Egyptian Crescent

A new pattern now available from Ravelry and my website:

A luxurious crescent shawl inspired by the opulence of ancient Egyptian jewelry.
The color scheme of gold and precious stones is echoed in dibadu’s handpainted 100% silk yarn, Seda Encantada.
The yarn is held double; each color comes in two 50g skeins of slightly different colorways, adding depth and richness when held together.
Knit with three colors: 094 red, 116 yellow and 124 blue. The yarn is available from dibadu.de

Some scenes from around Dublin:

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Coral Reef Project

A fantastic project of my Coral Reef pattern by @slipstitch, with yarns from Helene Magnusson, Renaissance Dyeing and Loret Karman, among many others:

Some Autumnal colours mostly from Farmleigh Garden in The Phoenix Park:

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Kafenion 2

Thanks for your recent comments and likes!
The Kafenion pattern is now available.
Some kits are available from Hedgehog Fibres.


Some images from recent trunkshows at The Constant Knitter Dublin:

Out and about with Donnie:

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cloudy summer

clouds:

flowers:

on the beach:

Dublin gable:

a new pattern called polychromatic:

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summertime

thanks for your recent comments!
here’s a jumble of recent pictures – Donnie is making the most of the long days and I’m still working on the new fresco crescent

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donnie and knitting

fresco crescent, coming soon!

yarn from Renaissance Dyeing:

donnie’s frisbee:


shadowy donnie:

donnie and friends:

chestnut crescent and flowering trees:

spooky tree:

phoenix park:

donnie and bark:

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donnie on the run

donnie had his first big outing at the weekend – here he is flying around on the wet grass at Kilmacurragh botanical gardens in Wicklow:

some plants and knitting:

passion flower and fruit from the walled garden of Dublin’s museum of modern art:

fabulous zauberball at The Constant Knitter:

my palette of Brooklyn tweed loft – I’m doing some colorwork with it:

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donnie’s week

going to the vet for vaccinations:

disappearing in the garden to nibble and gnaw:

donnie-proof fence:

helping out with new pattern in West Yorkshire Spinners yarn:

variation of new pattern in Lang yarn:

blurry and unblocked:

Autumn colours:

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some photos

safavid in wicklow:

Avondale leaf:

stubble and Sugarloaf mountain:

St Patrick’s Cathedral:

Magnolias:

shop windows (the first one is a large photo of Francis Bacon with one of his paintings in the background – in an auctioneer’s wondow):

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December

Rainy days in Dublin:

a trip to Carlow and Kilkenny:


ghosts at Woodstock

Current knitting with Ellie and Ada sock yarn from The Constant Knitter:

souvenir from Istanbul – Suzani embroidery:

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