About

Hi I’m Jeanette

My Mum taught me to knit aged because I was bored – I don’t think either of us thought it would lead to this.  . .

I can – hand knit, machine knit, crochet, hand embroider & do a little tambour beading - basically if it sits still long enough I’ll probably embellish it.

In the 20 years I’ve loved being a textile designer there’s been a lot of variety as;  a freelance designer selling both hand & machine knitted and embroidery designs, senior knit technician on a BA (Hons) degree course, a design consultant for Rowan Yarns, creator of my label ‘duppdupp’, owner of an independent yarn store, author of three books on hand knitting ‘Easy Knitted Accessories, ‘Easy Beaded Knits’ & ‘Easy Knitted Socks’, a freelance designer for Artesano Alpaca and contributing designer to UK published magazines ‘Simply Knitting’, ‘Yarn Forward’ & ’The Knitter’. My label ‘duppdupp’ was started in 2001 but I decided to do away with it earlier this year because together with books written as ‘Jeanette Trotman’ and designs published as ‘Jeanette Sloan’ it was all feeling a bit disjointed

Now if I’m not designing for magazines like ‘The Knitter’ or ‘Knitting’ I’m working on my next ‘Ask Jeanette’ for ‘Knitting’, updating my website www.jeanettesloandesign.com or talking about it all here on this blog.

Enjoy