In the Making...

Field & Lea is inspired by nature and includes inspiration such as dandelions, bluebells and fields. Colour and texture are the core part of Field & Lea. The mood board below was the inspiration that I was working to. It uses two strands of 4ply / fingering marled together throughout, which allows the colours to play a big part in the design. You could easily use stash yarn and your creativity to knit your own. The pattern was designed, originally, for a mystery KAL with A Good Yarn, Cleethorpes , so it is separated into 4 distinct parts. The yarn is two strands of 4ply held together, which creates fun, marled colours but you could easily swap this for a worsted weight yarn, if you prefer. There's a lot of knit and purl texture involved, so it's a simple enough knit but the changing patterns and use of colour means that you don't get bored.  There are a couple of interesting but relatively simple texture techniques in the pattern and there are several video tutor...

I had a lovely Sunday, we went to Doddington Hall - in search of a walk and some inspiration. I had lots of fun taking photos, it's been ages since I went out specifically to photograph and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. It was an overcast day and I took lots. Here are a few of my favourites. Doddington Hall Hellebore - Christmas Rose I think this is meant to be a Unicorn! This was my absolute favourite of the day Barbed wire We had a little photo shoot while we were there. Though I much prefer being on the other end of the camera. What a fun guy? (I'm sorry, but couldn't resist) I love this one with Mr. in the background. Horse Chestnut I thought these were a good demonstration of using different focal points - I think I prefer the first one. The most enormous gnarled Horse Chestnut - there were three in a row and they were all huge. I'd never been to Doddington Hall before and must say it was lov...