Finished project – Driftwood Hoodie

(Hoody? Hoodie? Eh, *shrug*) My first finished jumper for five years! I’ve already told you the story of my love affair with this pattern. Nothing further to add, really, beyond the fact that I ended up finishing this jumper 13 months to the day after casting on, which if I were superstitious I would link…

Life outside of knitting (but still also actual knitting, obvs)

OK then. It has been one hell of a week in my world, thanks to a series of big national events beyond anything I could ever have imagined happening recently. This isn’t usually the place where I bang on about those kinds of things, but I am just too full of Thoughts and Feelings not…

WIP – Shinobi jumper

You know, I really don’t know why this one’s been languishing in my WIP pile for so long, because it’s so very beautiful. Clever, satisfying pattern paired with a gorgeous luxe yarn which is in my platonic ideal colour. It’s all knit in the round so there’s barely any finishing – it starts with a…

WIP – Doomsday Driftwood Hoodie

This is one of my current works-in-progress and, to date, an utter joy. There’s some background to this one. Not very long after I took up knitting (2005), I saw a small photo in a knitting mag, advertising a Rowan pattern book. It was of a man and woman having an improbably lovely time paddling…

Vivian – April-October 2009

To disguise the lack of FOs in 2010, have another post which recaptures an FO from 2009 (this one, as it goes, is coming up to its anniversary of completion, gosh). Here’s the photoshoot of me modelling Vivian, by Ysolda. An absolute joy to knit, despite (or perhaps because of!) the variety of ways I…

Dainty hoodie — July 2008 – January 2009

I love this jumper. I like the fact that it’s form-fitting and flattering. It weighs almost nothing, the yarn’s very soft, and the lace pattern makes it both a really warm heat-trapping layer under a coat and something good to pull on over a strappy top on a summer evening when the sun goes down…

Quick look at something new

I started this last weekend. It is the snappily titled ‘Hooded Sweater with Lace Pattern’ from Rebecca #32, although my version has a working title of Dainty Hoodie. I’m using that delicious RYC Cashcotton I got from Liberty a few weeks ago (the photo show the yarn a little bluer than reality), and if you…

In-the-pink back on track

Check it out! OK, it’s been two three months since my last post, but look! That, baby, is a knitted on body hem. Not just a cuff hem, ohhh no. Now, I started the body back in June. It’s 202 stitches around, and I really wasn’t feeling the love as I inched, painfully, through the…

Somewhat Cowl — August-October 2006

So I was wearing this the other night, possibly while a tiny bit tipsy, and was disconsolately staring at myself in the mirror thinking “but it’s not quite right“. Something about the cowlish neckline just wasn’t flattering for my figure. It was fine, mostly, but not the gorgeous, glamorous item I’d hoped for, and a…

Salina — July-September 2005

I LOVE Salina! This is easily my favourite garment to date, and not only was it relatively simple to knit (and satisfying to do a knitted-on collar) but it fits like a dream and is lightweight, warm and comfortable. It wins at everything. Apart from, the fact that the back and the sleeves and most…

Big Sack Sweater — March 2005

This is my first ever knitting project (excluding a handful of squares of varying sizes and actual squareness). It’s taken from Debbie Stoller’s Stitch’n’Bitch — the book which can wholly take credit for me learning to knit again. (I have vivid memories of knitting dodgy garter stitch rectangles in bright orange wool as a ten…