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Louise Tilbrook Designs

Hi and welcome to my corner of the internet. I’m Louise, a Knitter, pattern designer and blogger. I’m also owned by cats and am never without a cup of strong coffee in my hand.

You can find my designs on my website, on my Payhip site and also on Ravelry.

In terms of social media I’m most active on Threads for chat and Instagram for pretty photos. and I also run a vibrant and chatty, 20k-strong Facebook group for Knitters called Everyday Knitter.

I have a weekly newsletter which comes out every Friday and I also write regular pieces on Substack - about life, knitting and everything else.


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View fullsize Finally, we have a cooler morning and I woke up feeling as though I'd had a good night's sleep rather than being slow cooked for 7 hours. The hot summer has not been kind to this menopausal woman - my HRT patches have made a huge difference to my ge
View fullsize For me this month is going to be slow and intentional. For pretty much all of my life September has meant back to school/work and a renewed push towards "getting stuff done" before the end of the year. This year, for the first time I'm not
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View fullsize Yesterday may have been 26 degrees and as humid as hell but I was still determined to dig my autumn mug out of the back of the cupboard and return it to my regular "brew rotation" September is the start of autumn and I will therefore be kn
View fullsize Possibly my favourite thing about garter stitch, asymmetric shawls is their endless adaptability. This is my Fuss Free Festival shawl but knit in a larger size using 3 colours. The random striping was achieved with dice rolls - I "borrowed&quo
View fullsize Hands up - who is excited for autumn? I know I am. Every year I totally ignore brown shades until the 1 September comes around and then I'm magnetically drawn to them. Like iron filings to a magnet. No idea what I'm going to make yet but I'm havi
View fullsize For the first time ever I think I managed to pick up stitches evenly along a piece of knitting. I'm doing the Lush cardigan by TinCanKnits and you have to knit the yoke, block it and then pick up stitches for the collar along one edge and stitches f
View fullsize It doesn't look like much right now, I grant you, but I have high hopes for this Lush cardigan. I've just finished the lace yoke - I'll wet block it tomorrow and check how it measures up. The last one I did was too small across the shoulders so I w

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