Late last year, in preparation for the winter, I made a pair of French Press Slippers (ravelled here). They knitted up in an afternoon and were felted and ready to wear in a few days. I wore them, and wore them, and wore them. Can you guess what happened next? Yep. I’m fairly heavy on […]
It’s warming up here in Hampshire and with these sunnier days it seemed the time to freshen up some of our hand knits. But how to go about it? As Koster and Murray rightly said in their Modern Knitting Illustrated, in 1945, ‘knitted garments which have taken a long time to make are often ruined
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Oh my. The tiredness has hit me like a train this evening. It’s been a busy day of knitting festival visiting, picnicking in the woods, catching up with old friends, planning lots of wedding things and doing a good bit of actual knitting. All great ways to spend a Sunday off, methinks. The Mothership and
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The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design by Shannon Okey, Cooperative Press: 2010. The Knitgrrl Guide is a very useful reference book to keep handy for all (newer) designers, as it is really the only one that specifically deals with the business end of knitwear design. If you’re looking for a book to help you
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It has been freezing cold these past few days and we’ve even had a dusting of snow. I have recently been part of a knitting swap and as if by fate, right on the first day of the really cold weather a parcel was delivered (by a postman wearing shorts, but we’ll say no
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