A FO, for those not in the know is a Finished Object, in this case of the knitted sort. I had been stealth-knitting a hat for Giles’ birthday, had triumphantly finished and successfully stashed it away, before realising that I couldn’t share it online at all in case he saw. Last weekend saw the hat […]
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It’s been a while, but happily, I’ve been getting back to spinning a little bit more lately. I’ve the start of a lovely double knitting weight yarn on the go that is intended to be knitted into a beret. It’s the yellow affair on the bottom left in the picture of the 1960s Copley’s
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A condition of my Dad’s impending retirement is that he must, of course have a sleeveless jumper to wear to celebrate this milestone… and to look properly retired, you know? I was given the instruction that it must be a sludgy colour, not too thick and with ‘none of that fancy nonsense’. This was later
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I like stitch holders a lot – they’re an incredibly useful piece of kit. I must admit that I especially like the ones that look like a really big safety pin. Those, probably because of the connotations of their name, seem to me to do the best job of keeping the live stitches from unravelling
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If you’re going to bang on about how important it is to always knit a tension square, don’t forget to put gauge instructions in your own patterns. On this note, I have just updated my George coffee cup cosy pattern to include said requirements, after an email from a knitter who couldn’t make the cosy
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