Natalie SmartDesigner
Brighton, United Kingdom
I'm a Freelance Hand Knitwear Designer based in Brighton, UK.
I completed a City & Guilds Hand Knitting course in 2011 and have been designing ever since.
My designs and blog can be found at www.nataliesmartdesigns.com
As well as selling my own patterns I also do freelance work.
My freelance work is regularly published in Knitting Magazine and I also previously produced several designs for the Debbie Bliss Spring/Summer 2013 Magazine.
You'll see from my designs that there are many yarns I enjoy working with. Sometimes I'll find a yarn and think 'I must design something for this'. Other times I'll come up with a design idea where I need to find the right yarn to bring my design to life.
I'm fortunate enough to have a studio in Brighton where I work on all my designs.
- Knitting23 Skills
Knitting: Over 20 years
23 Skills
- Cast on & cast off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace knitting
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Stranded knitting
- Intarsia
- I-cord
- Double knitting
- Three needle cast off
- Ribbed
- Short rows
- Garter
- Modular knitting
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
- Entrelac
