Adriafil was started in 1911 as a small spinning mill in Italy. They now produce a 6 monthly knitting patterns magazine called “Dritto &...

During the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Janet Stimson designed and uploaded her FREE pattern to Ravelry, for the Rainbow Indigo...

I've got a blog post coming soon on why you wouldn't want to buy most superwash yarn, but I have to confess to having owned and dyed some...

When I was a teenager, I decided to hook a rug. Never having ever made a rug, I went to the local craft supply shop, bought some (fairly...

The 'Snowcap Cable Cardigan' is a Knit Collage pattern by Cheryl Kubat that I decided to try with some of my own really chunky handspun...

Any natural plant dyer is constantly on the look out for new colours, whether from seeds, nuts, bark, leaves, plants, lichen, fungi, you...

If you have ever grown Woad for dyeing blue with the leaves, you will know that there are an awful lot of seeds produced as well. In...

Last year I took the plunge and bought a large electric drum carder to replace my hand-cranked Barnett carder that had served me well for...

Everyone who hand-spins and hand-dyes their own wool will know the 'itch' to want to make something with it instead of just selling it...

Some years I wouldn't bother with acorns as a dye material because the English Oaks don't always produce much of a crop. This year has...

My latest Norwegian handknit pattern is taken from the book Nordic Knitting by Susanne Pagoldh. This is a collection of over 30 patterns,...

This is 'Crottle' lichen, gathered in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. An ancient traditional dye, also used in years gone by, in the...

The many shades of green in the countryside right now are sometimes breath taking. There are points along our road where I slow the car...

Autumn is here, Summer is over, Winter is coming...so whilst there are dye plants to be gathered in the lanes, I am into 'squirrel...

With Spring in the air, it's time for some hand-spun garden twine. Swaledale fleeces are what I use for this type of project. Swaledale...

This is what I did with the ivy-leaf dyed wool (see my other post on the dyeing proceedure). This art-yarn also includes wool dyed with...

This is my latest Norwegian hand-spun, hand-knit for Edward Bear. I thought this time I would write about the construction of his...

I don't want to sound like a stuck record, but the pictures don't do this justice. As I sit here typing this, my back is wet from...

Coreopsis seeds will germinate quite easily. Here they are in my garden mid-September. If you have watched the video, you will recognise...

This doesn't exactly qualify as a 'colour of Northern Ireland' although possibly kidney beans could grow here, I don't know. I never grew...