The Jubilee weekend might have been a few weeks ago now, your bunting might be flagging and the street party a distant memory, but fear not, for you can keep the good times going in the form of a beautiful new book by vintage knitwear designer, Susan Crawford. As part of its blog tour, today […]
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At the end of last year, Giles chose some yarn to be this winter’s new hat. Rowan Pure Wool Aran in grey was both soft and well, grey, enough for the hat he’d like. It was perfect for a Woolly Wormhead hat that I’d been wanting to knit ever since I first saw it in
I’m sewing up my Mum’s Tempest cardigan in time to have the button band knitted and buttons sewn on for Mothering Sunday at the weekend. Don’t tell her, chaps!
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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