Tangled Thoughts

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Category: Design

A modelled pair of socks with a rippling cable pattern up the side, knit in grey yarn with blue, orange and white speckles

Kingfisher

Today I’m bringing you a pair of socks that has everything I love! It’s toe up socks. It’s got a simple pattern that’s easy to learn. It’s got a fun

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A close up on the shoulder of a cowlette knit in brown yarn with a textured slipped stitch pattern on the body and a wide lace border

Feathered Lace

I enjoyed knitting Rinlet, my first DK cowlette, so much I couldn’t wait to knit another one and the tail end of winter seemed like the perfect time to fit

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A pair of mitts with coloured stripes and slipped stitches on the back of the hand

Slipping Up

When I started working on my Elemental Mitts patterns I knew I wanted to make a fifth pattern which combined the colours of the other four and here it is!

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Snow Showers

I’ve really come to enjoy releasing hats for my last pattern of the year. They knit up quickly, figuring out the crown is challenging but fun and you can do

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Crosshatched Hands

I loved the ribbed pattern on Tar-Sgàil Socks so much that I couldn’t resist using it for mitts as well! The design is similar to Aisneach Mitts with the ribbed

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Crosshatched

For Socktober this year, I wanted to design a sock that would be great for everyone. I wanted a pattern that was gender neutral and something with a bit of

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Rib and Lace

I’m feeling sick at the moment so please enjoy my testers projects! You can get 25% off Rinlet with the code StreamSale until 11.59 pm (BST) on the 12th of September 2023.

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A close up on the border of a mosaic knit shawl. It is knit in white and red yarn with a brickwork pattern on the body and herringbone pattern border, displayed on a black mannequin.

Building Bricks

When I set out to design this shawl, I knew I wanted to use two colours, but I didn’t really want to do stripes or something I’d done before. So

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Little Flowers

Sometimes I start working on a design with the complete vision of what I want to make in my head. This was not one of those times. I had a

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Rose Trellis

This shawl is the epitome of “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. I absolutely loved the idea for this shawl when I came up with it. A

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I’m Liz and I'm a Scottish Knitwear designer! I design and write knitting patterns for accessories, produce tutorials and write about what I do!
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Handy Tips

Shoormil – Yardage Calculator

I’m going to preface this by saying that there is no pattern support for the spreadsheet. If you follow the instructions on the spreadsheet you

Notions pouches, tape measure, scissors, scrap yarn and a selection of stitch markers

Notions About Notions

I saw a post on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, about a knitter who had gone on a cruise and only realised once she

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