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‘I don’t get it. The body is a perfect fit. Why is it so tight around my arms?!?‘ The reason turned out to be a difference in the gauge between their circular knitting and their flat knitting. The whole of the body of the cardigan had been worked flat in rows at a bang-on gauge … Just Ask!
Yes, last Friday was a hot one, but an Indian summer this September is not. Never mind socks, Brontë and I are back in boots now. The heating may not be on yet, but Autumn definitely is. And we can’t stop makng knitting plans. There are plainly too many in the list right now so I’ve … Let’s get this autumn started
Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 27.13-17) Far be it from me to break up the Woo-hoo-it’s-autumn festivities (I really do love this time of year), but I feel like there’s a jumper in the room we really need to discuss. … ‘Tis better to have knit and frogged
..and Starting new things so here’s handy little quiz to help you work out which way to go: There’s a storm cloud hovering above the flats on the other side of the road. Rain is forecast for most the rest of the week, and it was decidedly nippy when you left home this morning without any … S is for September
We’re rounding off this year’s KYOS series with a last Vitamin D-soaked blast of projects to see you through the end of August festivals and sand dune snoozes. These are the last minute ones that you can squeeze into your hand luggage just before you set off, and might even be able to eek out … Knit Your Own Summer: The packs up small edit
There’s a preciousness to the time we have for summer holidays which can make the task of deciding what knitting to take especially tricky. Do you choose effortless easy knits to zone-out with, or complex adventurous ones you’ve finally got the headspace to focus on? Should you make it lightweight because that’s lovely in the … Knit Your Own Summer Returns!
“My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights.“ In an article in the London Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, George Orwellgoes into delightful detail about a pub … Daydreaming a wool shop
There’s a draftiness to the interior of the shop which has its perks when the weather gets warmer. In the winter we layer up against the cold air which has an almost permanent residence in the lofty high cielings, but that same chill offers a welcome escape from the intensity of the summer heat which … This nicheness just got nichier
“It’s a bit like when you’re reading one of those Russian dynastic epics. You mustn’t put it down for too long, or you’ll lose the plot.” I looked up from the knitting I was fixing, to the knitter who’d brought it in, to see an expression of total bafflement on her face. You mean like … The long and the short of it
We all know how it is with knitting books – you don’t always love all of the patterns enough to make it worth getting the whole book. There’s no shortage of hype and expectation. It’s getting all that to collide with what we want to make that’s the challenge. Which is why the bumper crop … And then 6 come at once..