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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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Drug Dealer Scales

Drug Dealer Scales

Published by on June 28, 2023 | 2 Responses

It occurred to me that in my last post I was talking about quite small and precise quantities of yarn – 26g of a 50g skein for example. My kitchen scales are not quite that accurate so I bought myself this fabulous little gadget from amazon. Ascher Portable Digital Scale It has loads of functions […]

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I-cord bind off - Armholes

Rocking Those Stripes

Published by on June 25, 2023 | 10 Responses

Here’s a FO that has just flown off the needles – The Rock It tee by Tanis Lavallee I’m so happy with this! I’ll show you my FO first… I fell in love with this at the Unravel Yarn Festival at Farnham Maltings in Surrey in February. Unravel is a wonderful yarn fest on independent […]

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Sea Glass Sweater

Sea Glass Sweater

Published by on June 20, 2023 | 5 Responses

I definitely owe you some knitting eyecandy 😀 How about this? This is the fabulous Sea Glass Sweater by Wool & Pine. Made between Jan and March 2022. It is a wonderfully inventive top down pattern made entirely of 1×1 fairisle, changing both colours every row. It’s intended as a stashbuster to use up all […]

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Upgrading Damn, Knit & Blast It

Published by on May 9, 2023 | 2 Responses

If anyone is still reading or getting subscriber emails, I’m in the process of upgrading this blog, moving it to faster servers and starting to blog again after a 4 year absence. I will try and migrate all my subscribers over but, in case it doesn’t work, please check back at the same website address […]

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Finally Finished the Monstrous Beast

Finally Finished the Monstrous Beast

Published by on March 17, 2019 | 5 Responses

It started 10 years ago, in 2009, in a yarn buying frenzy in the John Lewis Sale. I joyfully skipped to the checkout with 20 balls of delicious black Rowan RYC Silk Wool DK in my clutches. “That will make Ben a super jumper”, I thought….. Eight years later, in 2017, my constant waving of […]

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