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Designing relaxing, fun and stylish knitting patterns that allow anyone to knit and experience the positive impact that knitting and crafting can have on our mental health and wellbeing.

05/09/2026

Everywhere you look at the moment we’re reminded that it is indeed Pumpkin Spice season.

And whether you are a fan of it or not, you are likely to be a fan of grabbing a coffee/tea/hit chocolate from your favourite coffee shop.

But if you’re taking that cup out as you walk to work or as you walk round the park there are two potential issues: the cup is hot and, if it’s chilly or windy out, your fingers can get cold!

However, my Pumpkin Handy Cup Cosy solves that. It separates your hand from the cup and the pocket keeps your fingers warm!

This, and my other Handy Cup Cosy designs, are really easy scrappy colourwork projects. They’re pretty and practical, they use up left over yarn, they’re quick to knit, they’re easy to customise and they are perfect for gifting.

So if you want to add a little practical prettiness to your Pumpkin Spiced whatever, you can buy the patten in my Ravelry Store (you can find the link in my Pattern Stores Link in my profile and in my stories), and currently it has 20% until September 10th!

Happy Knitting!

It’s Patterns To Knit This Weekend time again and this week I give you some of my best selling autumn patterns so that y...
04/09/2026

It’s Patterns To Knit This Weekend time again and this week I give you some of my best selling autumn patterns so that you too can chill and get cosy!

There’s Hip To Be Infinity Squared which is a lovely DK block textured infinity cowl that is simple and relaxing to knit, perfect for taking out and about with you, and versatile to style. There are two versions: one with a provisional cast on for the complete infinity experience and one where you just cast on as you see fit and sew it together. Either way looks good and you’ll need 500m of yarn and 4mm needles either way!

Scarf Number 1 may have originally been a 4ply pattern (still is and quite cosy in a nice woolly 4ply), but I’ve also added a DK version to the pattern for added autumnal cosiness. The pattern is simple: alternating stockinette and twisted eyelets surrounded by an integrated icord edge. It’s relaxing to knit at home or on your travels, but has enough going on to banish the idea that simple equals boring! And depending on the version you want to knit, you’ll need 535m of 4ply/5mm needles and 500m of DK/4mm needles.

I don’t know about you but every coffee chain email I’ve had lately says the same thing: Pumpkin Spice! And I have a cute little cup cosy pattern to accessorise your takeout cup or resusable cup/flask. But Pumpkin Handy Cup Cosy isn’t just designed to keep your hand away from the hot cup! The little pocket means you can keep your fingers warm against the cold too! Perfect for gifting and perfect for you! It’s a scrappy DK project so grab your autumnal coloured leftovers and 4mm needles for this one!

Hip To Be Squared is one of those scarf patterns that suits everyone! It’s simple and relaxing to knit and perfect for gifting to anyone in your family as well as knitting yourself one . It’s easy to adapt too and I’ve seen customer versions with tassels, pops of colour and even multicoloured stripes! You’ll need 675m of DK and 4mm needles as per the sample, but to make it longer or add tassels you’ll obviously need to factor that in!

The patterns are available via my pattern stores link in my bio, but head to my Ravelry store for 20% off until September 10th!

Happy Knitting!

It’s September 1st, my summer break has ended and it’s time to get back to work to bring you some very exciting new patt...
01/09/2026

It’s September 1st, my summer break has ended and it’s time to get back to work to bring you some very exciting new patterns and projects!

And as we head into cosy season, what do I have for you over the next few months?

My Path Fingerless Mitts, Ghost Handy Cup Cosy, Pumpkin Cowl, Snowflakes scarf, Snowball, Adventure in Cableland 1 and maybe a couple more new patterns, but I think I’ll be saving those til New Year. There’s also something going in the background that I can’t tell you about yet but I’m very excited about it!

So make sure you’re following along for all the updates and details of my upcoming pattern launches!

Happy Knitting!

Last chance to get 30% off my individual patterns, an extra 10% off my pattern bundles/ebooks and 50% off my wintery and...
31/08/2026

Last chance to get 30% off my individual patterns, an extra 10% off my pattern bundles/ebooks and 50% off my wintery and cosy Snowflake cowl, Pine Needle, Oxford, Erg and Lady Thistledown’s Quill patterns.

All offers are in my Ravelry store until 23:59 BST tonight, and my Ravelry store can be found when you click my pattern store link in my bio. And I’ll also pop it in my stories too!

Happy knitting!

30/08/2026

I know it’s only August and knitting snowflakes may not be on your radar at the moment, but hear me out!

My Snowflake cowl is such a fun and entertaining colourwork cowl project.

It’s knitted in the round, there’s 20 individual snowflake motifs plus fillers so you’re not going to get bored, and being a cowl it’s not a huge colourwork project either.

It’s knitted in DK and uses between 200 and 225m of main colour yarn and 125m of the contrast colour. But although the sample was knitted in two colours, you can use left over yarns for the snowflakes to make this a multicoloured cowl if you wanted to.

