This week I share my knitting woes as I try to knit a cardigan for my younger brother. Plus there’s a round-up of what else I’ve been knitting and a review of some patterns that have caug...
Thank you for all the oh-so-helpful comments on the last post. As ever, there is much knitting wisdom to be found from kindly folk online. Last night I got home and spent an hour or so on the sofa, s...
So, you know all the fun I had knitting the boyfriend’s Charmed Sweater? Well, it seems I’ve decided to set myself another Herculean knitting task. My little brother will turn 30 at the b...
This week is all about the looming London Olympic Games. There’s also an update on what I’m knitting, a few tips about knitting on airplanes, a sheepy event coming up in London and some i...
I’m out of the country over the weekend, so I’m going to have to bow out early, but thanks to everyone who’s read, commented and joined in the blog week, and I’ve loved readin...
Not part of Knitting & Crochet Blog Week, but this has broken me: I’ve previously blogged about my love for the adult version of this jumper pattern by Carrie Bostick Hoge and we all know m...
I live in the UK, where seasons are a vague notion, rather than clearly defined stages of the year. They tend to be interchangeable and unpredictable; the temperature can jump 15C in the space of a f...
I have to admit I find today’s topic a little daunting. Not because it’s difficult to think of a knitting hero – on the contrary, I have so many! – but because I am wary of fr...
I didn’t have chance to plan an exciting photograph for today’s challenge, so instead I had a hunt through the archives and found a picture that combines my love of knitting with my love ...
Knitting and Crochet Blog week is here! Welcome, if you’re new to the blog, and do check out the other participants using today’s tag 3KCBWDAY1 . So without further ado, let’s dive ...
Next week marks the start of the third annual Knitting & Crochet Blog Week, organised by Eskimimi Makes. It’s a brilliant idea, whereby yarn-loving bloggers everywhere write a post every da...
The podcast has escaped the clutches of the evil hackers and is back to celebrate its third anniversary! Join the Sheep on another adventure as he decides to track down the cyber criminals. Plus we t...
There are many, many knitting patterns that instantly have me drooling, but few that have me itching to cast on quite as much as this. Sibella, by Carrie Bostick Hoge and the serial enablers at Quin...
I’ve been doing a mental round up of Things That Need Knitting, and once I ran out of fingers I knew I was in trouble. The problem lovely thing is that several friends are having babies and get...
A quick note FYI: I’m busy writing and working on the next episode, which should be a bumper issue as we’ve lots to catch up on. Planning to record and upload it this weekend. I’m t...
Now that the website is up and running again, I’m catching up on a few things that I’ve been itching to blog about. Firstly, the promised pictures from Unravel at Farnham Maltings (pictur...
Yaaay, I’m back in! If you’ve wondered where the hell I’ve been for the last month, the silence was down to the fact that the website was hacked, causing all manner of technical may...
This week it’s all about the perils of startitis and accumulating Works In Progress. Plus there’s an update on Unravel and just how much yarn I’ve added to my stash; a review of som...
It’s quite sweet the way so many people still think of knitting as a relic from a bygone era. Whether reading newspaper articles or chatting to someone in the office, I’m often struck by ...
Ever since I saw the childrens Gathering Stripes jumper, by Veera Valimaki, I have been hankering after an adult version. Especially when I met this little lady modelling hers at Unravel. It turns ou...
Alright Quince & Co. just stop this now. I cant handle any more enabling; if its not the patterns, its the yarn, calling to me in a way that is, frankly, bordering on the unhealthy. I am totally ...
The podcast returns with a challenge to knitting mythology – is it possible to beat the Boyfriend Sweater Curse? Plus we catch up on what else I’ve been knitting; there are some blog reco...
It is DONE! Actually, it was done on Friday night, but I haven’t had chance to blog about it until now. Yes, the Charmed Sweater is finished and it fits. Really it does. I would show you a pict...
So, there are several mistakes in this sweater. And I’ve decided to take a friend’s advice and fix them another time, so that the sweater is never really finished, and therefore the curse...
Lace sweaters tends to make me a little nervous – I worry that they can appear too fussy and twee (at least on me at any rate). No such concerns with this pretty number from Through the Loops. ...
I’m getting there. Yesterday I joined the sleeves and body and knitted all. day. long. With the opening round running to about 288 stitches, progress was slow, but I built up a nice line of rag...
I am utterly smitten with this lovely new pattern from Amy Christoffers. Its long ribbed cuffs and relaxed fit look super cosy and I love the colour of the sample, which gives it a vintage feel.The p...
Like the dinner guest who was a witty conversationalist at the start of the evening and now, after one too many glasses of punch, is zombie-staggering across the living room trying to do the dance to...
Ive managed to record a new episode of the podcast however, owing to a tech issue overhanging from when my laptop had to be wiped, I cant share it with you just yet. But in the meantime, look at thi...
So, the renovated Bliss sweater is now finished, with longer sleeves: Luckily, my washing machine behaved itself this time, and after a run through the wool cycle, the new yarn bloomed and the join i...
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