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Adventures with Jacquard Ladderback

Adventures with Jacquard Ladderback

Published by on July 30, 2023 | 2 Responses

Who is Jacquard Ladderback? A late Georgian Era, gentleman thief to rival Raffles with his fiendish cunning and skill? Fiendishly cunning and skilled is right …but it’s actually a new knitting technique I’ve learnt to help with the long fairisle floats for Misurina. (It’s usually call Ladderback Jacquard but that didn’t sound as fun 😉 )

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Casting on Misurina

Casting on Misurina

Published by on July 23, 2023 | 3 Responses

Misurina is more spicy than I expected! So much going on in this little top. This week I swatched and cast on another of my aquisitions from Unravel festival in February – Misurina Tee by Caitlin Hunter. This is the pattern pic… Lace around the neck. And cables. And a big fairisle pattern with huge […]

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On The Hook

On The Hook

Published by on July 16, 2023 | 5 Responses

“What’s on the needles now?”, I hear you cry! Erm actually it’s “on the hook” – Crochet hook that is. I’ve got a little Hat Crazy the last couple of weeks – it started with this! The Rowan Margarida Hat in Rowan Cotton Glace (or Handknit Cotton.) I knew I had a bag of left […]

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Retirement of the Old and Past It

Retirement of the Old and Past It

Published by on July 9, 2023 | 2 Responses

I’m finding it hard to give up on old and dated handknits. There should be a handknit garment retirement home where they are cooed over, petted, paid compliments, and treated like venerated elders.

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What Was I Thinking?

What Was I Thinking?

Published by on July 1, 2023 | 4 Responses

Some of my knitting choices are so awful, you just have to point and laugh.

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