Are warm woollen mittens one of your favourite things? If so, well today’s your lucky day. Natalie Warner’s newest pattern, released today, is not only warm and woolly, but clever and quick — a knitting quadruple treat! Have you a hot drink to hand? Settle in and I’ll tell you a bit more about the Fond Mittens, the latest pattern from our Something To Knit Together Winter Edition collection.
Read moreBook Review: Cowls by Mina Philipp
If you’ve been following Arnall-Culliford Knitwear any length of time, you’ll know we’re firm believers in the idea that there’s always something new to learn. We are all about patterns and books that empower knitters to be the boss of their own knitting, so we jumped at the chance to review Mina Philipp’s new book, Cowls: A Colourwork Sourcebook & Patterns Inspired by Persia. Mina is a knitwear designer also host of the popular Knitting Expat Podcast.
Read moreTop Tips for Tidy Intarsia!
When you hear the word intarsia, what do you think of? Perhaps jumpers from the eighties with splashy motifs and a bit of mohair (both of which, as it happens, coming very much back into style!)? Maybe it brings up memories of a knitting disaster (as it used to for me)? Or maybe you’ve not come across intarsia —“Intars-WHAT?—before, and you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about! Read on for top tips for perfect intarsia…
Read moreTo Cable Needle or Not To Cable Needle? Four Video Tutorials Let You Decide
One of the things I really like about Natalie Warner’s Assembly Scarf, the first pattern from our Something To Knit Together Winter Edition collection, is how she’s played with scale with the two featured cables. Both are right crossing rope cables, but they’re worked over different numbers of stitches and with different lengths to great effect. If you’ve not knitted cables before, this is an absolutely great project for building you cable confidence. And today, we’re bringing you video tutorials to show you how to work both cables used in the pattern using two methods. Read on!
Read moreThe Assembly Scarf by Natalie Warner
Hello knitters and welcome to December, the most knitterful time of the year (at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere!). The start of this month means it’s time for the release of the very first pattern from our Something To Knit Together Winter Edition collection — say hello to this cosy little number, the Assembly Scarf (that’s a Ravelry link) by Natalie Warner!
Read moreAn Interview with Natalie Warner
We are so looking forward to diving into Something To Knit Together, Winter Edition with you in just over a week’s time, and we hope you are too! To whet your whistle while we wait (try saying that three times fast), today, we’re bringing you an interview with Something To Knit Together, Winter Edition designer Natalie Warner. Natalie was kind enough to answer some questions by email for me last week, and I really enjoyed hearing about her path into designing and her design process. You can catch up with Natalie on Instagram where she is natalieinstitches, on her website natalieinstitches.com, and see her designs on Ravelry.
Read moreSomething to Knit Together, Winter Edition
Winter is coming … and for many of us, it’s going to look very different from years past. Some things, though, are constants for me. As we enter the coldest and darkest part of the year, I get the desire to whip up the squishiest knits I can manage for myself and those I love. And I particularly love to do that knitting in the company of friends. So I am very excited to tell you that, tomorrow, we’re launching a new ebook that really delivers on these fronts: Something to Knit Together, Winter Edition, a new capsule collection with designs by Natalie Warner!
Read moreIncandescent Intarsia with Kaffe Fassett!
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Modern Daily Knitting’s little Field Guides around here. Each time we get news of a new one, there’s excited chatter around A-C Knitwear HQ about just how lush the latest offering is. We eagerly await the first sneak peek for wholesalers, then it’s a matter of counting the days until we can share the beauty with you all. For this latest offering, keeping mum was especially hard. Joyous, riotous, genius — all words we’ve been throwing around to describe Kaffe Fassett’s impeccable, irresistible designs for Field Guide No. 16: Painterly. Buckle your seat belts, this is going to be a wild ride.
Read moreFinding Joy in Socks – and a video tip
I have to admit that my socks isn’t generally the first place I look when I need something to give me an injection of joy! But it has been my go to so far this month…
I’m not talking about my sock drawer, although as a knitter with a penchant for self-striping sock yarn, there is certainly joy to be found there! I am of course talking about my current knitting project: Dambisa Socks by Noma Ndlovu (Etsy link) (Biggerthanlife Knits on Instagram).
Read moreThe Hitchhiker Collection – Now Available in the Online Shop!
I’d be willing to bet that nearly everyone reading this blog has at some point or other encountered, if not made, Martina Behm’s Hitchhiker shawl. Published a decade ago this month, it is a pattern that has had enormous staying power: a fixture of yarn shops, hand-dyers’ show stalls and, of course, our necks! It’s spawned a whole host of clever patterns, and these little masterpieces (along with three brand new ones!) come together to form Martina’s latest book, The Hitchhiker Collection: 20 Knitted Shawls. It’s a cornucopia of delights for shawl lovers!
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