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A Little Harvest of Yarn… and a Giveaway!

A Little Harvest of Yarn… and a Giveaway! 🍂🧶

I have just finished  my fourth Chunky Knit Vest from my easy to follow pattern, and I absolutely love how different it feels from the others. These yarns came from the mystery bag I bought last week called “Harvester Pie”, but as I knitted, I kept thinking the colours were more like butterscotch, honeycomb, autumn leaves, toasted caramel, warm rich autumn colours. When I look at yarn for this pattern, I always have my favourites –  every stripe seemed to tell its own little story. I always save my very favourites for the neck and arm pit ribs…

The beauty of this pattern is that there is no right or wrong way to choose your colours AND I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A YARN GIVEAWAY FOR ONE PERSON TO KNIT THEIR OWN CHUNKY KNIT VEST FROM THE LEFT OVERS OF MY LAST 2 VESTS.

🎉 Yarn Giveaway!

To celebrate this latest vest, I’d love one of you to create your own version.

The remaining yarns from my Harvester Pie collection and the previous vest (pictured below) are going to One winner  who will receive the bundle of leftover yarns shown in the photograph—perfect for creating a beautifully individual vest of your own.

There is a mix of pure wool, Rowan felted tweed, lopi, and acrylic. Enough to make your own vest by plying the yarns together in whatever way you choose to create your own Chunky Knit Vest. The pattern gives ideas on what yarns to ply.

All you need to do is purchase my Chunky Knit Vest Pattern between 15th July and 31st July, and you’ll automatically be entered into the draw.  There will be one lucky winner. The pattern is £6 on Ravelry

Link to Pattern is below.

Chunky Knit Vest Pattern on Ravelry

To enter

  • Purchase the Chunky Knit Vest Pattern between 15 July and 31 July.
  • Everyone who purchases the pattern during those dates will automatically be entered.
  • One winner will be chosen after the closing date. I will draw one winner at 6pm on 31st July

I will announce the winner on Instagram – @traceydoxey and email the winner too.

The only thing I’ll ask is that the winner pays the postage to their country, wherever they are in the world.

Thank you so much for all your enthusiasm for this pattern already. Seeing your colour choices in the projects in Ravelry and in the comments on Instagram has made me really happy.   Seeing your own interpretations is one of the greatest joys of designing something like this. Every vest has its own personality, and every knitter brings their own unique selves to it.

Every vest becomes a reflection of the yarn you already have, the colours you love, and the choices you make along the way. No two will ever be the same, and I think that’s what makes knitting from stash so wonderfully exciting.  This offer is a different type of stash – it is mine that I am offering to give away.

Happy knitting,

🧶🍂💕

Here is the Ravelry pattern link again

Chunky Knit Vest pattern on Ravelry

More photos on Instagram

Happy New Year and a chance to win Shetland yarn bundle

New Year Sunrise at Stanage Edge

Happy New Year to my long-standing followers on this blog and to my new subscribers.

To celebrate the New Year, I arrived home from Japan on New Year’s Day and the next morning, I promptly went to Stanage Edge in the Peak District, which is 6 miles from my home in Sheffield,  to watch the sunrise.

I could not have imagined that I would witness the biggest Orange Wolf Super moon setting over the horizon before an equally orange sun rose opposite making a truly Golden hour.

Wolf Moon
Sun rising

The ground was covered in ice puddles and the first scattering of a salty snow.  An Icy wind cut through my coat and knitted jumper to the skin on my arms and I felt alive. Glad to be home glad to be back to the place that enriches me, time after time.

Normally I’m the only person on the edge of Stanage rocks at 7:45 am but there were small groups and a couple with a child who could not moderate the level of his own voice which carried excitedly  across the edge of the rocks

I go to this place to reconnect to the core of myself – no cars, no city, no internet.   The landscape has not changed for thousands of years. Many people know of this place and it is big enough to share because you need to be bold and brave in minus temperatures and biting winds to witness a moonset and a sunrise within half an hour while people still sleep in their warm unknowing beds. 

On the New Year, as a thank you to my followers I have posted on Instagram an opportunity to win enough yarn to knit my tree and Star beanie hat in its original coloured yarn, purchased from Jamieson & Smith in Shetland,  but some of you do not follow me on Instagram so I’m posting on here the same opportunity

I am offering one person,  who will be picked out of a draw next week, the opportunity to win the original Shetland coloured yarns to knit this gorgeous Tree and Star beanie.

To enter the drawer you have to buy the pattern for the hat.

The link to the Tree and Star hat pattern is here

If the winner of the draw is in the UK, I will post the Shetland yarn to them free, but if you live in another country other than England, then I will ask for a contribution to the postage for the winner

This hat pattern is a perfect easy starter project if you would like to knit the kaleidoscope jumper project because they both have the same easy Shetland Tree and Star Motif

I hope you’ll be following me for another year because I will be changing a few things in 2026. If you already don’t do so there are lots more images on Instagram.

Kaleidoscope Jumper Pattern is here

Here is the post on instagram – where you will find lots more photos and offers.

Happy New Year – good luck with this opportunity to win enough wonderful Shetland Yarn to knit the Tree and Star Beanie –

Happy knitting. Love Tracey