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Vikki Haffenden

A website and blog about textiles (especially knitting), and other things….

  • Blog posts
  • ‘Translating Between Hand and Machine Knitting’, the book that is quite simply, ‘…your best ever buy as a machine or hand knitter’
  • Creative machine knitting
  • Hand knitting
  • Spinning yarns
  • Natural Dyeing
  • Crochet
  • Sewing stories
  • Media
  • Knittofit
  • Academic research and collaborative activities
  • Workshops and community events
  • Errata to patterns
  • Reflections on food and cooking
  • podcast

Eco-Spa Designer facecloth

See below to download the full pattern, and for advice on substituting a different yarn when knitting the pattern.

Eco Spa Designer facecloth patternDownload
Advice on yarn substitution for facecloth patternDownload

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The Knitting Thingamabob

A podcast about textiles (machine and hand knitting in particular), and other textile and fibre based things....

A podcast about machine knitting, hand knitting, hand spinning and related textile practises.

Vikki Haffenden

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  • Academic research and collaborative activities
    • Collaboration with Juliana Sissons at the V&A
    • Textiles and scabies
  • Colour grid
  • Cooking and recipes
    • Getting a great crust on bread
    • Reflections on food and cooking
      • Other useful sourdough hints and tips
      • Raisin yeast experiment – 1
      • Raisin Yeast Sourdough Bread
      • Still making sourdough, and converting others…
      • What does autolyse the flour mean?
  • Creative machine knitting
    • ‘Translating Between Hand and Machine Knitting’, the book that is quite simply, ‘…your best ever buy as a machine or hand knitter’
    • A very neat double-bed cast on edge
    • Grafting stitches
    • Notes to support Vikki’s Designaknit 8 workshop
    • The Knitmaster/Silver Reed SC3 Linker – what can go wrong?
    • Working with DesignaKnit 8
  • Crochet
  • Designaknit software
  • Doggy things
  • Dyeing wool
    • Natural Dyeing
      • Making yarn into hanks for dyeing
  • Errata to patterns
  • Hand knitting
    • Eco-Spa Designer facecloth
    • Infinity Scarf – a multi-version pattern to suit all knitters
  • Knittofit
  • Media
  • Pattern for Sew Sussex Magic Makers face mask
  • Replacing the cam lever and tension dial on a Knitmaster 700 knitting machine
  • Sewing stories
    • DIY cotton face masks – please use these free resources to make masks for keyworkers.
  • Spinning yarns
    • Aldon Amos find
    • Bluebird tops – chain plied
    • Carding for art yarn
    • Choosing a new drive band
    • Converting my Ashford Traditional single drive spinning wheel to double drive
    • Drum carding – fine tuning my technique
    • Drum carding in the sunshine
    • Fibre preparation – raw fleece
    • Fixing a creaky Ashford Traveller spinning wheel after fitting a double treadle kit
    • Making a cover for Ashford Traveller
    • Motorized drum carder
    • Tackling some simpler aspects of ‘art yarn’ spinning
  • The Knitting Thingamabob; a podcast about machine knitting and hand knitting, with a hefty serving of hand spinning on the side.
  • Workshops and community events
    • Machine Knitting Workshop 9th November, Brighton

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