Kath Andrews

This time next week we’ll be getting ready to welcome visitors to TexStyle at Manchester Central.

We are on stand H6 - in the middle of the hall. There will be a lovely range of 50 different hand knitting designs on display with printed patterns available for all of them.

Come & say hello!

The lace patterns in Lorelai Wrap are fun & funky (circles anyone?), but the overall construction is simple.

Worked in 1 piece with a constant stitch count (91 sts). There are no joins or stitches to pick up & you can use circular or straight 4.5mm needles.

Available now as an individual pattern.

Lorelai Wrap is now online! You can find it on my website, Payhip & Ravelry.

Originally published in issue 218 of The Knitter, it is worked in 1 piece, the pattern is both charted & fully written.

The yarn is Jamiesons of Shetland Ultra Lace which is beautiful & lofty, worked on 4.5mm needles.

There will always be an element of Thing 3 inside me, and this t-shirt and wig remind me of the joy of dressing up for World Book Day. Today I am feeling grateful for all the people I've shared World Book Days with over the years, and for everyone who has helped me bring my books into the world.

I reached out to Kath to tech edit my first jumper pattern and I’m very glad I did. The jumper is graded for 10 sizes and Kath painstakingly reviewed every number helping me to find errors and ensure consistency. In addition she utilised her extensive designing experience to bring suggestions for readability and knitability leaving me a lot more confident about bringing this first jumper pattern out to the public. Kath was great about price and time estimations up front and keeping me informed along the way and in my view the service was definitely money well spent.

Did you know I’m a certified technical editor for knitting patterns? I competed my course last November having trained with Carol from Cool Wool School.

The pic shows my first testimonial from a client.

If you need a tech editor for your knitting patterns please do get in touch!

Let’s Go Round Again Having finally blocked my size four 4ply sample of What Do Points Make? I have sewn some very small side seams and woven in all the ends. It's come out larger than the laceweight version in both length and width, but not ridiculously so. This 4ply yarn (Little Bird Sock from LottieKnits) is a gorgeously bouncy yarn with 365m to 100g so it's slightly thicker than most 4ply yarns which tend to be 400m to 100g so this might be partly it's come out a little bigger than expected. I absolutely love it.

This week's blog post, "Let's Go Round Again", is now available. Have a read and see what I'm (re)knitting!

There are just two places left on my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche knitting workshop at @thewoolmontyshow. The show is being held at Magna on June 13-14 and my workshop is on Sunday 14th, 10.30-12.30. You can book on the show website.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus - Happy St David’s Day!

Lorelai Wrap is now available as a single pattern pdf download!

You can find it on my website and in my Payhip and Ravelry stores.

Worked in one piece using Jamiesons of Shetland Ultra Lace on 4.5mm needles it is light, airy and elegant.

At Last I completed my 4-ply version of What Do Points Make? late last year, but with the reduction of space in the lounge with the Christmas tree up and all the busy-ness at the start of the year, I have only recently got around to blocking it. I have to admit that pinned out it looks like a large pair of trousers, but, once it is released from the blocking boards, I will fold the narrow pieces over, sew some side seams, weave the ends in and it will be a loose flowing throw-over.

This week's blog post, "At Last", is now available!

I have finally blocked my 4ply version of What Do Points Make?! It’s a little bigger than the laceweight version but not much (147.5 x 114cm instead of 130 x 108cm). Made on the same size needles as the laceweight version (4.5mm).

Looking forward to the weather warming up so I can wear it!

Thanks!

Am Byth MKAL Am Byth, the seventh MKAL from Kath Andrews Designs and Yarn O’clock, is a beret-style hat in four sizes worked from the centre of the crown down to the brim.Am Byth means ‘forever’ in Welsh, and this...

2/2 The pattern has 4 sizes & all use less than 100g of DK. There are some cool techniques such as a pinwheel cast on & closed ring cables as we liked our mkals to give knitters something they might not have tried before.

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Am Byth was the mystery knitalong for 2023 with Yarn O’clock.

As with most of our mkals we didn’t even tell folk what they would be making & the 1st clue didn’t help a lot as we began in the centre of the crown!
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Blackpool Rocks! We had a great time in Blackpool at the North West Winter Wool Festival last weekend. Being the first show of the season it was particularly exciting to catch up with other vendors who we haven't seen for a few months and also meet some new ones and make new friends! Shirley and Trevor were very organised and great hosts for the event. We didn't venture as far as the piers or the tower as the hotel the show was held in was at the far north end of Blackpool, but we had some bracing walks along the promenade and enjoyed some great chips and mushy peas.

