I always thought it was a bit silly when people learned to knit socks and promptly gave up knitting anything else. I’ve made a few pairs for other people over the past couple of years, but it wasn’t until I made a stripy pair for myself that the bug really bit. As soon as I’d [...]
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Louisa Harding Ginerva
Posted in knitting on Mar 22nd, 2012
Issue 34 of The Knitter dropped though my letterbox a couple of days ago, and I was immediately smitten by this lacy dress pattern. It’s Ginerva by Louise Harding, and it’s so new that there are currently only 2 projects for it on Ravelry. (One of them’s mine!) I decided straight away that I didn’t [...]
This was something of an exercise in nail biting – would it be possible to make a pair of socks from just 80 grams of yarn? The answer turned out to be yes – if you don’t mind them being short, and you’ve got a little bit of something else to use for the heels! [...]
Working weekends is a peculiar beast. I only work in the afternoons, but that leads to rather polarised mornings – either rushing around like a mad thing, or staying in bed for as long as possible. And then I don’t take time off during the week, because I feel guilty spending time on myself when [...]
Milly’s Monkey Hat
Posted in knitting on Jan 3rd, 2012
Now that we’re into the New Year, I think it’s safe to reveal some of the things I made as Christmas gifts. I don’t have photos of all the knitting because I wrapped and posted it as soon as it was finished. But I made a pair of socks and a pair of wristbands and [...]
Quarter Past Ten Scarf
Posted in knitting on Sep 6th, 2011
I liked the Ten O’Clock scarf, but wanted something a bit wider. So I added an extra column of feather-and-fan up the middle. Then I decided that I didn’t want the edges to curl so much, so I’ve added a couple of garter stitches and a yarn over at each side. Knitted from a single 200g [...]
Single Sock
Posted in knitting on Aug 25th, 2011
It’s not that I haven’t been knitting much lately, it’s just that everything I’ve been working on seems to be taking approximately a million years. Like this sock. It’s a very basic little sock: toe-up, slip stitch heel, and then a million miles of ribbing. I kept it simple of purpose because it was my [...]
smocks galore!
Posted in embroidery, knitting, writing on Jul 22nd, 2011
How exciting – I’m in a magazine! The magazine in question is a brand-new digital publication by Kate Davies, whose blog I’ve been following and whose knitting patterns I’ve been queueing for some time. So you can imagine how excited I was when she asked me whether I’d be willing to talk about smocking, and [...]
Long-Sleeved Eve
Posted in knitting on Jul 21st, 2011
This is Eve, in Colinette Giotto. I finished knitting it about six weeks ago, it’s just taken me that long to get around to sewing all the bits together. For those of you on Ravelry, you can see the details here. It’s a mash-up of two versions of the Eve pattern – the short body from [...]
Everyone knows that yarn and fabric bought while you’re on holiday doesn’t count as stash, right…? On the left is two balls of Schoppel Wolle’s “Flying Saucer” sock yarn. It’s dyed two strands at once, so that when you unwind it into two balls you can knit two identical socks. If you follow their pattern, [...]