US tour part two

The second store I visited on my tour was Churchmouse yarns on Bainbridge Island. I was utterly enchanted by both the store and island. I am not sure if it was the lovely staff, all that tea or the very English weather, but I felt utterly at home. If anyone is visiting the Seattle area I can thoroughly recommend getting the ferry over to the island, it has a very calm and creative atmosphere.

A wardrobe of Brooklyn Tweed yarn - every knitters dream!

 I was really sad to leave the team there but had to catch a flight to my next store over in snowy Canada.

Amazing Threads

I have just finished my first set of workshops on my US tour at the aptly named Amazing Threads. The owner Bobbi and her staff were amazing, my students were amazing and the yarns ... well in case you couldn't guess were amazing! I have a couple of days to enjoy Seattle then I am onto Churchmouse in Bainbridge Island.

More details of my US/Canadian tour

I just thought I would add some extra details about my upcoming tour.

Amazing Threads, Minnesota 

23rd Feb, 9.30am-2.30pm 
Amending a Pattern/Basics of Pattern Writing
24th Feb, 10am-1pm
Understanding Lace 

Churchmouse yarns, Bainbridge Island

1st March 6.00-8.00pm 
 Meet the Designer: Pattern & Book Signing
2nd March 4.00-6.00pm
‘Martha’ Meet-Up
3rd March 10.00 am-1.00pm
Understanding Lace and Designing Your Own Lace Charts
3rd March 2.30-5.30pm
Understanding Texture: Infinite Possibilities in Two Stitches


    Rivercity yarns, Edmonton

4th March 6.00-8.00pm

Meet the Designer: Pattern & Book Signing

5th March 1.00pm-4.00pm
Understanding Lace and Designing Your Own Lace Charts
6th March 1.00-7.00pm
Amending a pattern/Basics of pattern writing

Knitting Time,  Lethbridge

8th March 6.00-800pm
Book signing and trunk show
9th March 10.30am-5pm
Amending a pattern/basics of pattern writing
10th March 1.30-4.30pm
Understanding Texture

Haus of Stitches,Humboldt 

15th March 5pm-8pm
Understanding Texture 
16th March 10am-3.30pm
Amending a pattern/basics of pattern writing
17th March 1pm-4pm
Understanding Lace and Designing Your Own Lace Chart

Workshop tour of the US and Canada

I will shortly be heading off to a series of book signings and workshops in America and Canada.  
I have added links to as many of the stores as I can below just in case there is one in your area. I will be book signing and teaching at the stores and at Churchmouse yarns we will have a Martha cardigan based photo shoot.
Amazing threads
Churchmouse yarns
Rivercity yarns
Knitting time

10 simple projects for cosy babies

I just thought I would share some images of projects from my latest book. Some of these unfortunately didn't make it to the printed copy as we had too many cute pictures! Hopefully it should be available at Rowan stockists over the next couple of weeks.

  

Winter wonderland

Whilst I am not the greatest fan of snow I have to admit it does make everything look magical. So I thought I would share a couple of pictures including some of my parents super cute dog Alfie who at all other times is almost impossible to photograph as he is so dark. 

(images courtesy of M Armstrong 2013)

I also had a short break in London where I visited the wonderful geffrye museum which I can thoroughly recommend. I also had a great evening at MEATliquor and purl london. I am afraid they were both far to dark to get any photos but the cocktails at Purl london were out of this world!

Rowan Studio 30

Last year I was lucky enough to be asked to work on Rowan Studio 30. This however was a Rowan Studio brochure with a difference its all for trendy little ones! I am really pleased with the finished results, obviously the super cute models really help! So here are a few of the projects to give you a quick taster.