Promoting Yarn Shop Events

Thursday 7th February 2019

Yarn shop owners, and people who attend yarn shop events, this is for you. On my new website, I have a courses page and each month I will feature a selection of 3 events on the Feature facility of my...

Winter Trees Fairisle Throw Pattern – now available

Friday 9th November 2018

This is new!  Here is the...

July Newsletter

Thursday 19th July 2018

I have just sent out the July Newsletter.  In this edition, there is the usual mix of my news, industry news and new yarns. If you want to get these up-dates, please contact me and I will add you to...

Workshops! Spaces!

Tuesday 29th May 2018

Hello there, welcome to the ghost-ship Court Cottage.  The workshops have succumbed to an epidemic of cancellations – so there is a lot of space here in June. This weekend, you can come and...

Copyright. Sigh.

Tuesday 5th December 2017

Copyright is such a tricky issue for indi designers. When you find a breach, it is even harder to know what to do about it, if anything. Recently I found that a woman in a different part of the UK is...

Christmas Workshops 2017: images

Thursday 2nd November 2017

Crocheted Heart Wreath with Lights, Mini Jumpers, ‘Frozen Hearts’ Picture Frames, Icicle  ...

Cables, Bobbles and Beads: the texture events

Monday 16th October 2017

The next Court Cottage events are Cables, Bobbles and Beads, at the end of this month.  The final pattern samples are almost ready – one of the designs is all done, knitted in 4 optional ways...

Knit Camp 2017 and 2018

Saturday 14th October 2017

I think this has been the longest I have ever gone between blogs.  That is mainly because Knit Camp 2017 happened last weekend and most of the 4 weeks prior to that was given over to the final...

2018 Courses

Saturday 16th September 2017

The events for 2018 are now all decided and in the diary and I will add them to the website in October.  If you are on my mailing list, you will automatically get an alert as they go live.  If you...

Brioche Cowls

Friday 19th May 2017

I have two events in June on Brioche Cowls.  This is Brioche knitted in two colours, in the round.  It is stage two of our 2017 Brioche events.  You do not need to have attended the earlier...