Gardengate Disasters
This is a tale of woe. And a new love, disaster, resurrection and final acceptance of failure.
…my fun with Gardengate by Jenifer Steingass…twice…
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Lunenburg – Different Kinda Shortrows
Lunenberg uses a different and ingenious method for shortrows.
At least – I hadn’t seen this before and, at first, I was mightily confused. I thought I’d write a quick post incase anyone else is as confused as me.
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International Yarn Smuggling
Knitting brings out the criminal mastermind in me. My global network of knitting accomplices, assisted in covertly importing “the good stuff” for my next project. Was it Cracksilk Haze? (Rowan Kidsilk Haze to the unaddicted – one ball is never enough to satisfy!) Did it involve Drug Dealer Scales? No, this is Canadian branch of […]
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Love My Advent Sorrel
Oh My! I really love this Advent Sorrel even more now it’s finished 😍 She is warm and soft and perfect for an English mid-summer (which is very cold this year). It took 3 different skeins of green to finish the sleeves (Which look a little long in this picture??). I managed to bend all […]
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First Sorrel
I promised to show you my first Sorrel, made with Yarn for the Soul’s light fingering in 2021. Fell in love with the “Midnight is a Lonely Place” colourway as it reminded me of Van Gogh’s Starry Night (just been to an immersive Van Gogh exhibition!!) – Can you see what I was seeing? Most […]
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Advent Sorrel – A Head-Scratcher
Advent Calendar mini skeins are delicious and addictive but a swine to use if you don’t want a shawl. Enter the Iridium inspired 2023 Advent Calendar from The Wool Kitchen. As it’s June it’s OK to show a spoiler of all the yarns in order… I loved the way they all blended and flowed into […]
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Zakami Yarns Inspired Snuggly Jumper
Back from delinquent blogging after another health drama (under control now). After getting more and more tired and myself increasingly out of breath (like gasping for air after walking up the stairs or stopping several times walking up a hill that I ran up last year), I discovered I had several massive clots in my […]
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Midwinter – Fun with the Back!
I have cracked on with my Midwinter cushion and sewn together two cushion panels. Wanna see? I’m really happy with these… Sewing the blocks together was very fiddley as the dots in the edging of each block made it scream if each stitch was not perfectly aligned. I have learnt that, in mattress stitch, you […]
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Midwinter Cushion
Rowan have been doing a Knitalong for Martin Storey’s Midwinter Blanket. (You need to sign up but the pattern, videos etc are free) This is the pattern pic of the blanket, made up of separately knitted fair isle squares in Rowan Felted Tweed… This immediately appealed to me – partly because of the potential to […]
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After the Rain – Love it!
I finished After the Rain a couple of weeks ago – Oh Wow do I love that yoke pattern! … but I only got around to doing the obligatory photo shoot today – Bad Susan! I won’t tease you – here she is… Last time I spoke to you I’d just started the yoke pattern […]
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