Knitting
I was taught to knit by my mum when I was about 5 years old using teeny wee needles. Then at about the age of 7 we had to knit a tea cosy at school, a truly hideous thing. The boys did raffia work...
View ArticleKnitting a hat.
I finished knitting the hat from the pattern which I downloaded from Ravelry site, however it didn’t turn out as I had expected it to. The pattern is called The Natural. Despite the fact that I...
View ArticleWinter Woolly
There isn’t much that I can do in the garden at this time of the year so I usually take up my knitting needles in the winter. I used to be really good at it but I’m a bit rusty now and I’m trying to...
View ArticleGUERNSEY Style jumper
Last winter I started to knit a jumper/jersey for Jack, but I didn’t get it finished before the spring arrived, for me knitting is a winter pastime. I managed to complete it last week and I’m quite...
View ArticleMore knitting – a shawl/stole
I’ve had some nice fluffy but not itchy Sirdar Kitten yarn languishing in my stash for a couple of years now, so I thought it was about time I browsed my knitting patterns and books to find something...
View ArticleChunky Knitting
Our weather is at the stage of swinging to and fro between autumn and winter, we’ve had early morning ice – so I’m told, I wasn’t up early enough to witness that! Anyway, this all means that it’s...
View ArticleWoolly hat
I had yarn left-over from my recent chunky jumper knit project so decided to knit a hat to keep my lugs warm. I’m quite pleased with it. I knitted it from a pattern in a book that I borrowed from the...
View ArticleKnitting – a sleeveless jumper/slipover
For me knitting is mainly a winter pastime, I suppose it takes the place of the gardening that I do in better weather. Last winter I knitted Jack a sort of ‘gansey’ jumper, I don’t think I ever blogged...
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