This lovely shawl has just come off my needles. The yarn is a new one from Debbie Bliss – Fine Donegal. The colour is Heather 10. I am absolutely in love with this yarn – I enjoyed knitting every bit of it. Ravelry Project Page I was in too much of a rush to start […]
Oh dear, look at that. More wool came home with me…and quite a lot of it this time. I managed to bring 17 balls of the new Rowan Fazed Tweed home. It’s a chunky weight yarn and it’s very soft with some lovely colours in the range. I did have a difficulty picking my favourite
The Rico Creative Cotton Aran that I bought last week has transformed into a dishcloth. It is the same stitch pattern that I used for this cowl, which was perfect as it is made on the bias. This meant I could stop increasing and start decreasing when I’d used half the yarn – so the
I finished another project recently but didn’t get any decent photographs of it. It’s a new pattern from Sirdar 4493, which has a cardigan and coat variation. I did the largest size in the coat. I just adore the collar. The yarn I used is Click DK in Blueberry, which is a really unusual deep
I have finished a few projects recently but been quite lax in photographing them. I had a little photo shoot with Mr with my plume cardigan. I’ve come to the conclusion, that I’m not a very good model – so you only get to see one photo that came out semi-well. The yarn is the
I’ve finished the Ore Cardigan that I briefly mentioned here and here. The pattern is by Sarah Hatton and from Issue 70 of The Knitter. Here’s a review of the magazine with a picture of the original. The yarn I used was Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino Silk DK in colourway, Skipper. My Ravelry Project Page.
Everyone has their go-to or workhorse cast-on. More often than not it can be a Knitted cast-on or a Long-Tailed cast-on; or perhaps the Cable cast-on. The one I tend to use is the Twisted German cast-on, also known as Old Norwegian cast-on. For speed I’m going to call it – TGCO. The reasons I
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I’ve not managed to finish the cardigan I’ve been working on, so I don’t have a huge amount to share this week. I did have a very lovely afternoon yesterday at my Mum’s house with her and a friend. It was lovely and sunny, and we sat outside under a canopy drinking fruit juice, chatting
At the weekend, we had a fabulous evening out with friends and family. It was an outdoor classical concert. We lucked out with the weather – there was scrummy food, good music and lots of laughs too. There was some balloon modelling going on – not sure whether the kids or the adults enjoyed that
We tried something a little different this year for Woolfest, mainly because I’d decided I wasn’t going to go this year and then changed my mind a bit late in the day, so it was a bit tricky finding anywhere to stay. Mr and I stayed in a camping pod for a night. We were
