Making Light

And MoonbeamsPolka Dots and Moonbeams is a jazz standard, popular in the 1940s and 50s, when dotty dresses were in fashion. Listen to the lyrical 1949...

Blue MonkNamed for the famous 12 bar blues composed by Theolonius Monk, and first recorded in 1954. Like its melodic namesake, the progression of this...

CiarA bold, oversized sweater featuring graphic two-tone colourwork and plush half-twisted rib.SizingFinished chest circumference: 131 (143.5, 155, 16...

ClanjamfrieA hoody celebrating the recent planetary alignment in its orbiting, circular motifs. Clanjamfrie is a word that appears in reference to pla...

DirkenA simple, structural, slouchy hat. With various spellings, in both Scots and Gaelic, a dirken is a pine coneSizesOne size to fit head with 51-56...

Dorchas / SolasThe Scottish Gaelic words for darkness and light. Which will you choose for your sweater?SizingFinished chest circumference: 92.5 (105,...

FleeroIn Orcadian and Shetlandic, fleero means floaty or flyaway, while in Nordic languages, the word can mean to grin or giggle. Knit this shawl, and...

Light WavesFloat away with a fun multi-directional knit.SizingTotal garment circumference (front edge to front edge):105 (113, 129, 137, 153.5) cm / 4...

Lilias Day A yoke pullover, with an arched garland motif. Lilias Day is a festival celebrated in Kilbarchan, in Scotland, in which the village’s arche...

Ootlier 5: Light WavesPhotography by Tom BarrFor the fifth edition of Ootlier, Tom takes us on a winter journey, exploring the interactions between th...

SmocketA comfortable smock-style pullover with a useful pocket worked in textured twisted stitches.SizingFinished chest circumference: 143 (165, 187.5...

SonsieA colourwork hat for cold winter days. Sonsie is a wonderful Scots word meaning jolly, cheery, and propitious.SizesBeanie: to fit head with 51-5...

Sprung RhythmA sprung rhythm is a metrical system devised by innovative nineteenth-century poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in which a line’s irregularly ...