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Sue
@veg-grower.bsky.social
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Happy smiley person, walking on sunshine, living the dream, occasionally given to over-exaggeration. Chicken keeper, permaculturist, jam-maker, knitter, wannabe designer. She/Her. No DMs
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 take 2. The prompt is Whites and Brights, so this time I'm going with Brights. TBH this describes most of my knitting output - I do like bright colours. This modular sock yarn blanket was knit in 2023, and I named the project Let's Start a Riot, for obvious reasons!😎
A garden bench in bright sunlight, A multicoloured blanket is spread across the seat. It is made up of many different plain, variegated, and self-striping sock yarns A closer look at the modular blanket, with a ball of the yarn used for some of the squares and the i-cord edging sitting on top of the blanket Working on the i-cord edge, about to turn a corner. The squares are different shades of pinks and turquoise with purple and lavender, as well as some olive green
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I don't have a huge amount of worsted weight in my stash, so it has to be Malabrigo Rios. I fell in love with the Ankara Green, so I shall be using that - a beautiful bright green semisolid that I think will enhance the cables and my wardrobe! 😍🧶
Two skeins of Malabrigo Rios in Ankara Green, a lovely mid green veering towards, but not quite hitting, turquoise
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is Whites and Brights. I am too messy a person to be able to wear white or cream so don't have many white knits. My Whitley Common shawl was knit in white Linen/silk laceweight, which was a lovely yarn but a nightmare to photograph accurately!
A creamy white 3/4 Pi shawl displayed on a dummy, standing in a garden in bright sunlight. In order to be able to see the lace pattern of the shawl, the dummy has been dressed in a black polo-necked sweater! Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whitley-common Yarn: Solstice Yarns Persuasion 65% silk 35% linen, colour Natural Back view of a creamy white 3/4 Pi shawl displayed on a dummy, standing in a garden in bright sunlight. In order to be able to see the lace pattern of the shawl, the dummy has been dressed in a black polo-necked sweater! The pattern depicts a stylised meandering rivulet, ending in a floral lace edging Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whitley-common Yarn: Solstice Yarns Persuasion 65% silk 35% linen, colour Natural
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sunrise, Yorkshire. 17 Dec 2025, 08:10
Looking east, a row of skeletal leafless trees, with a golden and red sunrise behind them. The sky above is blue and cloudless, although there are a few light clouds on the horizon, lit on fire by the rising sun
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 This week, Liv's prompt is cardigans. In recent years I have knit few cardigans: Hitofude in Tosh Merino Light which got frogged (moth damage 😢); and my aran weight intarsia jacket which is so warm it never gets worn. I desperately want to make a cabled cardi, but will I wear it?
Hitofude by Hiroko Fukatsu, in Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light, colourway Spectrum. A lacy piece of knitting stretched on a blocking mat. It is a wonderful mix of turquoise, pinks, greens, and brown. So shiny, it looks like a film of oil on the surface of a puddle An intarsia long line cardigan/jacket, worn by a woman standing in front of a cream garage door. She has her arms outstretched to the side, holding the fronts of the jacket, so as to display the whole design. The jacket depicts a kelp forest in shades of blue and green, with threads of orange and dark brown. Many aran and worsted weight yarns were used, being chosen for colour and weight compatibility rather than brand.
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt is holiday themed or coloured knits. My first contribution is more winter themed, my very first tam, and only my second stranded piece. The pale blue/dark green version was my 1st in 2015, and I enjoyed it so much I made another the following year!
The round wheel of a tam lying on a metal table, in artificial light. It is coloured in grey and cream, with grey, light blue and dark green stylised trees. pattern: Winter Forest Tam by Ruskin's Notes, a fabulous free pattern https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/winter-forest-tam yarn: a mix of Jamieson's and J&S Shetland 4ply The Winter Forest Tam in production, showing the plain grey rib, the first row of branching trees on a cream background, and a row of cream hearts on a pale blue background. Behind the knitting, on the wooden table, sits a mug of tea, cream coloured with a cobalt blue cockerel pattern The same Winter Forest Tam pattern knit in Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal. The unblocked wheel is sitting on a wooden table. The tam features teal, dark green and purple on a cream and pale blue background. The second WInter Forest Tam, sitting upside down, showing the corrugated rib brim and the first row of teal trees on a cream background
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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It looks like there are 2 options to be voted on by the membership, according to the revised constitution:
www.yourparty.uk/constitution/
The document states that these options were added to the roadmap after debate in regional assemblies of members.
screenshot of amended YP constitution showing the options to be voted on.
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is Advent Calendars & miniskeins. My first contribution this week is not mini- but micro-skeins called Yarnlings (teeny 5g balls) from Eden Cottage, which are inspiring and great fun.
