The way we knit

Floyd and me. He's the happiest on my lap and under a blanket.

Na Craga

I'm very pleased with how it turned out. I've been wearing it a LOT and the yarn is holding up amazingly. This is by far the warmest cardigan I own.

The yarn is HF Blue Faced DK and pattern is Na Craga by Alice Starmore, but modified heavily. I made the whole thing in the round, with a steek for the front and saddle shoulder shaping (Elizabeth Zimermann's books). I've made the smallest size and it still looks a bit big. But very cozy.

I'm pleased, can you tell?

Last day of sale

Today is the last day of our 25% off sale! Just click on the shop link on the left :)

And the winner is...

comment no. 24, congratulations to Kathryn!

Thank you for your lovely comments, such a wealth of wonderful ideas!

Happy New Year - a giveaway!

Happy New Year! 2012 is here, so fingers crossed there is no Mayan apocalypse! You may have already noticed we have a January sale in the Etsy store with 25% off all purchases using the code HAPPY2012.

2011 was an amazing year for me and I want to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support throughout the year. In January, I hired two friends Laura and Máire to help me with the growing business and work on an expansion plan. On December the 3^rd, we had our studio launch party. While sharing our amazing studio with friends, family and fans was fun in itself, for myself, Máire and Laura, it was the culmination of almost 12 months of work, ranging from visiting potential sites, bank and accountant meetings and finally, lots and lots of painting!

We moved out of my kitchen at the end of October and has made a huge difference, in terms of the volume of yarn we can make and in that I can now switch off when I get back from work, rather than ‘just doing a bit more’, all night at times!

We have already started taking on new retail customers, which we were having to turn down this time last year, and we should soon be able to start taking new custom orders which we had to suspend during the move.

As a present to start the year, we commissioned a super cute interchangeable needle case for one lucky commenter on this post. My friend Mirka made this lovely case using a HF dyed silk fabric and all you have to do to win it is to tell us what you would like to see from Hedgehog Fibres this year. Is there a colour you think we are missing? A base we NEED to stock!? Something we should be doing that we’re not?

You have until Friday 5pm GMT to enter your comments :)