Yippee!! The Heather Slope Rib Sweater is finished!! Astonishingly, given my history with this wool, I really like the finished product. I think that is a strong indication of just how good this pattern is. I've found over the years that it is very hard to come up with a version which falls short of…
Off the slopes
Don't worry, I haven't been skiing, it's just that I've completed all of the sloping ribs on the Slope Rib Sweater and am now onto the finishing straight. I've paused at the point where I will begin the neck shaping, but I intend to get that done today and perhaps have the whole sweater completed…
Mad March hares along
I'm not a fan of knit-alongs, but if I was I would be one hundred percent keen on taking part in something called the MadMarchHares-Along. Just a random thought. If you run knit-alongs yourself, please feel free to use that next year. However, my title actually refers to the fact that the Slope Rib Sweater…
Make it easy on yourself
During the past week I've made a couple of changes to how I was working the Slope Rib Sweater, with an eye to making the process more enjoyable. You can see both of them in the above photo - wooden needles and a bit of scrap wool. I like to live at the cutting edge…
Under-inspiring
I'm going to apologise in advance because I think this might be a slightly underwhelming blog post. That said, I don't expect you generally visit with high hopes for earth-shattering marvels... there are limits to just how exciting knitting and ink are ever going to be, after all. I have succeeded in completing the second…
Let’s pretend
Let's pretend it's Wednesday, even though we're well into Thursday as I'm writing this. I don't know what happened to Wednesday; I know I got up, I know I went to bed, I know I knitted a little and read a fair bit, but I didn't do anything I had ear-marked to get done. Most…
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