Stories tagged: Pattern round-ups

Pattern round-ups

Unbuttoning the gloom

"The weather is always rubbish at this time of year. What do you expect? Of course it's grey and rainy. It's February. This is the...
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9 picks for 26

It's a rarely-spoken about hazard of being a knitter, that we have a far harder time packing for a weekend away than our non-knitting friends...
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Let’s get this autumn started

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...
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Knit Your Own Summer Returns!

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...
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Time for Tee(s)

It's uncomplicated and fits everyone - the summer's blank canvas that everything else goes with, and yes I know you can get them for a...
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Partly Cloudy

Blue skies in the shop window are one thing. Making them happen outside and up above - in April - in Clapton - is quite...
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Another round of toast?

We'd been getting requests for months, or possibly even years, before I finally caved and did a round-up - about this time last year I...
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Sweaters plain and simple

Don't say boring. Do say blank canvas. As the year stretches ahead of us with plenty of cold weather promise, the what-to-knit-next question seems more...
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Sleight of Sleeve

All is not as it seems in hand-knit-land today. No sooner do we congratulate a knitter on the beautiful sweater we can see poking out...
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Witch stitch?

Now I know that Halloween is not everyone's cup of tea - I come from the generation of curmudgeons that bemoans the rise of over-the-top...
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The infinite knit

perennial/pəˈrɛnɪəl/adjective1.lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring."that sweater has a perennial appeal" The year is on the turn...