This week's blog post, "Blackpool Rocks!", is now available.

Showing you our stand at the @northwestwinterwoolfestival and how near we are to the entrance! We’re on stand B9.

We’re all set up and ready for the North West Winter Wool Festival tomorrow and Sunday. If you’ve got an advance ticket do remember to download your free Seaside Winter Cosy pattern!

Electric Fences Mock Me – Sue Finch Electric Fences Mock Me . . Sue Finch is the author of Magnifying Glass, Welcome to the Museum of a Life, and Vortex Over Wave. She loves the coast, peculiar things, and the scent of ice-cream free…

Electric Fences Mock Me – Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social

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Into the Vortex was the 2021 MKAL with Yarn O’clock. The original used RiverKnits Chimera & Nene 4ply yarns on 4.5mm needles (bottom right on 2nd pic). I think it’s also working up really nicely on RiverKnits DK Chimera & WYSpinners Fleece on 5.5mm needles.

Lorelai Wrap is all printed and ready for its debut as an individual pattern at the North West Winter Wool Festival in Blackpool this weekend!

And Then There Were Two As if by magic - a second sock appeared! Well, not magic obviously, by spending some time knitting. It's funny that many people experience what is known as 'second sock syndrome', where they they will happily zip through making the first sock of a pair, but stall on the second. I seem to have the opposite. Once one sock is made, the other wants to get done and make the socks ready for use. It's also helpful that this past week we have been taking things a little more gently due to a nasty throat/chest virus thing that got me first and then moved on to my lovely wife.

This week's blog post, "And Then There Were Two", is now available!

2/2 The pdf of Lorelai Wrap will be available online this week & I will have printed copies with me at the North West Winter Wool Festival in Blackpool this weekend.

Yesterday Jo kindly agreed to model my Lorelai Wrap ready for its relaunch as an individual pattern, having first been published in The Knitter.

Knit flat with 4.5mm needles & Jamiesons Of Shetland Ultra Lace this wrap is the perfect extra layer for warmth & elegance.
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Ice Diamond Mitts Keep your hands cosy, yet elegant, with long lacy mitts that knit up quickly in the round. This pattern is in three sizes, with charted and fully written options.Finished Measurements Small - Tween (M...

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There are three sizes in the pattern and they are worked on 4mm and 4.5mm needles so they knit up quickly!

The pattern is available from my website, Payhip and Ravelry stores and Lovecrafts.

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Ice Diamond Mitts were originally designed following a request from Anne at @yarnoclock2 to create a pattern using a worsted weight roving yarn.

They are long mitts which extend past the wrist keeping you cosy despite the lacy design.
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Texstyle is just over a month away! It's a new show held at Manchester Central.

If you haven't already got a ticket & would love to be in the running for a free pair of tickets, follow my page & comment here or on my blog to let me know! I’ll let the lucky winners know this time next week.

Learning how to knit a true moebius is great fun & opens up lots of possibilities.

I am running a moebius knitting workshop at @northwestwinterwoolfestival in Blackpool on Sun 15th Feb, 1-3.30pm. Tickets for the workshop are £36 including handouts, yarn & needles.

Contact me to book your place!

Reaching the End So, I did it. I finally finished the first sock last night. Well, almost. I still need to graft the remaining 12 stitches at the toe. This sock has a graft that is at 90 degrees to the usual one. Instead of joining the remaining stitches top and bottom along the top of the toes, this one decreases more (which is why I only have 12 stitches left rather than 24) then joins the left and right stitches together down the centre of the toes. I can't remember where I first came across this toe shape for socks, but it works really well.

This week's blog post, "Reaching the End", is now available.

I started reading The Magical Knitting Pattern Book by Tian Connaughton last night & finished it this today.

It was exactly the book I needed to read right now - set around knitting with wonderfully warm characters & an intriguing mystery too!

Highly recommend!

One Step At A Time I went to my local yarn shop's (Yarn O'clock) social evening last week and, as I'd hoped, made some good progress on the sock. The gusset decreases are now completed and I'm on the main part of the foot. In theory it shouldn't take long now to finish this sock, but that only works if you actually pick it up and I haven't done any more on it since last Wednesday! Why not? Well, I've been working on my new design which should also have been nearing completion. Except I did a stitch count when I was partway through the armhole decreases only to find I was one stitch over what I should have had.

This week's blog post, "One Step At A Time", is now available.