Olive Looks into the Forest WIP (Ingrid) For the last six weeks or so, my Mum and I have both been knitting Ann Weaver’s Tempest cardigan from knitty.com. Not so we could look ever-so-cutesy together: we are both too British and too old for that, plus hers looks like Dennis the Menace might wear it […]
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Knitting instruction manuals have been produced from the nineteenth century onwards, at which time the patterns were often known as recipes or reciepts. Both the learner and the more experienced knitter may have consulted these books to learn new skills and improve their technique as well as finding instructions for new stitch patterns and garments,
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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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