Knitting-a-GoGo

26/10/2026

Here is the back view of the 1970s style vest top I recently knitted using the gorgeous Norfolk Horn wool from Jennifer Monahan 🧶🧶🧶

This was a fairly quick knit since the fair isle pattern was only knitted on the front part of the vest.

I knitted the vest in two pieces and seamed it at the sides and shoulders.

This meant I purled the wrong side of the fair isle rows since I knitted back and forth rather than in the round.

I originally learnt to fair isle this way since a lot of my vintage 60s/70s patterns used this knitting method for colour work.

It wasn’t until recent years I discovered the traditional fair isle technique of knitting in the round and also knitted using this method too.

I don’t particularly have a preference for how I knit my fair isle and am happy to purl wrong side rows if my knitting pattern isn’t designed for knitting in the round 🤗

23/10/2026

Back in September I purchased the gorgeous Wensum knitting kit from Jennifer Monahan during my visit to unravel… a festival of yarn

I loved the colours that were hand dyed by Jenn and the beautiful fair isle pattern she designed.

I was particularly drawn to Jenn’s stand because she used Norfolk Horn wool.

I’m a huge lover of British wool and had never knitted with Norfolk Horn yarn before so this kit was a great way to try it out.

Once I got the kit home, I decided to adapt the original kit pattern to a 1970s style vest top since that is more my style. However, I did want to keep Jenn’s original fair isle patterns and colour scheme in my adapted design.

I’m so happy with how this vest top has turned out and have been wearing it lots since I knitted it 💕💕💕

The wool is gorgeous and if you’ve never knitted with Norfolk Horn yarn before and love British wool, I highly recommend visiting Jenn’s website and purchasing some of her gorgeous yarn.

Lastly, I’d like to thank Jenn for creating such beautiful wool with the Norfolk Horn Breed 🧶

If you’d like to see a vlog of this make, please visit my YouTube channel (link in bio) where I also share a day trip out for my Small Flock Yarns biz 🐑

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16/10/2026

When I was at the unravel… a festival of yarn in September, I got to meet the wonderful Jeanette Sloan BEM and see her beautiful stand with all the lovely beadwork she incorporates into her knitting designs 🧶

I couldn’t resist the kit with the orange and pink colour combo and I found time to knit it last weekend.

It was nice getting back into knitting with beads again and I now have a new scarf to wear! 😃

14/10/2026

I really love the box pleat shoulder detail on this recent top I knitted.

In my 15 years of designing knitwear, I had never designed this style of sleeve cap before so it was exciting to try something different!

This style of sleeve cap was very popular in the 1940s and I wanted to design a 1940s inspired top with this gorgeous Portuguese wool from Lopo Xavier

Check out my latest YouTube video where I vlog about this knit 🧶

12/10/2026

09/10/2026

Last October I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing .lx in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 and I’ve had great fun recently knitting a top with the wool I purchased 🧶🧶🧶

08/10/2026

This time last year I was in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 where I got to visit the wonderful Lopo Xavier and purchased this gorgeous Portuguese wool from them.

Several weeks ago, I gave a sneak peek of a wip of the garment I’d been working on with this lovely wool and I look forward to sharing photos soon of what I made 🧶🧶🧶

25/09/2026

I had a lovely gift delivered to me in my studio this week from Ed Reif which is a book he has written about Fair Isle whilst he was living there during the Global Pandemic.

I met Ed and Sarah the other weekend at Findon Sheep Fair which I was attending with Small Flock Yarns

We soon discovered we had a mutual love of Fair Isle and I said how I plan to visit one day 🧶🧶🧶

Ed told me he had written a book about this wonderful place so it was really lovely of him to send me this book.

Thanks Ed! I’m looking forward to reading it this weekend 💕💕💕

21/08/2026

The back of my latest design using the Lopo Xavier Portuguese wool has now been knitted 🤗

I’m looking forward to spending this weekend knitting up the front 🧶🧶🧶

17/08/2026

Starting a fun new knitting project with some wool I purchased from .lx when I visited last October that I look forward to sharing the progress with you 🤗