The Importance of Knitting in Daily Life on the Aran Islands


Una McDonagh is a native of the Aran Islands and one of our favourite knitting experts. Here she gives us a short history of the Aran sweater & its connection with Inisheer. I live on the island of Inisheer which is the smallest of the three Aran Islands that are located six miles from the […]

To create a cable without a cable needle you just manually move the stitches around until they’re in the position you want. Here you can see it worked for a 2 by 2 left cross cable. With a Cable Needle: Slip 2 stitches onto the cable needle and hold at the front of the work. […]