This was what our stand looked like in May at the last Yarnies at the Flaxmill event. We’re there again tomorrow for Yuletide Yarnies with some new set up bits & some new patterns too. Come & say hello! Open 11-4, advance tickets £5 available until 8pm tonight or £7.50 on the door tomorrow.

Two-colour brioche knitting is a fabulous technique! Want to learn at an in-person workshop? I am teaching my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche workshop at several yarn shows next year, including… 1/2

I now have a Tech Editing page on my website! Detailed there are some of the things a tech editor does, including: 🧶 Checking all st and row numbers are correct for all sizes. 🧶 Checking formatting is correct and consistent throughout the pattern. 1/2

This week's blog post, "Third Time Lucky", is now available. Read about why I sacrificed a little bit of yarn to the yarn gods.

Yuletide Yarnies is this coming Saturday! Our last show of the year, it is being held at the English Heritage venue Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings. We’ll have lots of patterns & all remaining kits with us. There will be singers and mince pies! Open 11am-4pm. £5 in advance or £7.50 on the day

Prime Cowl is now available on Ravelry, Payhip & my website. It uses the stacked stitches technique exemplified by Xandy Peters. It’s worked in the round with 2 options for the lower edge. The stacks grow with prime numbers. You need 3 colours of DK yarn (~230m total) & you use 1 colour at a time.

New yarn has arrived for a new design! It’s even prettier in real life. I’m going to enjoy working with this.

This week's blog post, "Advent - a time of waiting", is now available!

I have a new design out today! Making Tracks is in Issue 222 of The Knitter magazine. It’s a cabled saddle shoulder jumper worked flat in DK yarn. The cables are inspired by tyre tracks left behind in forests, fields and on beaches.

This week's blog post, "Gremlins and Gnomes", is now available.

Hi! I want to show off my new pattern releases and let you know I’m having a big 25% sale on everything! These are Ayr Hat, Lostwithiel Top Down Socks, St Nectan’s Glen Toe Up Socks and Saltash Scarflette. More info at fayeperriamreed.com/patterns or www.ravelry.com/designers/faye-perriam-reed

Blocking a gnome while it’s still on the needles!

I am so proud of what my workshop attendees achieved. It was their first time knitting two-colour brioche & they nailed it! I learnt a lot too as it was the first time I’ve met some who knits left-handed with *everything* mirror image to the usual way of knitting.

This week's blog post, "Cake and Wool", is now available.

This Sunday at the RiverKnits studio in Weedon Bec! Open 10-4 with a lovely range of vendors and guest speaker Susan Crawford!! This will be a super day - do come along if you’re free. Only £5 entry.

This week's blog post, "Going round in circles - or squares", is now available.

There’s still time to book on next week’s workshop - Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting at Shaz’s Shabby Chic in Buckley. www.ticketsource.co.uk/kath-andrews...

This week's blog post, "Remember, Remember", is now available!

A reminder that you can book next month’s knitting workshops now! 19th Nov - intro to two-colour brioche knitting 26th Nov - intro to lace knitting Each workshop is £25 including yarn & handouts, 6.30-8.30pm at Shaz's Shabby Chic. Booking is essential! www.ticketsource.co.uk/kath-andrews...

This week's blog post, "Making and Baking", is now available! kathandrewsdesigns.com/2025/10/28/m...

Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s POET, COACH. COACH, POET... soopoftheday-soo.blogspot.com/2025/10/poet...

There’s still time to book a place on my Moebius Knitting workshop! Wednesday 29th October, 6.30-8.30pm at @shazsshabbychic in Buckley. Use this link for full details and to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/kath-andrews...

My 4-ply version of What Do Points Make? is completed and now needs blocking before sewing two very short side seams. I needed a tiny bit of a fourth colour - top outer corners on the pic.

Very excited to be exhibiting at The Wool Monty for the first time next year! Early bird tickets are now on sale!

Knitting a new moebius sample of Gnarly Roots - a cowl with reversible cables. Loving how it’s coming out!

Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s FOCUSING... soopoftheday-soo.blogspot.com/2025/10/focu... #SingingAsTheDarknessLifts

My four autumn evening knitting workshops at Shaz’s Shabby Chic in Buckley, Flintshire. For full details and to book go to www.ticketsource.co.uk/kath-andrews...

