Kath AndrewsDesigner
United Kingdom
Living in North Wales since 2004, I love to knit, sew, make bobbin lace and embroider and am starting to learn to spin with a drop spindle. When designing I particularly like to focus on lace, cables and Fair Isle and other colour-work techniques, having developed these skills through a City and Guilds qualification in Hand Knit Design which I completed in 2013.
I thoroughly believe in the therapeutic benefits of knitting and am rarely seen without needles in hand. I taught music full-time for 21 years until 2018 when I realised I needed to change the pace and decided to follow my dream of working with yarn full-time and I now design and teach knitting workshops. I love reading both Tudor and science-fiction, exploring ever more of the amazing Welsh countryside with my wife and experimenting with vegan cookery.
I have been publishing my designs, both in the UK and US, since 2012.
- Knitting27 Skills
Knitting: Over 20 years
27 Skills
- Cast on & bind off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace Work
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Stranded knitting
- Intarsia
- Brioche
- I-cord
- Double knitting
- Three needle cast off
- Steeks
- Ribbed
- Tubular cast on/off
- Short rows
- Garter
- Modular knitting
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Moebius
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
- Entrelac
- Crochet8 Skills
Crochet: Over 10 years
8 Skills
- Chain
- Slip stitch
- Single crochet
- Double crochet
- Increase & decrease
- Magic Ring
- Front/Back post stitch
- Working in the round
