Coming soon!

I cannot WAIT to tell you about my upcoming design. It has all the characteristics of a typical New Leaf pattern: it’s fun, colourful, and teaches you a new skill. I can already tell a lot of people are going to want to knit this.
In my designs, I always strive for the perfect balance of enjoyment and challenge. I want knitters to learn from my patterns, for their abilities to be challenged, but of course I also want people to enjoy knitting my patterns instead of feeling frustrated. When I was knitting my sample, it was one of those projects that you can just pick up and knit without looking at the pattern.

The pattern is being tested right now by a wonderful group of knitters (16 in total!) and they have already been a tremendous help to finding errors and inconsistencies in the pattern. Just a few more weeks to go until I can show you more!

So in the meantime, let’s go back to where I got the idea for this design.

Woolly Good Gathering 2026

A couple months ago, in April, I attended the Woolly Good Gathering in Edinburgh. If you have never been, absolutely put it on your calendar for next year because it is AMAZING! One of the brilliant stallholders were sisters Lydia and Hannah with their brand Weku Yarn. You might know Lydia from the UK TV-show Game of Wool, where she was a finalist! It was lovely getting to chat with Lydia, about her experiences on the show, and working together with her sister Hannah.

‘Weku’ (pronounced way-ku) is the word for family in Ga, a nod at the sisters Ghanaian heritage. And they really work together as a team! While there are some tasks they both share, Lydia also designs beautiful patterns for their yarns, and Hannah comes up with the handdyed colourways.

Aside from their gorgeous handdyed yarn range, they also have the Bukom DK yarn range which is milled in Yorkshire and factory-dyed to ensure consistency in the colours.

And let me tell you, these colours are so striking! The yarn is a blend of 50% Bluefaced Leicester and 50% Corriedale, which makes a lovely soft but sturdy yarn. They have the same yarn blend in their handdyed range, if you want to use both solid and handdyed colours in the same project.

When I was at their market stall in Edinburgh, there were a couple of colours which jumped out to me, even though they’re all beautiful! I was especially happy to see both light and dark colours, as this would open up the way for a colourwork design. From the picture above, I chose the caramel and yellow from the second row, and the maroon and pink from the third row.

Which is your favourite colour of the Bukom rainbow?

See how the colours play together so well? Sometimes I find it difficult to make colour palettes on the spot, but in this case it was clear as day to me that I wanted to take these 4 colours home.

Stay tuned, because I’ll be giving you a sneak peek next week! (gheghe that rhymes)

Talk soon!

Happy making, Carmen