Journal

As your scrappy project grows, how do you choose what comes next? Explore colour changes, varying stripe widths and simple repetition, with a handy cheat sheet to help you find your rhythm and leave room for surprises.

There’s more to a scrappy project than choosing the next colour. Inspired by my Cruiser Cardigan, explore how different dye styles, textures and yarn combinations can bring interest and lovely surprises to your making.

You’ve gathered your scraps—now what could they become? Explore ideas for small leftovers, generous scrap baskets and full stash skeins, and find a knitting or crochet project you’ll love making and using.

This week on the Journal, we’re finishing A Month of Texture by looking at how texture, colour and mood work together. From soft shades in fluffy yarns to deep colours in cables and bright colours in simple stitches, we’re exploring how these choices shape the feeling of a project.

This week on the Journal, we’re exploring the beauty of simple stitches. From garter stitch and stockinette to ribbing, lace, cables and small textured repeats, we’re looking at how stitch patterns shape the fabric we make and bring texture, movement and interest to handmade projects.

Every yarn has its own texture before we even begin stitching. This week, we’re looking at how smooth, fluffy, crisp, drapey and flecked yarns shape the fabric we make, and how choosing the right base can help a project feel beautiful to knit, crochet and wear.

This month on the Journal, we’re turning our attention to texture. In this first post, we begin with the feeling of fabric: how yarn, stitch pattern and fibre shape the way a project looks, feels in our hands, and becomes something we love to wear.

A reflection on the colours we choose again and again, and what they tell us about the projects we love to make and wear.

A simple scrappy log cabin blanket recipe for using leftover DK yarn, fingering weight yarn held double, and little colour pops from your stash. This cosy garter stitch blanket grows one strip at a time and can be made to any size.

A beautiful palette is about more than choosing colours you love. In Week 3 of A Month of Colour, we look at how colours work together through contrast, harmony, value, neutrals and small unexpected details that can bring a project to life.

Colour can completely change the feeling of a knitting project. In Week 2 of A Month of Colour, we look at how different shades can soften, brighten, deepen or transform a pattern, and how colour choice shapes the way a finished piece feels.

Colour is often the first thing we respond to in a yarn or project. In the first post of A Month of Colour, we look at how colour shapes mood, memory, instinct and the feeling of a finished piece.