Pattern Inspiration

Ebb and Flow - a new collection by Anni Howard

Posted: June 06, 2017

Hello! Today I wanted to tell you about something we've mentioned in our newsletter but haven't talked about on here - Anni Howard's latest new collection, Ebb and Flow, a range of knit and crochet designs inspired by the bleak beauty of the Essex coastline and river estuaries. Eden Cottage Yarns are used in three of the four designs. Here's the whole collection together - you can really see the soft, bleak palette and rich textures, and I think they work beautifully with my yarns - I love bleak landscapes and barely-there colours, and find them incredibly compelling. Strood Strood is...

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Celebrating two years of The Bletchley Collection

Posted: December 20, 2016

In the intervening two years (two years!!) since The Bletchley Collection was published a gallery of beautiful Bletchley projects has developed, and I really just wanted to share some of the lovely things with you.

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New pattern alert! (Cornhill)

Posted: December 09, 2016

Afternoon! I hope today is treating you well. Seeing as it's a Friday and I'm blitzing through admin today, one of the things I had on the to do list was 'publish Cornhill'. So it's done. You can find it here on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cornhill It's a very simple shawl (or scarf) which uses 400m of each of two colours of 4ply. Or you could use different contrast colours which you could use smaller amounts for. (sorry about the grimace - it was very sunny) The rows do get long towards the end but they are very easy and it's worth...

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Knit. Play. Cowl.

Posted: November 03, 2016

Today on the blog I've created a feature on the cowls from Inspiration Knits (aka Louise Zass-Bangham)'s book Knit Play Colour, in anticipation of her having my yarn at Yarnporium this weekend. Check it out for some gorgeous pattern inspiration.