The pattern is presented in both chart and written formats so you can use your preferred format but you’ve also got the ability to cross check large stitch counts between colour changes.

And like all cowls they are cosy and practical for when it’s chilly, but there’s a brisk breeze and you don’t want to be worrying about your scarf flapping about!

And until tomorrow there is 50% off my Snowflake cowl patten on Ravelry so that’s a very good reason to buy the pattern now!

You can find my Ravelry store in the Pattern Stores Link in my profile and I’ll pop the pattern link in my stories.

Happy Knitting!

29/08/2026

Sometimes curling up with a cosy scarf project with a cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate/wine/large G&T is the most relaxing thing you can do on a Saturday afternoon.

And here are some other reasons why you might want that project to be my Oxford pattern.

~ It’s Aran weight so automatically cosy
~ It’s got a fun comma stitch motif that is simple to knit, but looks great!
~ It’s a relaxing knit as you don’t have to think about what you’re doing too much!
~ It’s great for when you’re out and about (see above!)
~ It’s easy to adjust in terms of length and width
~ It’s got a relaxed, college style vibe that can be enhanced by adding tassels, but if they’re not your thing you can leave them off!
~ It’s quite a quick knit (6mm needles + aran yarn) so perfect for when you’re looking for gift knits.
~ It looks great on anyone (see above)
~ It also has a matching beanie pattern…my Oxford Beanie!
~ until Monday my Oxford pattern has 50% in my Ravelry store. And don’t forget that all my other patterns have 30% off until Monday too!

Do you need any other reasons?

My Ravelry store can be found my clicking on my Pattern Stores link in my profile and I’ll also pop the pattern link in my stories.

Happy cosy Knitting!

It’s Patterns To Knit This Weekend time again and as we’ve got a long weekend I thought I’d share some patterns that are...
28/08/2026

It’s Patterns To Knit This Weekend time again and as we’ve got a long weekend I thought I’d share some patterns that are either quick and satisfying projects or ones that are great for when you’re out and about.

And don’t forget these (and all my other patterns) have 30% off in my Ravelry store until Monday!

There’s my Different Path beanie which is beautifully textured but simple to knit. This DK project also pairs with my Path Cowl and by the end of September you’ll be able to knit the set with my Path Fingerless Mitts.

Pine Needle Tea is a relaxing infinity cowl that uses my rhythmic chevron stitch pattern. It’s simple, fun and easy to memorise. And being an Aran pattern it’s incredibly cosy without the risk of it flying about in autumn/winter breezes.

My Oxford Beanie is a lovely comma stitch motif beanie hat. It’s simple and fun and being aran weight very cosy. It also matches my Oxford scarf if you were looking to knit a set.

Scarf Number 2 is a thoroughly entertaining DK project. It’s a long, thin tapered scarf with a simple alternating stockinette and twisted eyelet pattern surrounded by an icord border. Perfect to knit on journeys, and a great accessory to have in your autumn wardrobe for wearing indoors and wrapping yourself up in outdoors.

My Ravelry store link can be found via my Pattern Store Link in my profile, and I’ll pop it in my stories too!

So have a lovely long weekend and happy knitting!

And what a 23 year rollercoaster ride of self employment it is has been!In 2003 I left my City job as a Business Analyst...
26/08/2026

And what a 23 year rollercoaster ride of self employment it is has been!

In 2003 I left my City job as a Business Analyst and Cost Manager to start a career that came about by accident. I started designing bridal jewellery and hair accessories because the person I commissioned to design my hair accessory for a certain event cocked it up and with two weeks to go so I made my own. And then the phone calls and emails started asking where I got my hair accessory from. “I made it,” said I. What followed was a series of horribly underquoted commissions, but I was still working so 🤷‍♀️

But then company politics and some very dubious bosses made me grab redundancy with both hands, and the emails and phone calls for hair accessories kept coming. And then over the next 18 years the orders (with better prices) kept coming, I had a website, I had a bespoke and off the peg service, I had magazines calling me, I had bridal gown designers calling me, I had fashion show and catwalk coordinators calling me, I had TV production companies calling me. I even had PR! And then COVID happened!

So I turned to my private passion of 41 years: knitting! Not as a business idea at first, I started designing for fun because…well I missed designing. And now I’m at 51 patterns and counting because I love designing, and the fact that others can make the textures and shapes that go on in my brain. It might not be as fast paced or high profile as before, but my creative heart has found its home.

But none of these 23 years have been easy. They’ve been fun and ever changing, but not easy. There have been many frustrations and uncertain times, but once you learn to duck and dive, learn to listen to and rely on yourself and not others and keep saying, “this too shall pass!” you find the years ticking by.

But am I really a bad boss? Yes and No! I mean, I’ve just let myself have a month off, but my sketch and note books have been added to and in my final week off, I find myself twitching to get back to writing up new patterns for all you lot! But then I’m fortunate to do what I love and I couldn’t do it without you!

So to all my past, present and future customers: Thank you!

Suzanne x

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