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Lunenburg - Different Kinda Shortrows

Lunenburg – Different Kinda Shortrows

Published by on July 25, 2024 | 1 Response

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

International Yarn Smuggling

Published by on July 18, 2024 | 2 Responses

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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Midwinter Cushion

Midwinter Cushion

Published by on October 31, 2023 | 5 Responses

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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Green Gifts

Green Gifts

Published by on September 17, 2023 | 3 Responses

Lucky me – it’s been a week of green gifts – knitterly and otherwise 😀

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Blue Things

Blue Things

Published by on September 3, 2023 | 4 Responses

I’ve had Blue theme the last couple of weeks – the colour not the mood! Both my latest Knitting WIP and my DIY projects are the same shade of blue!

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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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Brioche on the Beach

Brioche on the Beach

Published by on November 27, 2018 | 6 Responses

My brioche history is shameful. I was a coward. I procrastinated for over 2  years! March 2016, I taught myself the basics from this book…Knitting Fresh Brioche by Nancy Marchant And blogged my sample knits here, “Fun with Brioche, Burping and Barking” and fully intended to make the lovely Glen scarf by Laura Whittington , a […]

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Too Many WIPS and Some Tartan

Too Many WIPS and Some Tartan

Published by on January 15, 2017 | 4 Responses

I was horrified to discover I have four WIPs – you know how I like to be the “One WIP Girl”, being oh so smug about how quickly I finish an item because I work on one thing at a time? I’ve fallen off that wagon! 😮 I had intended to spend the long Christmas […]

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A Persian Adventure

A Persian Adventure

Published by on May 30, 2016 | 3 Responses

My current “Icelandic project” has now got too big for carrying on the train for a commuting project (more of that later!). What to do?….. …Find something in my obese stash that’d be Okish? ……Stare blankly out of the train window and waste good knitting time? ………Rush out and buy a huge, new and  exciting project […]

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