Ellie Smallcombe

eBooks available as Ravelry Downloads

eBook : 3 patterns

The three Cwtch Patterns in one place!!!

eBook : 11 patterns

A collection of 11 hat patterns

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This year we have chosen our lamb names from the Hobbit by Tolkien. The naming often inspires a pattern or two.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Another design for another cattle farming friend!! This one was to hint at her raw milk business logo and in her favourite colours!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A pattern designed for my friend who has a beautiful herd of 100% grass fed cattle here in lush West Wales. This little moo cow is sure to turn heads!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Inspired by the woods where I spend most of my time in my other job as an outdoor educator!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The culmination of all the bee patterns, the Hive Shawl. Inspired by my husband’s beekeeping on our smallholding!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend?
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Since moving to the smallholding my husband has taken up beekeeping and from time to time, he brings in chunks of honeycomb or wax, once with a few eggs and baby bees in! All these treasures from the hives are so extraordinarily beautiful they inspired me to design a few patterns.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Since moving to the smallholding my husband has taken up beekeeping and from time to time, he brings in chunks of honeycomb or wax, once with a few eggs and baby bees in! All these treasures from the hives are so extraordinarily beautiful they inspired me to design a few patterns.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Since moving to the smallholding my husband has taken up beekeeping and from time to time, he brings in chunks of honeycomb or wax, once with a few eggs and baby bees in! All these treasures from the hives are so extraordinarily beautiful they inspired me to design a few patterns.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Since moving to the smallholding my husband has taken up beekeeping and from time to time, he brings in chunks of honeycomb or wax, once with a few eggs and baby bees in! All these treasures from the hives are so extraordinarily beautiful they inspired me to design a few patterns.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Since moving to the smallholding my husband has taken up beekeeping and from time to time, he brings in chunks of honeycomb or wax, once with a few eggs and baby bees in! All these treasures from the hives are so extraordinarily beautiful they inspired me to design a few patterns.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A simple Christmas tree or coniferous tree hat, for plain yarns with good stitch definition. Inspired by some of the forestry woodlands local to me here in West Wales.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A chunky quick knit, with a simple snowflake pattern. A good introduction to colour work in the round.
Knitting: Cowl
A quick and simple knit, using up some leftover sock yarn!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Here at Tyddyn Bryn we have 9 acres of established woodland and some newly planted woodland as well as some brilliant old and new hedgerows!! I am a Forest School leader as one of my other hats and I have recently rediscovered wood working. Basically I LOVE Trees and find them a source of inspiration… so here is the first pattern in my series o...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
I attended some local craft shows towards the end of last year and this Pure Welsh Yarn was crying out to me!! It had to be a hat or two!!! So the Love Hearts hat came to be!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A snuggly chunky hat pattern with a bit of vintage buttoned style!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
yardage for the 4ply which is held double, half the yardage stated for the DK hats!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Fingerless Gloves
This collection of patterns; two hats and one set of mitts were deisgned for my outdoorsy friends! They do a LOT of work outdoors and need hats for warmth, but also the facility to open up the tops to cool off a bit or poke their hair through! A real messy bun type hat!!!
Crochet: Beret, Tam
A simple knitted and crotcheted baggy style beret! This one in the picture was made with Beregere De France Alaska
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
A simple ribbed fingerless mitt that I designed for my niece in her choice of colours (pink purple and orange!) they are designed to be really stretchy and the mid sized ones I knit up for her should last a good long while!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A slipped stitch pattern requiring about three quarters of a skein of sock yarn the more variegated the better the hat looks!!!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A moss stitch and cabled hat in a chunky yarn which is both warm and stylish to wear!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A basic knit in the round chunky beanie hat!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A cute baby hat inspired by Eric Carle’s book the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Use up left over sock weight yarn to make teeny tiny newborn baby hats with this simple little pattern
Knitting: Mittens
Knitted these for my Other Half who has just started taking his rifle out onto the ranges!!
Knitting: Convertible Gloves
Double knit mittens, with a versatile flip top to make things warmer, when need or to free up your fingers when you need it!!
Knitting: Ankle Sock
Little pairs of toddler socks, just what up you need to use up leftover sock yarn balls, after you have made an adult size pair of socks
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
A simple lace look knitted triangular shawl with a frilly edge!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A sock weight yarn hat, which is slightly slouchy with optional stripe, so a good option for using up leftovers!!
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
A simple pair of socks with the heart shaped lace detail from the cwtch shawl along the top of the foot and up the ankle!
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
An elbow length pair of mitts with the heart shaped lace design from the cwtch shawl down the back of the hand and arm.
Knitting: Cowl
A leafy lacy cowl, lightweight enough for the transition of the seasons, but a warm enough to layer up!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Cardigan
Both the Hat and Cardie are sized for a Prem baby
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A cute simple easy to knit baby hat!! A quick knit for any babies in your life!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
My Baby snug as a bug in a rug pattern sized up as my niece and friends grew up!!!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Depth - 15 inches after blocking
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Scarf
A pattern that’s is a simple way to start triangular shawls, with a simple ruffle edge!
Knitting: Animal Toy
This is a novelty Christmas pattern!!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A super cute baby hat inspired by my favourite Spring flower, the tulip!
Knitting: Scarf
My friend bought a beret from me before Xmas and decided she wanted a scarf to go with it. She works with me in school and gloves on the play yard aren’t the done thing especially with the manual handling (too slippy!!) so I made a scarf with pockets to keep her handies warm!!
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks, Booties
Three patterns in one!!! Bootees, socks and ballet shoes for babies!!! All in super soft baby DK yarn!!
Crochet: Cleaning - Other
Use any chunky scraps of really washable yarn you have hanging about!
Knitting: Rug
A chunky knit cabled blanket designed for my friends first baby as a floor blanket for the baby to lie on with plenty of texture for them to feel!!
Crochet: Purse / Handbag
A cute mini bag for mini girls or great for holding odd bits for a night out on the tiles!
Crochet: Mittens
Another one for the grown ups but in a duck form!!
Crochet: Mittens
Why do the kids get all the fun patterns!!! Here’s one for us adults who have not grown up completely yet!
Knitting: Headband
You will also need 2 buttons and a 4mm cable needle. I hopefully have written this for complete cable amateurs!!! as I was a very short time ago!!
Knitting: Collar
I had a ball of a chunky/aran wool and started to make a scarf for myself - unfortunately I ran out of the wool and the yarn store did not have anymore of it. So I got a bit creative and made a neck snuggle that no long dips in my soup like my scarf used to!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Another design for my niece!! With a Christmas flair! I am sure the little monsters fiddly fingers will love the holly and berries to twiddle around her fingers!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
I wrote this pattern for my niece who is now 16 months old so the pattern has grown with her starting right from the newborn size! She particularly enjoyed the middle variant which I added a crotchet flower to she spent more time pulling it off to play with the flower than she did wearing it!!
Knitting: Electronics Cozy