Tag: knitting

An Advent Project: The Tavis Cowl

December 3, 2020

This is the time of year when, if like me you want to get into a vaguely festive mood by watching knitting related Vlogmas* videos on You Tube, you’ll also see a range of yarny mini-skein advent calendars being opened. Not everyone is doing it this year and interestingly a lot of knitters have DIY advent calendars made up and swapped with friends with particular projects in mind. Ready made calendars can be pricey and … More An Advent Project: The Tavis Cowl

The New Cowl Neckline: A Long-awaited Cast On but a Speedy Finished Object

August 21, 2020

It’s been a while since I shared any knitting finished objects or ‘FOs’, despite there having been quite a few, so I thought I’d jump back into it with a top that I’ve been knitting in my head for years, but only just got around to actually knitting. Does that happen to you? Sometimes, if I don’t get round to knitting something that’s in my mental queue for ages it just slips away and never … More The New Cowl Neckline: A Long-awaited Cast On but a Speedy Finished Object

New Year: Old Mittens & New Socks

February 10, 2020

Well I don’t know about you but I feel like I’ve been catapulted into this new year, or as everyone keeps emphasising, new decade, and rather than having any grand plans or dare I say it ‘resolutions’, I’m still trying to get my arms and legs in order and rub that bruise on my arse that resulted from the force of the propulsion combined with the weight of the landing. So in terms of the … More New Year: Old Mittens & New Socks

Yarniflections and a Sweater Parade

October 11, 2019

Today I’m taking a little time to look back over my garment knitting. There has been much talk recently about elitism in knitting industry and who that serves to exclude. I raised this in a previous post and started to link to the yarn used in the hats I’d knitted to demonstrate how beautiful designs can transform what may appear unpromising yarns, vintage yarns, odd balls, leftovers and reclaimed yarns. I was conscious that in … More Yarniflections and a Sweater Parade

The Twageos in the Room

March 8, 2019

In my last post I talked about hat knitting; about how the combination of portability, simplicity but with a bit of interest, worked to make hats the perfect travel companions. In the screenshot of 36 completed hats projects there was however a hat that, whilst it racked up a fair few miles on the clock during its knitting, had a little more to it and stretched the idea of simplicity with a bit of interest, compared … More The Twageos in the Room