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A sideways view of a cowl lying on a blocking mat, The cowl features stripes of medium width stripes separated by narrow dark stripes. The dark separating stripes are Black Tulip Milburn 4ply, a lovely dusky purple, and each of the medium stripes is a different Eden Cottage hand dyed yarn. Colours are stone, grey/pink speckled, light sage green, medium green, orange speckled, blue variegated, grey variegated, tan, brown, aqua variegated, pale pink, pale green, lavender, orange, and brown variegated. Woman standing in a conservatory wearing a striped cowl pulled halfway up her face obscuring all but one bespectacled eye A striped cowl being held up in front of a person's face.
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I'm a participating designer in the Fasten Off Yarnalong 2025. Get 25% off all my patterns until 4th December using code FO2025. The code can be used on Payhip and on Ravelry.
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A collage of four photos of shawls. Top: Beltane a golden yellow stole hanging in an apple tree; Litha, a pink lace semicircular shawl displayed on a model. Bottom: Lughnasadh, a yellow bias-knit wide triangle displayed on a model; Mabon, a semicircular textured pattern in two shades of turquoise hanging on a washing line in front of a stone wall. A collage of four photos of shawls. Top: Samhain, an autumnal reversible doubleknit long triangle that can be made as a cowl or shawl displayed on a model in front of a stone wall; Yule, an aran weight green poncho/cape with a travelling-stitch raised pattern of branches, displayed on a model in front of climbing plants. Bottom: Imbolc, a creamy white beaded textured shawl displayed on a model; Ostara, a green square/rectangular shawl on a blocking mat, half plain garter and half lacy flower pattern. A collage of four photos of tams lying on wooden garden furniture. Top: Teasel, a light green and lavender tam the wheel of the tam represents the prickly leaves that protect the teasel flowers; Poppy, a green and orange/red design representing the dried seed pods and the drooping buds (not shown here) of the common field poppy, with black beads representing the tiny seeds; Wild Oats, a peat brown and autumnal green tam patterned with leaves and ripening fruits of the common roadside wild plant. All of these, plus Thistle, are available singly and in the Weeds Collection.
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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#FOFriday 🧶 Finally finished my golden stole! It needs a good blocking to bring out the pattern (All that Glisters, pattern to be released in the new year) and it is difficult to photograph in its current state, but I am very pleased with it. Love the yarn, Malabrigo Dos Tierras in Sunset.
An orangey-yellow pile of knitting lying curled up on a stone floor. It is a long stole with a linear pattern of texture and eyelets.
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 take 2. Not an indie dyer, but a small yarn producer. Ellie of the Doulton Flock produces beautiful yarn from a flock of Border Leicester sheep with a no kill policy - sheep that get to grow old. All the colours in my Flagship vest are her yarn. doultonborderleicesteryarn.com
A piece of stranded knitting. On a pale grey background (KDD Ooskit) there are purple, 2 pinks, dark blue, and lime green Doulton Flock Border Leicester yarns in a traditional OXO pattern.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 this week, Liv wants to see indie designers and dyers. My first indie dyer is Becca @bluebellyarns.co.uk Lovely non-superwash yarns in gorgeous colour combinations. I have knit so many things in her yarns, below is just a small selection, patterns by indie designers too!
Pink variegated and dark blue used in a double knit cowl, pattern adapted from Reversible Owl Cowl by Cathy Dobson https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/reversible-owl-cowl Yarn BFL/Shetland/Alpaca 4ply by Bluebell Yarns Woman wearing pink specs wears a stranded pattern hat. The hat shows an owl and various leaves and flowers in dark blue, the background is a variegated yarn in light grey, several greens and lavender. Pattern adapted from bunnymuff's Cherishing Every Aspect of Life sweater https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cherishing-every-aspect-of-life yarn by Bluebell Yarns in Falkland Corriedale (Deep Blue Sea) and BFL/Masham 4ply in Woodland Clearing A cowl lying on a stone floor. It is in stranded colourwork and shows a fox and a rabbit (or hare) and various leaves and flowers in dark blue, the background is a variegated yarn in light grey, several greens and lavender. Pattern adapted from bunnymuff's Cherishing Every Aspect of Life sweater https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cherishing-every-aspect-of-life yarn by Bluebell Yarns in Falkland Corriedale (Deep Blue Sea) and BFL/Masham 4ply in Woodland Clearing A skein of yarn lying on a cream cushion. The yarn is Bluebell Yarns BFL/Shetland/Alpaca 4ply in Frangipani, a mix of bright pink, cream and orange
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is Knitted Floof. I have sneezed my way through knitting several pieces in Rowan Kidsilk Haze. Love the look, but they are really warm to wear for most of the year!
