Dear Knitter,
This month I am happy to announce that the Sporran Bag and Linne Belt are now available as the focus of Creative Course 3. The course is suitable for all abilities, from beginner onwards. The projects are small and quick to knit and so they are an ideal and fun way to learn a wide range of techniques and develop your abilities in terms of felting, construction and embroidery whilst experimenting creatively with embroidery imagery and colour, as you can see from the examples shown here. You can find Creative Course 3 on our steek dot scot tutorial website.
The embroidery is a great way of creatively using up scraps of yarn from other projects, but to start off you can also purchase a Creative Course 3 yarn pack to make a matching Sporran and Linne in your own choice of colour palette. You can find the Creative Course 3 Yarn Pack here.
So far, I have made 5 sets and ideas for many more are always demanding attention. Here you can see a pale set in Pebble Beach with embroidery worked in Golden Plover, Corncrake, Sea Ivory, Driftwood, Mountain Hare, Sundew and Machair.
This set is worked in a warm background of Whin with a very similar embroidery palette as the Pebble Beach set, but to very different effect. Here I have used Golden Plover, Fulmar, Corncrake, Driftwood, Mountain Hare, Sundew, Machair, Spindrift and Pebble Beach for the embroidery.
A bright seaside colour palette uses Strabhann as a main colour, adding Kelpie and Mara into the belt, set off with a wide array of embroidery in Sundew, Whin, Corncrake, Driftwood, Pebble Beach, Tormentil, Red Rattle, Sea Anemone, Red Deer, Limpet and Shearwater.
A main colour of Red Rattle provides a rich background for embroidery worked in Capercaille, Tormentil, Red Deer, Sea Anemone, Mountain Hare and Driftwood.
A main colour of Limpet, with Selkie and Kelpie added into the belt, provides a dramatic background for the embroidery shades of Driftwood, Mountain Hare, Sundew, Machair, Shearwater, Golden Plover, Corncrake, Lapwing, Red Deer, Summertide and Sea Ivory.
Finishing the Sporran and Linne designs also completes my Queen of the Waves and House of Feathers Collections. These designs are all inspired by the culture, birdlife and land and seascapes of the islands of St Kilda, and comprise knitting, felting, weaving and embroidery to make garments which can be layered together or worn dramatically by themselves. These collections are the imaginary contents of a traveling kist, the patterns and colours filled with the wings of birds, the light dancing on the waves and the lines of the steep cliffs of St Kilda. You can view the complete Queen of the Waves and House of Feathers Collections here.
As always when one part of a project ends, another part begins. The fine textures and moorland colours of the next chapter of the St Kilda Collection will slowly be brought together over the next couple of years. In the meantime Jade and I have designs both new and old on the needles for the rest of 2024.
Happy Knitting,
Alice
