fourth edition

Meet Larry the Leicester.
I am knitting Larry out of British Sheep Breeds DK in Bluefaced Leicester cream and brown. The pattern is Janice Anderson’s free sheep pattern (pdf). I made a slight mess of picking up stitches around Larry’s face (the decreases stand out more than I’d like), but I hope it’ll even out once [...]

People’s reaction to my sock knitting has been very amusing.
One afternoon I was meeting up with a couple of friends and we were merrily knitting along when a woman came up and said very slowly: “Oh. You are. All. Knitting. Socks.” We weren’t, actually, but I appreciated the stunned tone to the woman’s voice.
And how [...]

This morning I packed my bag for work knowing that I’d be heading to knitting group after work. I zipped up my Frankie Says jumper on its KnitPro needles, threw in the pattern and was too lazy to fish out my sock needles. Now, my workplace is the sort of place where you can waltz [...]

I finished my Ravelympics project on Monday night, but had to wait until Wednesday morning to photograph the result. I’m rather happy with my first pair of socks: they are pretty, the pattern was fun to knit and the finished object has already been used as bed socks (it gets cold in old Victorian tenements). [...]

As someone I know would say: “That’s a whole lotta sock you got going on there, girl”.
Truthfully I am not happy with my first/last socks. The pattern, Clandestine, is really fun to knit from a knitterly point of view: twisted stitches, increases, decreases and wrapped stitches. I look forward to every new row and have [...]

Funnily enough I finally feel like my knitting year is starting. I have been planning my Ravelympics project for a long time and I have been holding back on various projects because I knew that mid-February would be busy in knitting terms.
I have chosen to knit my first pair of socks and right up [...]

When I cast off a shawl last night – more on that later – I noticed that my left wrist was acting up. I have hyper-mobile joints and sometimes I forget that I have to “stiffen” my wrist when pushing against or carrying things. These past few days I have been doing a lot of [...]

I have somehow managed to sign myself up for a “10 Shawls for 2010″ challenge on Ravelry. By doing so I have completely ignored that I want to knit more small accessories in 2010 as I have cold fingers and a cold head most of the year round. However, the shawls challenge does fit nicely [...]

When I first wore my new shawl on a shopping trip to some local shops, I was approached twice. A drunk man outside the butcher’s informed me that I was “the most beautiful woman in the world” and shortly afterwards a toothless shouted an indecent proposal after me as I was walking home with shopping [...]

For many years I preferred crochet to knitting. As a child I crocheted blankets for my Barbie doll’s bed, later I ventured into bigger projects such as pillow covers before making my first (self-designed) jumper when I was about eighteen. I made it during a stint in bed and I used all the scraps of [...]