Craft - Lauren Aston Designs

Five yarny things to make for your festive table

Hello lovelies! Hosting Christmas this year? Impress your guests with these five yarny delights that you can have on your dinner table. 1. Treemendous Table Runner We have to kick off with our brand new Treemendous Table Runner pattern. It really is glorious and sets the scene perfectly for your festive table display. Available in […]

Fill your boots with our top Stocking Fillers

Hello loves! How ARE you? Suddenly it seems that Christmas is literally around the corner and we’re starting to slightly panic… not necessarily from a business perspective, but the fact that none of us have finished our Christmas shopping yet! While talking in the studio, it seems that filling the stockings is one of the […]

Knitting accounts we love to follow on the ‘gram

Hello loves! How ARE you?! Things are all good here at LAD HQ – we may not be too busy with orders (now the sun’s out the knitting seems to have slowed down) but there’s loads going on behind the scenes. Last week we had a Christmas photoshoot for a well known lifestyle mag 🙊🙊 so […]

Mental Health Awareness Week – how craft can help

Hello loves, This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this is something very close to our hearts here at LAD. This last year especially has been tough on a lot of you, and we have had so many messages telling us how much knitting has helped you during lockdown. It’s not surprising that more […]

Knitting on Circular Needles

Hey Gang! How are you?! I hope you’re enjoying the sunshine (if you’ve got it) as much as we are here at LAD HQ! The warmer days are wonderful and we’re loving being able to meet up with a few friends again. Lauren is still busy being brilliant new mum to gorgeous Livi so it’s […]

Free Bib Pattern Add-on

Hey LAD’s! Today’s blog is a cheeky little free add-on to a current pattern for you! The eagle-eyed of you may see that the bib in the blog header is a variation on our SweaterVest pattern – and you’d be right! And how cute does it look??! ‘Simply The Vest’ Sweatervest We launched the sweater […]

LAD joins Ribblr!

Hello LAD’s! I hope you’ve all had a good couple of weeks – the talk of things starting to return to ‘normal’ seems to have hit us all in different ways. I certainly hope you’re coping okay with both the anxiety and excitement of it all. We’re here for any knitting or self-care support you […]

New Giant Knit Blanket Patterns

Hello Pals! How are you? I hope you’re enjoying the sunshine and not tooooo hot! In a strange twist of fate I’m going to talk about the hottest possible thing today…. Giant Knit Blankets! So let’s all sit in the shade with a ice cold drink and a fan directed at us and pretend we’re […]

New Massive Mohair Yarn

Hello My Babes NEW NEW NEWNESS So we launched some new Mohair yarn at the weekend and I’m IN LOVE WITH HOW MUCH YOU LOVE IT! I wanted to give you a little introduction to it as we were originally planning on launching it with a few kits but because of THIS *wildly gestures around* […]

Free GRL PWR banner Pattern

Hello lovelies Happy Humpday! I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far and that you enjoyed the weekend. This week I come bearing a free pattern in honour of International Women’s day, which I imagine you know was last Sunday. I really enjoyed reading so many inspirational stories on Sunday and wanted to share […]

Arm Knitting Tutorial

Oh Hello Pals, I hope you’re well and having a lovely week. thank you for your wonderful support about the new website and for all your orders over the weekend with the celebratory discount code (if you missed it, everyone signed up to our newsletter was sent a discount code on saturday so if you’re […]