New knits for spring and Crafty Fox Market

New knits for spring are now online - new triangle headbands to match our triangle snoods, as well as fair isle scarves and wraps all made from 100% lambswool.

If you're in London over the weekend I am also going to be at the fab Crafty Fox Market at The Bussey Building in Peckham, from 11-5 on Saturday - see you there!

Happy weekend!

Farnham Festival of Crafts

I'm excited to be taking part in Festival of Crafts this weekend at Farnham Maltings.

The festival is on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October from 10am both days, and you can find out more about the festival and the makers involved here.

Khaki and grey

I'm loving all the new season stuff coming into the shops at the moment! There is a lot of khaki and grey which ties in really well with some of the colours I've been working with lately, including being a perfect backdrop for the new yellow Miss Knit Nat knits.

Here are some of my faves:

Parka - Bella Parka from Oasis
Pom pom hat - Miss Knit Nat
Lambswool triangle snood - Miss Knit Nat
Dress - Topshop
Long grey cardigan - Next
Paisley wrap - Oasis

Have a great weekend!

5/9/14 - five sellers - one day only!

Happy Friday!

I'm taking party in #EtsyFlashSale today along with four other Etsy UK designer makers - this means that you can get discounts for one day only using the code FLASHFRIDAY at the checkout of our Etsy stores.

The designer/makers taking part are:

• Me! www.missknitnat.etsy.com
• Onetenzeroseven: www.onetenzeroseven.etsy.com
• Claireabellemakes: www.claireabellemakes.etsy.com
• Adventures and Tea Parties: www.adventuresteaparties.etsy.com
• Oh Squirrel: www.ohsquirrelshop.etsy.com

I'm really excited to be collaborating with a bunch of such talented people - go on, check out their Etsy shops and treat yourself!

Happy shopping!

New studio!

I'm so excited to have finished my new studio!! Just moved everything into the space today and really pleased with how it's turned out.

I wanted it to be really light and airy so we picked a really pale grey colour paint and then added the wallpaper for a nice feature wall. The tricky bit was planning and the re-planning the furniture, my one BIG tip is to remember where the light switch and plug sockets are when you're playing around with your scale cut out models of the room and furniture (everyone else does this right?). When I realised that the plugs were all in the wrong place I had to rejigg everything around again - oops!!

To celebrate my new studio (yay!) I'm offering 20% off all knits until 8 June with code STUDIO at missknitnat.com.

WIN a knitting kit!

If you’re a knitter you can WIN one of my knitting kits in the latest issue (58) of Let's Get Crafting - Knitting and Crochet, to make yourself a cosy pom pom hat and mitts!

You can enter through the magazine itself or online here. The kit up for grabs is in the oatmeal colour.

It's been really exciting launching my knitting kits and patterns this year - and I love hearing from other fellow knitters!

As well as knitting up these hats and mitts myself I've also been doing crochet amigurumi in between orders - more on that in another post when the last one is complete - and experimenting with my knitting machine!

Summer is on the way!

With the weather brightening up it has given me that little taste of summer and I've been making lots of cotton accessories in summery ice cream shades!

They're available now at www.missknitnat.com :)

Photo shoot and out takes!

Hope everyone is having a good Easter Day today. As we had a long weekend I took the opportunity to reshoot some of the photos of my items. It got a bit silly towards the end and here are some of the out takes!

Hope you've had a good weekend! :)

Wool House!

I'm really pleased I managed to catch the Campaign for Wool Wool House exhibition at Somerset House on the last day, it was brilliant!

 

The exhibition itself was divided into two sections, one half was set up as a 'house' with individual rooms created with huge amounts of fantastic wool and knitted items! I spotted a table in one of the rooms which had balls of yarn stored in the middle of the table, think something like this would be perfect for my coffee table!

The second side of the exhibition was made up of some fantastic individual designers and showcased weaving, spinning, tapestry, rugs, clothing, and the list just goes on! What struck me were the many uses for wool, basically anything, even stuffing bedding, and also the process it goes through before it even appears in my hands for me to be able to knit with. I'd love to see or have a go at spinning yarn one day.

The other thing about wool are the many textures, in clothing ranging from formal suits right through to really fine scarves, showing all in all that wool is great!

Here are some of the photos from the day, hope you managed to catch the exhibition while it was on.

 

 

 

 

A belated post about the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show!

Now this post is over a week late BUT the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show last weekend was brilliant!

I've been to the March Stitch and Craft Shows the past two years which have got bigger each year (especially the knitting section!) and saw this as a kind of 'mini Ally Pally' and we weren't disappointed!

Off we went, me, Mr Knit Nat and my fellow knitting and wine club friends on our day trip to Olympia, managing to arrive before it had even opened with our keen-ness. First stop was coffee and brochure buying to decide on our plan of action.

Then it was off to Toft to get one of their crochet amigurumi animals - I spent ages trying to decide which one to get and finally settled on the sheep and the hippo - look at how many they have to choose from!

I also bought the yarn and pattern for a waistcoat from Purl Alpaca so will keep you posted on how they both turn out. I’m hoping to get the waistcoat knitted up quite soon so I can wear it now with dresses.

Cute crochet finds

Here are a couple of cute crochet items we found along the way. The first is Gordon the Owl where you can buy the pattern from Mrs Moon, and the Robot is from a book called Amigurimu (Cozy) by Lan-Anh Bui.

In the second hall there was a big Folksy section where I met fellow Folksy seller Chichidee - and bought one of her brilliant turban headbands.

Then just as we were leaving we decided to bundle into the stall with mountains of wool - unfortunately I don't have any photos as it was just too crowded but was so much fun! Fellow knitting and wine friend Laura wanted a particular shade and after I declared I'd found it delving onto the floor into all the bags (and with the kind help of two fellow crafters) showed it to Laura but it was the one she already had - that stall was hilarious!

Mr Knit Nat and all our shopping

Final stop was to cover Mr Knit Nat in all of our bags for a funny photo opp - between us we left with some 30 balls of wool!

Can't wait til the next one at Ally Pally in October!

How much fun is it making pom poms!

We're excited that we've just added a new hat to the shop and thought we should also say a bit about ourselves as well seeing as this is our first post!

The new chunky pom pom hat is below and we've had so much fun making the pom poms for it! It's available now at www.missknitnat.com.

The chunky pom pom hat

As well as hats and pom poms Miss Knit Nat also makes snoods, scarves, gloves and headbands, all handmade and super warm!