Knitting time already?

It can’t be, surely? I haven’t finished knitting the socks from last month’s Simply Knitting, and Issue 44 has just dropped through my door!
Actually it didn’t so much drop through the door as fight with the postman to be wrestled through the letterbox, as the free gift this issue was a set of butterfly clips. [...]

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Silk socks and a passionflower.

I have a confession to make.
I am in love with my new socks. And they’re not even socks yet!
I honestly thought I’d be bored by the monotony of knitting every single row, but the self-striping yarn is absolutely fascinating to watch. How wide will my stripes be? Which colour’s coming next? I also thought I’d [...]

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Summer jumper

I’m in the process of knitting a variation on Colinette’s Madelene pattern. It’s in the Parisienne book, but I’m knitting it with Banyan instead. I succumbed to a bargain lot of Banyan on Ebay, and I quite fancied a loosely-knitted cotton jumper for the summer. The colourway is Neptune.
 
This is the back, and it feels [...]

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Get Knitted!

I would like to take a moment to sing the praises of Get Knitted. I ordered some yarn and needles from them on Friday, and they’ve arrived today. (Tuesday.) Their postage rates were extremely reasonable, and they threw in a free pen and a sweetie!
I ordered from Get knitted because they’re a UK supplier of [...]

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Knitting and photography.

I’ve just been updating my projects on Ravelry, and apparently I have completed 40 projects since I started knitting in 2005. Does that seem like a lot? And that doesn’t even include all the things I’ve unravelled, or the things I’m knitting right now!
Here are my two most recent knitting photographs:

The jacket on the [...]

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Bitten by the Sock Bug.

I’ve been knitting since 2005, and it seems as though I’ve spent the whole of that time avoiding knitting socks. I like big, chunky jumpers, made from big, chunky yarns. You can’t really knit a wearable sock on 10mm needles! They’re small, they’re fiddly, the Magic Loop technique is incomprehensible to me, and knitting with [...]

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The green cardigan’s almost finished!

I’ve been trying to knit a cardigan with this green Rowanspun Chunky for ages. It started out last year as the Nicky Epstein Cardigan with Cabled Points, but the pattern made me so cross that I unravelled the whole thing in a fit of pique. I’d made it all the way through the back, both [...]

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My First Socks!

After knitting six gloves over Christmas (two pairs and two half-pairs), I decided the time was right for me to make my first foray into socks.
I still hate loathe and detest wrangling with a handful of double-pointed needles, so I decided to find a pattern that I could knit using just two knitting needles, like [...]

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Moss-stitch trim zip-up cardigan.

The Dreaded Lurgy keeps striking me down in sudden and annoying ways, so I have mostly spent the weekend quietly knitting.
The first part of the weekend was spent unravelling, when I realised that I couldn’t bear to knit another stitch on the Cardigan with Cabled Points, and I was no longer certain that I actually [...]

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The Great Kool Aid experiment.

Recently I bought a sewing pattern from an American Ebay seller. As a little free gift, she included a mini packet of Kool Aid! Having looked at the ingredients and decided that I didn’t want to risk actually drinking it, I thought it might be fun to do a little experiment.
I must admit, I didn’t [...]

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