Hello and thanks for your visits and comments. Hope you are enjoying the Autumn (or Spring) colours!
A new pattern called Gentle Waves – it’s an easy knit with an introduction to dropped stitches.
Some recent photos of walks with Donnie:
Archive for the ‘wicklow’ Category
October photos
Posted in colour, donnie, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, knit, nature, new pattern, pattern, textile, travel, wicklow, yarn on October 6, 2021| 6 Comments »
Renaissance Stripes and colour inspirations
Posted in colour, decoration, design, donnie, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, knit, nature, pattern, sea, textile, travel, water, wicklow, yarn on August 4, 2021| 4 Comments »
Some new photos of my ~Renaissance Stripes pattern – intarsia knitting with naturally dyed laceweight yarn from Renaissance Dyeing.
Francis Bacon studio, transferred to Dublin:
Botanic Gardens Dublin:
Chester Beatty Library:
Emo Court:
Seaside:
Phoenix Park:
Wicklow:
Japanese Maple:
summertime
Posted in colour, decoration, design, donnie, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, knit, nature, new pattern, pattern, sea, textile, travel, water, wicklow, wildlife, wip, yarn on June 17, 2021| 10 Comments »
mystery knit along
Posted in colour, decoration, design, donnie, dublin, flowers, garden, inspiration, knit, nature, pattern, textile, travel, wicklow, wip, yarn on May 28, 2021| 3 Comments »
Some pictures of the recent mystery knit-along, and recent walks in Dublin, Wicklow and Tullynally, Westmeath:
This was the original prototype, followed by some images of photoshopping to try to finalise the pattern:
we’ve had some sunny weather
Posted in colour, donnie, dublin, flowers, inspiration, nature, travel, wicklow, wildlife on May 3, 2021| 6 Comments »
Happy New Year!
Posted in donnie, knit, nature, travel, wicklow on December 31, 2020| 11 Comments »
Some Holiday walks with Donnie, including a snowy surprise on Christmas Eve, on windswept Lugnaquilla Mountain, County Wicklow:
Glenmallure, one of the valleys below, had a calm spring-like atmosphere:
Emo House County Laois:
the Beach near Killiney, with evidence of ancient volcanic activity:
Spring
Posted in colour, decoration, design, donnie, dublin, estonia, flowers, garden, inspiration, knit, nature, textile, wicklow, wip, yarn on March 23, 2020| 5 Comments »
I hope you are keeping well!
Some pictures from Hooks and Yarn in Amsterdam, (I did some workshops there recently):
Texel island:
Spring colours in Dublin:
Some intriguing silk yarn from Dibadu
Avondale Co. Wicklow:
knitting, donnie, flowers, building & trees
Posted in colour, decoration, design, dublin, flowers, garden, inspiration, knit, nature, textile, wicklow, wip, yarn on September 28, 2019| 10 Comments »
happy St.Patrick’s day!!
Posted in colour, donnie, dublin, flowers, home, inspiration, nature, sea, water, wicklow, wip, yarn on March 17, 2017| 10 Comments »
mossy oak:
lichen:
cabled bark:
beach:
sand patterns:
impressionist donnie:
mountain top:
currently knitting with Rennaissaince dyeing:
and Brooklyn Tweed:
chestnut crescent – mystery KAL 5
Posted in donnie, knit, wicklow on February 6, 2017| 13 Comments »
some photos from the designing and knitting of this pattern:
yarn:
first swatch:
rip:
start again – parts 1 – 3 of first version, not happy with it:
start another one – parts 1 & 2 of second version:
photoshopping ideas for part 3:
working on part 3:
assistance with yarn selection:
not happy with part 3: 
rip back to part 2:
final version of part 3:
part 4 finished:
photographic assistant:
photos in Wicklow – finished!:
high speed Donnie:
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