Introducing my new blanket design for the end of the year, 2023. I've called it the Winter Walk Blanket, because in my mind as I was planning it, I was imagining walking in the woods near our cottage, during the early days of winter. I imagined that the golds, oranges and russets of Autumn were… Continue reading The Winter Walk Blanket

UPDATE - THE PATTERN IS NOW AVAILABLE IN BOTH MY ETSY AND RAVELRY SHOPS Here we go - it’s July, so the Christmas countdown is upon us! Actually, relax - it isn’t. But designing a new blanket pattern for Christmas 2023 most definitely is! There needs to be time to design and make the blanket,… Continue reading The Christmas Baubles Blanket

Hello again. Those of you who are familiar with my crochet patterns, will know that I love Granny Squares. They feature in almost all of my designs in some form or another, and more often than not are joined with some form of Join as You Go method. In the Beach Walk Blanket above, I… Continue reading Continuous Join as You Go

Hello again. Here we are halfway through March already and my first blanket of the year is done and dusted. It’s a celebration of the blues this time, something which I had to challenge myself to do, as the colour blue has not featured much in any of my designs to date. I can’t really… Continue reading Yarn List for the Moody Blues Blanket

It's here at last - the pattern has just been uploaded to my Etsy shop and all the NINE accompanying videos are on my You Tube channel. You will find the links to these videos included in the pattern. For all who rushed out and stocked up on the yarns as soon as I posted… Continue reading The Vintage Florals Blanket 2023

Hello again! Let me introduce you to my new crochet design - the Blair Atholl Blanket! By the River Tilt So, Blair Atholl is a small village situated in one of the most stunning areas of Scotland, Highland Perthshire. It’s less than an hour and half’s drive from where we live and we’ve been popping… Continue reading The Blair Atholl Blanket

Here we are again - another day, another new pattern. That’s what it feels like anyway! Hard on the heels of the Touch of Frost blanket comes the Bonfire blanket. Whew, it’s been intense this past few weeks, writing the patterns, then checking and proofreading. My eyes are feeling it from the time spent at… Continue reading The Bonfire Blanket

Hello, and welcome to my new blog post, all about the Touch of Frost Blanket - my Christmas Crochet pattern for 2022, written in July - during the hottest temperatures on record in the UK! It just so happens that as I type this, it's a sweltering 30 degrees here on the east coast of… Continue reading The Touch of Frost Blanket

Spots n Stripes New Version Hello again, My latest project has been born out of necessity, to keep one step ahead of the game when it comes to the thorny problem of discontinued yarns. When I publish a new pattern, the Yarn List which accompanies it is exactly the yarn and colours I’ve used to… Continue reading The Spots n Stripes Blanket – revisited

Hello again. Here we are in cold and snowy April, after a warm and sunny March. But at least the cold weather has kept me indoors and I’ve been able to write up and publish this latest pattern collection in record time! I’m sure many of you have seen the Little Gem blanket over the… Continue reading The Gem Blanket Collection