My Tour project

As a follow on to yesterday’s post I wanted to show the wool I have bought for the cardigan I will be knitting. My elder daughter chose the colour so I didn’t need to worry if I had bought a suitable colour for her. The wool is kid mohair and silk.  For the pattern you…

So many late nights.

With the Cricket World Cup and the recent Giro D’Italia I have had many late nights.  Last night for example was three o’clock.  Fortunately I also manage to get quite a bit of knitting done while watching the television so I have something to show for the late nights other than tired eyes. This is…

This wasn’t one of my favourites

I have been knitting a cardigan for my younger daughter.  The wool is really lovely and soft but difficult to work with. If you put too much tension on the wool it would tear apart. I also made sure that I joined in a new ball at the end of a row as it was…

Experimenting with colourwork in knitting

I am slowly reducing my stash of wool but still have a long way to go.  The difficulty is knowing what to make with the odd balls of wool as generally there is not enough of one colour to make a complete garment. I have a Pinterest board for woolwork and one for yoke sweaters….

Knitting goes quickly when the cricket is on television.

This particular pattern is from a stack of patterns I have accumulated over the years.  I had finished my previous project and was looking for a new one when I found that this cardigan had been marked with a post-it-note.  I assumed that my elder daughter had marked it when she had been looking through…

I do get there in the end. . .

The granny square shrug is finished.  The colours look a bit washed out here but I am delighted with the finished product. It will look much nicer on my daughter than it does lying on the floor! I finished this little neck scarf that I started a while back.  It had been put to one…