Washing day and baby trousers…

Today is that day I dread – wool washing day!!! How can someone love knitting so much but HATE hand washing wool? I absolutely loathe it – I keep leaving it all in a big pile in the washing basket just hoping that my hubby will do it but he never does! This morning so [...]

Dishcloths

I started knitting dishcloths when I bought the Knitorama book last year. Since then I have only knit about 5 or 6 but I absolutely LOVE using them. I thought it was about time I took a pic of my beloved cloths so here is a picture of my first (far left), one I knit [...]

Rooster bag and Calorimetry

I have finally got round to taking a picture of my Rooster bag knitted from the Rooster pattern book and in Almerino Aran in colour Custard. It was with the left over yarn that I knitted the Knitty pattern Calorimetry from the Winter 2006 edition.I am not too keen on th results of the Calorimetry [...]

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    Craft Fair Banner Part One

    Craft Fair Banner Part Two

    Light Box tutorial coming soon...