Harden Moss, one of my Yorkshire Collection of designs. Knit sideways in Rowan Kidsilk Haze colourway Ghost. This is a large enveloping triangular shawl, super warm, perfect for a winter wedding! The pale grey shawl is wrapped around a display model standing in front of a green background. The shawl has parallel lines of eyelets on a garter background https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/harden-moss One of my earliest uses of Rowan Kidsilk Haze (colourway Candy Girl), this is Spiders Web Shawls by Jane Sowerby. I didn't know when to stop I was enjoying knitting this so much, and it turned out so big I couldn't find the space to be able to block it! I have no photos of it either, other than this small section of bright pink floof. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/spiders-web-shawls My very first floofy shawl, another Jane Sowerby design from Victorian Lace Today, knit in Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe - stripes of purple turquoise amber and pink. The shawl is laid flat being blocked. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/shoulder-shawl-in-syrian-pattern The Kidsilk Haze is a bit more restrained in this cowl, Wavy by me. The floof is confined to the grey stripe, in between the Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal. A white fair haired woman wearing pink stripey spectacles has a cowl pulled up over her nose obscuring the lower half of her face. The cowl features stripes of pink tweed and grey fluffy yarn. The design is a riff on the wonderfully adaptable Old Shale traditional pattern. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wavy-7
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Interesting, and works for a very simple pattern like his, where colours are alternated 1x1 and he doesn't have to carry the working yarn for more than a stitch. I couldn't work like that for my current project, where I have huge blocks of one colour interspersed with dots of the other.
A work in progress cowl in double knitting, showing both the front face (pink variegated background, dark blue pattern of flowers and leaves) and the reverse (dark blue background with pink variegated pattern)
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Our beech tree and Kentish Cob hazel tree putting on a glorious show this autumn, the one russet and gold, the other gold with still some green. Neither quite ready to shed their leaves despite it being November.
A solitary Beech tree, bare branches at the top, but rich russet and gold leaves clothing the lower branches. A bright blue November sky above a russet and gold beech tree on the left and a mainly golden Kentish Cob hazel tree on the right. An expanse of grass between them is speckled with fallen leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is WIPs. Apparently I have 16 WIPs; this is just 4 of them, the ones I have actually touched this week! L to R: A doubleknit cowl, a stranded vest, two stoles, and the four items in a colourful pile (can you tell I like pink and purple?!)
Both inside and outside of a work in progress still on the needle. The top part is a pink variegated background with a dark blue pattern of flowers, plus the legs and claws of an owl. The lower part is the reverse with a dark blue background and a pink variegated pattern of flowers and leaves. Owl Cowl by Cathy Dobson, but rendered in reversible double knitting, using Bluebell Yarns BFL/Shetland/Alpaca. I'm about one-third done. A slow but satisfying knit. A work in progress still on the needles. A stranded vest in DK weight yarn. From the top: bright pink on a lime green background; lavender strips on light grey; a broad stripe of bright pink, pale pink, and bright pink again, with a fair isle OXO pattern in dark blue, purple and lavender; light grey with purple blocks. The deep ribbed hem is also shown in light grey, with a strip of corrugated ribbing in the centre in purple, bright pink and lime green. Pattern: Flagship Vest from Espace Tricot; yarn: KDD Ooskit in Riach (grey), all colours Doulton Border Leicester DK. Two samples for my upcoming pattern release, All That Glisters, one in bright pink, the other in a rich orange. On the left, a widthways stole in Doulton Border Leicester 4ply Uschi Pink (yes, the same colour as in the Flagship Vest - I am obsessed!). On the right, the same pattern but rendered as a lengthways stole in Malabrigo Dos Tierras colour Sunset. All four items, from the left bright pink stole, Flagship Vest pink/purple/lime green stranded vest, orange stole, pink and dark blue double knit cowl.
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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#WIPWednesday 🧶 Kind of obsessed with colourwork at the moment, and this one is a bit different for me as it is DK rather than 4ply, so it is moving quite quickly!
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The lower part of a stranded colourwork vest in DK weight yarn. The ribbing and background colour is light grey (KDD Ooskit), the pinks, purple, lavender and dark blue yarns are Doulton Border Leicester DK. The pattern is a take on traditional fairisle designs.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I've finished the deep ribbing on the lower hem of the Flagship Vest, and I'm delighted with the effect of the colours I have chosen - purple, bright pink and lime green on a light grey background.
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A strip of 2x2 ribbed knitting, the centre of which is corrugated ribbing in three colours, and cakes of the three colours (all Doulton Border Leicester) surround it. from the bottom of the strip: pale grey (KDD Ooskit), purple ( Hawnby Hills), bright pink (Uschi), lime green (Appleton Wiske), pink again, purple again, light grey.
