Erssie Major
Knitting and Crochet Designer and Author of Patterns

Erssie Major has been knitting and crocheting on and off since she was four years old, and has been designing since childhood too. Her first officially published pattern appeared around 2005 for a well known UK children's charity. Whilst working as a designer she has also worked as a pattern checker, a project manager, a tutor and a knitter/maker for other well known designers.

Erssie has had around 200 patterns published over the past seven years. Her own designs have been mainly, but not limited to, accessories in a simple and quirky style ranging from the whimsical to the downright alternative. However, she has also produced some classic and timeless traditional pieces too and has a flair for sketching and designing to any specific brief required by publishers and then for realising that design as planned and following up with clear, well crafted patterns. You can find collections of her self published patterns as well as a list of magazines and books (see the menu above) in which she has been featured on this website.

 Erssie writes a blog entitled Skeinspotting: A World of Erssie Knits where she features items of interest to other knitters as well as yarn reviews, book reviews and film reviews. She makes original charts for making motifs in needlecrafts and these are available as downloads as well as her own line of patterns.

She has also been involved with the Castoff Knitting Club for Boys and Girls where she was an assistant tutor in workshops at the Fashion and Textile Museum of London. Here she met and collaborated with Rachael Matthews (course head tutor) on her crochet book Hookorama: By Rachael Matthews

When Erssie is not knitting or crocheting, which is hardly ever, she enjoys reading and looking after her two rescued greyhounds. Occasionally her interests collide resulting in amusing pictures of hounds modelling knitwear. Currently she strikes a balance between self published, and other publishers' work with most work being for herself (including self published patterns and books) and so has the luxury of being able to cherry pick her jobs for other publishers and pursue only work she finds is worthwhile.

Erssie has a small studio in a residential house in London, UK. Her floor to ceiling yarn stash in the studio requires a written inventory and her bookshelves recently collapsed under the weight of patterns and craft books.