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Knitting My Plotulopi Lopapeysa

Knitting My Plotulopi Lopapeysa

Published by on June 3, 2016 | 4 Responses

I said my “Icelandic project” was too big for the train now – wanna see?! I’m making the Afmæli Lopapeysa in the strange, unspun plotulopi yarn I talked about in my Iceland! post. It is worked in the round from the bottom up. You make the body and two sleeves then join them into the joke for […]

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Iceland!

Iceland!

Published by on May 2, 2016 | 3 Responses

I’ve been to Iceland! No, not the frozen food store – the lovely country 😀 I’ve just had a “big” birthday and the lovely Ben surprised me with a trip to Reykjavik over Easter. (If anyone is rude enough to ask, the answer is “21” 😉 ) I’ve wanted to visit Iceland for a long […]

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The Ones I Missed

The Ones I Missed

Published by on January 14, 2015 | Leave a response

I’ve just been looking at writting my Blogiversary post, summarizing the year’s knitting, and realized with horror – there are some projects I’ve never photographed or blogged! So here is a quick and dirty blog post of the ones I missed, Completed Knit Reports at the end… The Little Red Hat… A project to use up […]

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Flossie is Done!

Flossie is Done!

Published by on February 8, 2014 | 7 Responses

Reknitting the body of Flossie really didn’t take very long – and I’m glad I did it. I clearly should have made the small size – silly Susan 🙁 A quick note on yarn amounts – the pattern calls for 12 balls for medium and 10 for a small. I got the medium out of […]

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Should Have Known Better

Should Have Known Better

Published by on January 18, 2014 | 2 Responses

I’m very happy to tell you about my successes so I feel it’s only fair to share the disasters with you too … I should have know better than to try knitting Chunky Wool again 🙁 But the lovely red Rowan Drift (same gauge as Big Wool) at half price was too hard to resist…. […]

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Worst EVER!

Published by on February 21, 2010 | 9 Responses

Three guesses how Ronnie, the Big Wool Sloppy Joe turned out… Here’s a clue… Yep, it’s bonfire time. I finished the beast last week but have been so disapointed, I couldn’t bring myself to blog it 🙁 It is huge. It’s probably too huge for my sister too. I fact – it’s too huge for […]

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Big Wool, You WILL Submit To My Will…

Published by on January 31, 2010 | 5 Responses

Knitting my sister some quick and fun hats has kicked my knitting mojo back to life. It also helped that I had to be in the West Country this week for work so was able to make a flying visit to Carol on the way home – she loves the hats and takes half and […]

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Bloody Big Wool!

Published by on January 17, 2010 | 11 Responses

I should know better. I don’t have much luck with projects with mega chunky yarn. So why, Oh why readers, when I was struggling to find my knitting mojo with Catrin, did I decide to splurge on 10 balls of Rowan Big wool to make this huge snuggle-fest of a jumper? It’s Ronnie from the […]

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