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Having finished 2 🧶 projects this week, I treated myself to a new cast on, Flagship Vest by Stephanie Earp for Espace Tricot. I am using @katedaviesdesigns.com Ooskit as the background light grey, & shades of pink, purple, dark blue, and a gorgeous bright green from Doulton Border Leicester.
A pile of cakes of DK yarn plus four skeins. The colours are: left top to bottom: KDD Ooskit in Riach (light grey), Doulton Border Leicester Rosedale (pale pink), bright red (Rievaulx). middle top to bottom: Sandsend (yellow), Semerwater (dark blue), Sheep (creamy white). right skeins: Uschi (bright lipstick pink) lying on top of Hawnby Hill (royal purple), Appleton Wiske (lime green), Cringle Moor (mid lavender). I may not use all of these - the pattern calls for 5 contrast colours only - but the pinks and purples are definite, plus the green. The pattern for Flagship Vest with the curled circular needle holding the cast on and part of the cake of light grey yarn, KDD Ooskit. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flagship-vest
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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#FOFriday 🧶 I'm making up for that last couple of no-finishes weeks by reporting TWO FOs today! A Moebius cowl and a lapghan, both my own designs. Both patterns will be published this winter.
A cowl in tight close-up on a display model, standing in front of some indoor plants. The texture is very crinkly, the predominant colour is a mid turquoise, with stripes of a darker teal. A moebius cowl in a textured pattern, using scraps of two colours of 4ply yarn. I used Doulton Border Leicester in Saltholme and Turquoise, making variable-sized stripes, and giving it a crinkly edge in the form of a picot cast off. A large rectangle of knitting pinned to a white and blue blocking board. The blanket has lengthways stripes of yarnovers interspersed with a textured pattern. The yarn is Cascade 220 worsted in Smoke Heather, a rather lovely green which in some lights looks grey. Here it looks a rather dull mid brown due to indoor lighting.
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#WIPWednesday take 2 🧶 Forgot, that I started this Leaf Garland crochet garland testerday, pattern by @littleconkers.bsky.social It's years since I did any crocheting, and I had to watch a couple of YouTube videos to refresh my skills, but I think I have finally got the hang of it!
A shiny table covering of strawberries and flowers, on which is laid a mid green garland of crocheted leaves, with a metal crochet hook secured through the end leaf. Yarn: Blacker Lyonesse 4ply in Peridot Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/leaf-garland
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#WIPWednesday 🧶 Still working on everything I was working on last wednesday, except for a couple of swatches for upcoming wips. A cable swatch for some cosy Purl Soho legwarmers, & a stranded swatch for Flagship Vest by Espace Tricot www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Debbie Bliss Donegal Tweed Aran in Denim, a mid blue with orange and white speckles. The swatch features a braided cable pattern flanked by reverse stocking stitch and moss stitch. The swatch is lying on a pale cloth patterned with sheep. A blue and white blocking mat with a swatch pinned to it. The swatch is of a steeked piece of stranded knitting in a traditional pattern, but using only two colours of DK yarn The background and ribbing top and bottom are in mid grey KDD Ooskit and the pattern is in Doulton Border Leicester DK colour Sandsend.
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 I dragged the coat out of it's vacuum bag and took some fresh photos. The worst damage is along the hem and on the collar and ribbed front. I do think it's salvageable, and it still fits me *gasp!*
The back of a cabled and bobbled knit coat displayed in sunshine. It is cream aran wool although it looks yellow in this photo. The pattern consists of panels of blackberry stitch and a V-shaped cable filled with moss stitch. These are interspersed with columns of bobbles - lots and lots of bobbles! The lower hem, the cast on edge showing considerable damage. A closeup of the cabled V pattern with holes at the point of the V The wide ribbed front meets the wide ribbed collar. Both have been badly nibbled.
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Back in 1978, I bought this booklet for the cover pattern. Mum's friend Margaret, a demon knitter, declined to knit it - too complicated - so I taught myself cables & bobbles and knit it myself. 47 yrs of careless storage, & it's full of moth-holes🥺 www.ravelry.com/patterns/sou...
Cover of an A4 brochure called Knit One in Wool '78, with a woman standing in a field full of sheep. She is wearing a cream aran coat covered in cables and columns of large bobbles. It is a lovely coat, which I shall absolutely mend, although I may need to take a class in visible mending to do it justice!
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#WIPWednesday 🧶 Still suffering from cast-on-itis, so I started another cowl this morning! So that makes 6 current WIPs, although 2 are rapidly approaching completion. Today's cowl is another Moebius in lovely Doulton Border Leicester in teal (Saltholme) and Turquoise, leftover scraps from a shawl
A portion of knitting in a rich turquoise textured pattern. A silver coloured stitch marker, made years ago from an old dangly earring, can be seen on the cable of the knitting needles. The background is a cream cushion.
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM