Trish Roberts
Welshpool, United Kingdom
Hello! My name's Trish and I'm from Mid Wales. By day, I work in an office, pretending I know how to use a computer. By night (and weekend, of course!) I knit and crochet. A lot!
I started my woollen adventure in my early twenties because I'd seen my gran making things and I thought it would be nice to have a go. She kindly showed me the basics and also supplied me with the needles, hooks and wool to get started. My first attempts were uninspiring (/wonky!) scarves that took entire seasons and looked like they'd been made by a small (and blind-folded) child. Wearing oven gloves. Then, by chance, I picked up a Jean Greenhowe booklet in a charity shop and was introduced to the idea of making things, ACTUAL THINGS, out of wool. Since then, knitting and crochet have become life-changing obsessions and, at the start of 2016, I set myself the challenge of designing toys from scratch. It's been a lot of fun and, in 2017, my knitted fish featured in the 11 July edition of Woman's Weekly!
- Knitting14 Skills
Knitting: 5 to 10 years
14 Skills
- Cast on & bind off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Knitting in the round
- Stranded knitting
- Intarsia
- I-cord
- Short rows
- Garter
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Provisional cast on
- Crochet12 Skills
Crochet: 5 to 10 years
12 Skills
- Chain
- Slip stitch
- Single crochet
- Double crochet
- Increase & decrease
- Surface crochet
- Half double crochet
- Magic Ring
- Front/Back post stitch
- Double treble crochet
- Treble crochet
- Working in the round
