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!

As well as helping to organise Yarn Gathering in North Wales we will be exhibiting there too! Less than two weeks to go now!

A much needed colour top up today - along with swatching for a new design!

Draig y môr (Sea Dragon) is available as a downloadable pdf on my my website, Ravelry, Payhip and Lovecrafts. You can also buy printed copies of the pattern from me at yarn shows! Draig y môr is a top-down triangular shawl with a garter tab start, simple lace stitches and a great wavy edging. 1/2

This week's blog post, "Poppies Bloom", is now available. See why I've been knitting one.

Draig y môr (Sea Dragon in Welsh) is now available digitally online for £6. You can find the pattern for this top-down triangular shawl on my website, Payhip, Ravelry and Lovecrafts. 1/3

Do you want to learn how to knit a true moebius that grows from the centre outwards? Sign up for my workshop at @yarndale! The workshop takes place on Saturday 27th Sept, 10.30am-1pm. 1/2

This week's blog post, "What to Wear?" is now available. Have a read about a couple of my most popular garment designs and what else is coming up soon!

All set up and ready for the Pop Up Wool Show at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight. There are so many lovely vendors here - come and have a lovely day out! We’re open 10-4, £4 entry.

We’ll be at the Pop Up Wool Show tomorrow at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight. Open 10-4, £4 entry. If you’re visiting the show, do come and say hello!

I am so pleased with how well the knitters got on at my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche workshop on Sunday at the North East Wool Show. They did straight two-colour brioche, increases, 2 decreases as well as learning new terms (brkyobrk anyone?!), all in two hours. Well done one and all!

This week's blog post, "It's (not at all) grim up north", is now available. We had a wonderful time at the North East Wool Show!

Thank you to the organisers of the @northeastwoolshowuk, Nick and Natasha, for putting on such an excellent show and thank you to everyone who stopped by our stand, had a chat, bought a pattern (or three!) or a kit! We had a wonderful weekend and it wouldn’t have happened without you. Thank you!

We are here and ready for Day 2 of North East Wool Show at Newcastle Racecourse. Open 10-4. Come and say hello and see our very long space!

This is the only photo I took today at the North East Wool Show as it’s been so busy! Ronnie (the rhino) has been very well behaved all day and might even help @suefinch on the stand tomorrow afternoon while I’m teaching.

‘There’s a Doll Thumping in My Chest’ ‘I spend a long time soothing her to sleep’ ‘trust me she cries easily’ 👶 ❤️‍🔥 From @suefinch.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature, a hard-hitting poem. www.blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-au... #poetry #writing

These are a few of the designs I’m bringing with me to the North East Wool Show at Newcastle Racecourse this weekend. I can’t bring everything - that would be over 70 designs (!), but there is a lovely wide range of patterns with hopefully something for most knitters there.

This week's blog post, "Angel of the North", is now available.

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 YELLOW STRETCHY MAN... soopoftheday-soo.blogspot.com/2025/08/yell...

Not long now! This will be our 1st time at this show & the furthest north we’ve been for a show. We’ll have lots of patterns & all the kits. If you can’t make it to Newcastle this weekend, all my designs are on my website, Payhip & Rav. No door tickets on Sat - buy a ticket online beforehand!

This new shawl design, Draig y Môr, (pronounced ‘Drige uh mor’ - Welsh for Sea Dragon) came back from my tech editor yesterday with a few bits to tidy up. These I have done & it’s now pinged back to her again for another check. So… it might be coming to the North East Wool Show next weekend!

If you are coming to the North East Wool Show at Newcastle Racecourse on August 9/10, remember I will have printed copies of the newly updated Elinor Hap Shawl with me!

This week's blog post, "On Your Marks, Get Set...", is now available.

A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good I'd forgotten how enjoyable What Do Points Make? is. My 4ply version is coming on a treat. I wound the second colour into two 50g balls to make it easier. I haven't yet decided whether to continue with the longer side working with the third colour, or…

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 ENTHUSIASTIC APPLAUSE...

And here's the listening link: soopoftheday.podbean.com/e/enthusiast...

The updated version of Elinor Hap Shawl is now live! Available from my website, Payhip and Ravelry now, and will be available from Lovecrafts soon (the cogs turn more slowly on that site). New photos, improved layout and a couple of other things too!

This week's blog post, "A Slice of Lime?" is now available. As well as my gorgeous new green shawl, have a look at an enormous bee crashing our photoshoot!

I think my new sample of Elinor Hap Shawl blocked out rather well! It was only on the hap stretcher for 5 hours. Usually I would leave a shawl on there for 24-48 hours, but this time it was outside in 30 degree (Celcius) heat and it was most definitely done. The wood of the stretcher was hot!

Using the hap stretcher to block my new sample of Elinor Hap Shawl.

Building the hap stretcher. Using it to block the shawl will be posted tomorrow.

What on earth am I doing? Why am I sewing DK yarn through the edging points on my Elinor Hap Shawl? I’m getting ready to block it on my hap stretcher - a wooden frame with nails around the edge. The DK yarn will be hooked over the nails to hold the shawl while it dries. Video coming soon!

I finally started using some yarn I was gifted 7 years ago! A 5-skein gradient set from LottieKnits was the main part of my leaving gift when I left teaching. I’ve been thinking about using it for a 4-ply version of What Do Points Make? for about 3-4 years, and finally cast on last night!