What is it about summertime that I’ve become interested again in spinning yarn? I first gave it a whirl last summer and I’ve played with it randomly through the year but last week I truly got the urge to make use of a big bunch of fibre my mum had given me. Continue reading
I thought I’d be making socks for the relatives I’m seeing in a few months but… I’ve become fascinated by shawls.
I wanted a variegated or striped yarn in red colours but I couldn’t find anything locally so I fell back on the trusty Morris and Sons Empire yarn (100% Australian superfine merino). I chose the 2ply because I hadn’t tried it before but I wasn’t sure if it would work because it’s incredibly thin with 700m in a 50 gram ball. Continue reading
The stone fruits are in the shops signifying summer here in Sydney (let’s not mention the constant thunderstorms) but I’m obsessed with cardigans.
After lovingly staring at Joji Locatelli’s See You There cardigan for many weeks I took the plunge and bought the pattern. Continue reading
I’ve been getting stuck in to video podcasts from knitters to keep me company while I knit. I’m enjoying the chatty ones as long as they contain a good dose of inspiration about what the hosts are knitting, yarns they’re loving, and the ways they’re working, so a few shout outs for their awesome work go to:
From Australia:
And from across the seas:
The one down side is I need to cast on a simpler project because I’ve had a few “Oops” moments on my next cardigan, getting carried away with watching podcasts rather than paying attention to my knitting, but learning to fix mistakes is time well spent :)
These are the first of what will be a few sock experiments that I need to complete over the next few months. I’m going to pick patterns and try to follow them as closely as possible to become familiar with different sock knitting techniques.
The Simple Skyp Socks are a free pattern by Adrienne Ku that I chose because of the pretty texture. I found it to be a relatively simple knit after I worked out the flow of the pattern (it’s setup to be printed as a booklet but I read from it as a PDF). Continue reading