BLOOM WITH DEE
Dee Hardwicke has collaborated with designer Jonna Helin to produce Cultivate, a new book celebrating the beauty of nature. It has 20 patterns comprising botanical scarf designs from Dee and timeless sweaters from Jonna.
Beautiful stranded colourwork projects include the ‘Garden Party’ and ‘Walled Garden’ shawls. The ‘Peony’ shawl has a silky fabric sprinkled with tiny intarsia squares. Many of Dee’s designs combine stranded colourwork or intarsia with duplicate stitch embroidery to create spectacular, artistic patterns.
Wear-with-everything garments in solid colours and luxurious yarns include a neat V-neck raglan pullover, a slouchy top-down turtleneck sweater, and two chic dresses.
€36.90 for print book, €33.90 for PDF from www.lainepublishing.com
Magic mix Moorland Mohair is the gorgeous new blend of Bluefaced Leicester & mohair in 12 elegant shades from Erika Knight www.erikaknight.com
Wool Couture’s toy knitting kits are just delightful! We’ve fallen for Lionel Lamb (pictured), and his friends which include a characterful octopus, a Highland cow, a cat, a giraffe, a schnauzer dog, and