Woolly Thoughts Gallery Creations Clothes Sweaters Roman mosaic Optical illusions Baby sweaters Waistcoats Circles Hats Mittens Afghans Cushions Scarves Here Be Dragons Twists And Turns Toilet roll covers Publications Afghans for schools Activities and workshops Interactive Local tour Needle gauges Links Order Form What's new? Mental Blocks Dolls and toys Commercial patterns for sale	These jackets are made from squares. The cream one has a different cotton or linen yarn in each square. The grey has eleven shades of grey in double knitting weight. They range from almost white to charcoal. The pastel jacket was made from oddments of yarn tied into a large ball and knitted into squares at random. Each square is edged with white to create some structure to the design. This photograph of Steve Plummer and Ben Ashforth shows two recurring ideas from Woolly Thoughts. They are worked in the same double knitting yarns with at least twenty shades of grey in each sweater. Steve's sweater is called Windmills, for obvious reasons. Ben's is called Infinity because it has a square inside a square inside a square... The Infinity design is worked outwards from the smallest square. Here is another version: The Windmill design is here again in a child's coat and hat, in five shades of mohair - red, blue, green, yellow and navy. It is a very simple but effective garment, which is probably why it won second prize in the 1995 International Mohair Association Handknit Design Award. It is entirely in garter stitch and consists of 62 squares and two triangles. The two jackets below are made from squares with diagonal stripes. The squares are the same for both designs. Turning them round to stand on their points makes them look different. The zigzag jackets are a development of the diagonally striped square. Help with the construction of these, and many other designs, can be found in Second Thoughts. Here is Majid the bear. His clothes were inspired by Woolly Thoughts. He is a well-travelled bear. He accompanied the garments which were entries in a competition based on Woolly Thoughts in 1995. He was named after a 16 year old boy who was fascinated to discover that teddy bears have joints and removable clothes. Here are some more jumpers: Some very simple designs based on squares can be seen on our baby sweaters.