Lately, I've been knitting a lot. The only downside to this is that it's left less time for blogging about knitting. I'm working on the prototype of my first cardigan design. You'd think this'd be a quick process since I'm working plain ol' stockinette in a single self-striping yarn, but... no. It's taking forever. I even did a recount to check that I hadn't accidentally made an extra six sleeves because that would at least explain the slowness. It's not as though I'm making it out of Continue Reading
Meeting The Knitwear Designers Of Tomorrow
The latest Blogstars meetup at Stylecraft's Yorkshire mill happened last weekend. In my hazardously overactive imagination, you were all there with me because frankly, you'd've loved it. It was a weekend filled with yarn, and laughter, and creativity, with a side order of snowy hills, and a few glasses of wine. This pretty much achieves 'bingo' on my list of favourite things. Let's take it from the top. On Friday morning, I waved goodbye to the twinnage and the stoic spouse, loaded up the car Continue Reading
Definitely Don’t Try This At Home, Folks
I finished a thing! It's the Ardelise cardigan by Vanessa Smith, and the yarn is Cascade 220 Sport, in Dark Plum. I wanted a cardigan that goes with everything, and dark purple goes with a lot of colours - or at least it goes with the sort of shades that I wear. I've strategically photographed it to mask all the little mistakes and inconsistencies, and my great grandmother's brooch isn't just there to look pretty (though it does a fine job of that). All the little faults happened because Continue Reading