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Forest Canopy Shawl
I love this pattern! It was my first shawl and it was so easy, quick and fun to knit. I’m sure I’ll be making loads more. I used cashmere & silk yarn from Violet Green, quite lovely stuff if a looser twist than I usually like. I was rather surprised at how it knitted up, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bright Nordic Mittens
Though not quite as bright as they look in these photos!
I just couldn’t get any photos to come out looking remotely the right colour when I had them laid out flat. The colours are much more true in this one:
I love how the design works with the shape of my hand! I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Wristwarmers pattern
Finally! There really are reasons for the delay this time, but I won’t bore you with them.
Anyway, I love these. I can’t believe how much difference in warmth they make, without getting in the way as I often find even fingerless mitts do. I think they look really cute peeping out of the ends of [...]
I’ve been so lazy
When it comes to updating this blog. Well, I have been ill, and then busy, and then ill again, but mostly it’s just down to laziness.
I have been knitting in the meantime, though! There are many, many projects on the go. I’ve finished some, too. I made a pair of socks for mum, which I’m [...]
Basketweave socks
I’ve been very very bad at updating, I know. I’ll try to catch up with food posts at some point, but this is the last pair of socks I made, I finished them about a month ago I think:
Apologies for the poor quality of the first photo, and the flabby thigh in the second.
Rowan 4-ply [...]
Merino socks
Knitted on 2mm Clover bamboo dpns with Socrates hand-dyed merino in Genevieve (I used 68g.). It’s the first time I’ve knitted with merino, and I can’t believe how soft and springy it is! Gorgeous stuff, although I did find this yarn a little splitty, and they feel wonderful on my feet.
I love the way the [...]
Feather & Fan silk scarf
Well, sort of feather & fan. I was doing the pattern from memory and completely forgot about the wrong-side knit rows until I was far enough in to influence my decision that I didn’t really care. So it doesn’t lie quite as flat as it could, but it doesn’t really matter.
Blocking was really [...]
Sizing of Tiny Tulips
I did mean to include this information in the first place, but in my eagerness to get the pattern up I forgot, sorry!
First off, I knitted them on 2.5mm needles (16cm Clover bamboo, I luuurve them) at 8 stitches to the inch. The “tiny” is particularly appropriate as my feet are only a UK [...]
Tiny Tulips sock pattern
I know it’s a horrendously cutesy name, but then they’re horrendously cutesy socks. I hope the pattern all makes sense as it’s my first attempt at writing one, but I think it should do. These are by far my best-fitting and most comfortable pair of socks yet, I love them! They’re in Regia cotton, which [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 20 so far )Spring has sprung
Two suitably fresh and breezy creations, first off some straightforward socks in a cotton Regia – they feel absolutely wonderful on my feet!
And an egg with spring flowers:
Apologies for the blurriness of the shot of the daffodil side. I don’t like the hard lines between the blocks of colour, but by the time I’d realised [...]
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