Brand new website!

It’s been a while, my short hiatus turned into a somewhat longer absence but I’m back again! Not only am I back I also have a new website and that is where my blog will be moving to from now on.

You can find my blog as well as a catalogue of all my patterns and tutorials at www.verilyknits.co.uk

I hope to hear from you over there, as well as the new website I’m also going to have a monthly newsletter where I’ll give details of new patterns and any special offers. You can sign up for the newsletter here: 

A short hiatus

This blog is going to have a holiday for a few weeks, but it will be back before the end of August when it becomes part of my shiny new website! I’m currently working on the website but as well as the blog it will also include a pattern store, photo tutorials and more information about some of the other knitting/technical services I can offer.

So I hope you all have a wonderful summer, mine looks like it will mostly involve wrangling small children and html!

 

 

Fractured Hearts

I realised the other day that I hadn’t yet updated the Fracture MKAL pattern into a single PDF, but it is now done and I had a few requests for written instructions so I have added those too. The final single pattern has been renamed Fractured Hearts and is now available to purchase on Ravelry.

I really enjoyed running my first ever mystery knit-a-long, I was so worried before starting that it came as a bit of a shock how much fun it turned out to be. I am now considering running a mystery knit-a-long every spring, I’m already thinking about possible designs, but there are so many considerations, laceweight again or perhaps 4ply, single colour or multiple colours, and then what elements should I add, lace or cables, twisted stitches or ripples, the possibilities are endless!

Keep an eye on the blog next week as I am planning on a running a little questionaire with regards to KAL’s and would love you input.

New Pattern: Tracks of my Rainbow Tears

Time to start July with a splash of colour, this is my latest pattern – Tracks of my Rainbow Tears. This is a great project for using up small amounts of leftover bright coloured yarn, or you could do like I did and use some West Yorkshire Spinners signature 4ply in shade Rum Paradise.

This is an easy knit, the teardrops are shaped with short rows, but they are simple and it knits up really quickly. It’s knit from end to end so is also completely customisable with regards to length, you’ll need a minimum of 300yds of the main colour and 100yds of contrast colour to get a good sized shawl.

You can purchase the pattern via Ravelry here and there is a 20% discount with coupon code ‘tears’ available until the end of the 4th of July.

New Pattern: Little Roar

Copyright Knit Now

I have a new pattern in the latest issue of Knit Now, this is Little Roar. This little top is knit in Sublime Yarns Evie which is possibly the softest yarn I have ever knit with, seriously it’s like knitting with clouds! The Little Roar pattern is sized from newborn up to 3 years and uses a maximum of two 50g balls of Evie.

Isn’t that the cutest little model that used too!

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Summer Bargains

Merry Dancers Shawl

I usually try to keep my online knitting blog politics free, don’t worry I’m not going to launch into a rant now, but you probably know that the UK last week voted to leave the EU (I voted to remain) and that vote has had a seriously detrimental effect on the value of our currency. So basically if you live outside of the UK but have ever wanted to buy something from here now is the time to do, the value of the £ is so poor you can get an absolute bargain.

Now I’ve heard people say that the feel bad taking advantage of this fact… please don’t, the money you spend still has the same value to us here and if our economy gets any worse we will need all the money we can earn.

So if you’ve ever thought about buying one of my patterns now is definitely the time to do so, you can see them all here and I am planning on releasing a new shawl pattern at the end of the week too. Also don’t forget about UK indie yarn dyers and shops, there’s some amazing yarn available here, why not try something new.

Rosaline for ages 3m – 8yr

 

Sweaters in Summer

Hello! It’s been a while, I’ve been working on a couple of super secret projects with quite tight deadlines so I put myself on a bit of a self-imposed internet ban, its amazing how easy it is to waste hours of your time faffing about on the net.

But now that I’m down to just one deadline project I am thinking about what to start next, now it may be summer and the sun has finally decided to appear here in the UK but I am thinking about winter and these rather lovely balls of Lopi yarn, isn’t it pretty and so squooshy! I actually have no idea what I am going to do with these yet, possibly a colourwork yoke sweater or a stripey vest, but I thought that if I took a photo it would perhaps inspire me and then I really liked the photo and had to share!

Right back to the knitting, no summer vests for me, I am currently working on a super warm, cabled shawl that will be published in December!

 

New Pattern: Leaf Anatomy

It’s a cold and damp day so here’s a bright rainbow shawl to brighten things up.

This is my latest pattern Leaf Anatomy, knit in 4ply / fingering weight yarn it uses from 500 – 1200 yards of yarn. My sample was knit in Knitting Goddess 4ply Britsock in the printer ink colourwheel shades, I used 600yds of yarn and the finished shawl is a large 53″ wide x 33″ deep.

Leaf Anatomy is available to purchase now, and if you use the coupon code ‘leaf’ you can get an introductory 25% discount. As always if you decide to knit this pattern I would love to see a picture.

Little Knitting

The sun has finally arrived and it is getting warmer here, and for some reason as soon as it gets to late spring / early summer all my knitting ideas seem to be baby related. I have no idea why this is but baby items are pretty good summer knitting projects as they are usually quite small so you don’t end up with a pile of knitting on your lap boiling your knees!

I’m quite lucky in that I do have recipients for any baby knitting, my nephew and niece are 9 months old, and I’m hoping that if I do come up with any new designs they’ll be willing models. At the moment all my new ideas seem to be for little dresses, as you can possibly see from the pic I took of my current sketchpad, I need to have a think about some more boy appropriate items too.

If you too are thinking about knitting baby clothes I do already have a few patterns, including Tigs which you can see below, or you can view all of my patterns here. Oh and there will be a couple of baby additions to my pattern catalogue in the next few weeks, I just need to get some photos take.

New Pattern: Belieu Shawl

 

photo copyright Practical Publishing

I have a pattern in the latest issue of Knit Now, this is the Belieu Shawl. The challenge was to design something using a max of 100g of Knit Picks Palette and this was what I come up with, the shawl above is knit in shades Suede and Masala which I think go really well together.