This week's blog post, "Autumn Days", is now available. There's something special about this time of year. kathandrewsdesigns.com/2025/10/07/a...

Crenellate is available from my website, Payhip and Ravelry stores. The pattern is a top-down triangular shawl with a textural design created with knit & purl stitches. Yarn overs increase the stitch count. When you get near the border you add the second colour for some stocking stitch stripes.

I just keep referring to this, because I honestly can't think of anything more convincing than Sir Patrick Stewart and co perfectly and hilariously explaining it in a Life of Brian homage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfm...

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

Crenellate got quite a lot of attention at Yarndale last weekend! 
The subscriber discount period is finished, but the pattern is still available from my website, Ravelry and Payhip. 1/2

My autumn knitting workshops begin soon! Stranded (Fair Isle) Knitting is on 22nd October at Shaz’s Shabby Chic in Buckley, Flintshire. 6.30-8.30pm, £25 inc handouts & yarn. Bring 4mm needles. Learn to manage 2 yarns at once when knitting or purling, create a smooth fabric & follow a chart.

This week's blog post, "Times flies when you're having fun", is now available! Read about what made our weekend at Yardale fly by. kathandrewsdesigns.com/2025/09/30/t...

Thank you to all the organisers, volunteers, staff at the auction mart, visitors and fellow vendors who all helped to make @yarndale weekend what it is! We had a great time and I got to share the mysteries of moebius knitting with more knitters in my workshop on Saturday!

Crenellate is live on my website, Payhip and Ravelry! Newsletter subscribers, check your inboxes!

Crenellate Shawl relaunches as an individual pattern tomorrow morning! This shawl uses knit and purl stitches for the pattern and yarn overs for the shaping. It starts with a garter tab (video on my YouTube channel!) and is a relaxing knit. The pattern is charted as well as fully written. 1/2

Today I added a video to my YouTube channel: working a garter tab as the start to a top-down shawl. After talking to folk recently where they’d not heard of a garter tab, I thought it would be useful! Many patterns use this, including Crenellate which is out on Friday. youtu.be/_U92BuMxX_w?...

This week's blog post, "Licensed to Crenellate", is now available! Read about Crenellate, due to be re-launched this Friday and why I think it's one of my easier designs. kathandrewsdesigns.com/2025/09/23/l...

We will be at stand D5 this year at @yarndale - near the Wharfdale entrance. Do come and say hello if you are visiting! There are still a couple of spaces on my moebius knitting workshop on Saturday morning 10.30am-1pm) too. You can book on the Yarndale website.

Crenellate is a large top-down triangular shawl with satisfying textural design created with knit & purl stitches. The knitted-on garter stitch border has its own ornate crenellation! Crenellate will be relaunched as an individual pattern soon, having first been published in Knit Now in March 2025.

Crenellate Shawl is home and we’ve been out photographing it! Any guesses where we’ve been? Crenellate was first published in March 2025 in Knit Now and will be relaunched very soon as an individual pattern! Newsletter subscribers keep an eye on your inboxes over the next few days!

Only 10 days until our next show which is Yarndale! There are a few spaces left on my moebius knitting workshop on the Saturday morning as well - go to the Yarndale website to book a place!

This week's blog post, "All Fired Up", is now available!

Whether you like to knit shawls, garments, smaller items or things for the home, I’ve got you covered! If you like printed patterns find me at Yarn Gathering in Mold this Sunday & at Yarndale 27-28/9. If you like digital patterns everything is available via my website!

This week's blog post, "Gathering Together", is now available!

I’m really looking forward to @yarn_gathering_nwales on Sunday! These pics are from our stand at @northeastwoolshowuk last month. I will be at Yarn Gathering in the upstairs room again this year, with 3 other super vendors. There are a few kits available too - ideal as gifts! 1/2

Any guesses as to why I’ve been measuring a hot water bottle?!

"If you celebrated justice for Hillsborough, you have to support the European Convention on Human Rights Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered"

This week's blog post, "Milestone", is now available. My 250th blog post!