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The most wonderful time of the year is upon us so get into the festive spirit with styles from our Christmas collection. We have a spectacular selection of tights, stockings and hold ups - perfect for glamorous party outfits, festive fancy dress costumes and Christmas morning stockings. >> http://www.gipsytights.com
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These Fairisle Fridas crooked smiles are making me smile
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This experiment with Frida and fairisle knitting is now being made into a crochet bag. I’m not completely happy with my ‘Fairisle Fridas’ but I’ll keep working on it
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I really need to find a new beanie model
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Go Beavers! A beanie I made for my nephew who plays street hockey
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If I had stairs I would totally #decorate them with this awesome #fairisle removable #wallpaper by @thelovelywallco
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Very excited to post the first look at my author illustrated book, ‘Margaret’s Unicorn’ published by the absolutely wonderful Schwartz and Wade Books! @randomhousekids
Read a little more here: http://bit.ly/2UDARiv
Publishing this year on the 15th September in the US!
‘Margaret’s Unicorn’ is a tale about a little girl who is sad to move home, but one day finds a baby unicorn, trapped and tangled in the weeds, left behind accidentally by his family for the winter. She takes him home to take care of him through the colder months, showing him how magical winter can be, and learning to love her new home herself.
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Im racing the dropping temperatures to finish this scarf but I like how it’s turning out!
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Every year should have a mammoth knitting undertaking that makes me wonder if I’ve bitten off more than was sensible.
This year it’s been knitting a fairisle cardi in flat pieces, in a non-wool yarn, and then learning to set in sleeves to get the thing assembled. All while the recipient was 180 miles away and thus quite unavailable for fittings.
But it didn’t turn out ‘alf bad, if I say so myself.
This is my lovely mum graciously wearing a Christmas cardigan in August so that I could photograph my handiwork. The pattern is Marie Wallin’s Ninian.
Last Christmas (urgh… last Christmas…) mum mentioned that she might like a Christmas cardi, so what could I do but try to oblige in time for the next festive season?
I picked Ninian because mum likes a V-neck and dislikes anything too thick and bulky, meaning 4ply was the way to go, yarn-wise. I wanted a pattern that wasn’t overtly Christmassy (no reindeer, no trees, no santas…), so that it could be wearable beyond December. Oh, and the much missed Liz had Wallins’ Shetland book and was willing to lend it, which kinda helped a bit, too.
I completely reimagined the colour scheme for the cardi to turn it from ‘subtle modern twist on traditional Shetland design’ to ‘Christmassy without being completely gaudy’. It took several goes to get the new colour scheme right, and some of the yarn colourways I bought weren’t used in the final iteration at all (charcoal and bright leaf green both bit the dust because they just wouldn’t play nicely with the others).
The overall effect was inspired by a Vogue Knitting pattern for a Christmas cardi, from which I particularly stole the addition of dark teal into the more expected Christmas palette of red and green.
The yarn is Hjertegarn Blend Tendens, which is a 50/50 cotton/acrylic 4ply blend. Mum doesn’t wear wool, so I had to branch out into non-animal fibres for this. I was pretty wary about how they’d work for stranded knitting, but it actually wasn’t a problem at all: it played very nicely in the pattern and wasn’t hard on the hands to knit with. I did modify a couple of rows of one of the motifs to remove a 13-stitch float, which I thought would be a bit too long in a non-sticky yarn.
I picked the Hjertegarn because it comes in a really wide variety of bright shades, and not just a handful of baby pastels. I’d not bought from Rito Hobby before, and was a little nervous about them seemingly being a Denmark-based firm (post-Breixt import charges are a mystery to me), but they have a UK-based office or something, so it’s just like buying from a UK company, except that the parcel originates from Denmark somewhere.
My swatch cheerfully survived machine washing, and the yarn played nicely with steam blocking, too. What’s not to love?
The project overall turned out incredibly bittersweet: I’d be throwing ideas for it around with Liz for a couple of months, and she lent me a stack of fairisle books, and then I’d barely started knitting in earnest when she died. I’d be very much looking forward to showing her the work in progress when we met on the village green for tea, and – frankly – to having her guide me through the making-up process. Still, I muddled through it all and the seams turned out surprisingly well, all things considered. I’d only ever mattress-stitched cuddly toy clothes before, and there’s rather more room for manoeuvre there.
The sizing worked out well, too. It’s helped by mum and I being pretty much the same height and arm length. But even so, I didn’t fancy starting all over again if it’d turned out to be way off!
Project stats
- Pattern:Ninian, by Marie Wallin, in the smallest size
- Yarn:Hjertegarn Blend Tendens
- Needles: 2.75mm for the ribbing, 3.25mm for the rest
- Mods: completely reworked the colour palette, small change to one motif to reduce float lengths, worked arms and body shorter than stated, skipping over the lightly-patterned sections immediately after the ribbing.
- Started: March 2021, finished August 2021:
My sweater knitting efforts have been interrupted by my childish water colour doodling efforts, then cleaning efforts and sorting through stuff efforts. But now I am back to knitting!
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Yesterday I have finished and blocked sock yarn crochet blanket which means another 650g of stash yarn have been used up, yay! And now I have cast on for a colour work sweater for my dad from the tweed yarn I have had in my stash for a couple of years now (it was given to me on the cone). I have already used 650g of it to make kids’ hoods I mentioned earlier, and I still have plenty left for a man’s size sweater. The pattern is Narvik by @dropsdesign and it is free! .
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Finished a big motif now for a middle sized one
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Floats are so cool.
Almost done with this rotund motif.
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My tension was a lil tight on the previous motif but it seems to have loosened up a bit.
It’ll block out I’m sure.
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