The easiest way to change yarn colours in exactly the right spot.
Read moreUpdates from Sleeve Island
I pulled all of my works in progress (WIPs) out and had a look at everything, and I seem to be stuck on Sleeve Island with my Ama Sweater. There’s nothing bothering me about it, I have just been busy with other knitting, but it reminded me that I haven’t shared this article that I wrote for Knitting Magazine last year. I hope it will make you smile…
Have you ever been there? Sleeve Island really is a magical place. Full of potential and beauty… and incredibly hard to leave.
Read more#SpringintoColourKAL pattern inspiration
Our #SpringintoColourKAL is in full swing over on Ravelry and Instagram, and I think we’re all finding lots of joy in some colourful knitting! If you've not joined us yet, or perhaps are looking for a second or third cast on, today we’re bringing you some patterns big and small that would make for great entries!
Read moreFO: Granito Sweater
I’m so thrilled with my finished Granito Sweater! Once again, a 4ply garment has taken me around a year from start to finish, in amongst a LOT of work knitting and smaller pieces. At this point in my life I’m pretty happy with that. It would be easy to feel like I wasn’t making progress and that it would never be finished, but in reality – when I was working on it – it flew along.
Read moreOn the Subject of Emergency Knitting...
Isn’t it funny how things sometimes happen in an order such that it feels like it was somehow pre-destined? Last week I blogged about how much I had missed having a simple sock project in my handbag, and how important it is for me to always have some knitting to hand.
Read moreApril showers bring ... finished lace!
Well that was fun! Our April Boost Your Knitting KAL has officially come to an end, but what a month it was! Joji Locatelli’s sterling Sterlyn Shawl had knitters all fired up about fixing mistakes in lace – the finished results, I think you’ll agree, are stunning! So many shawls, with plenty of cameo appearances of spring flowers!
Read moreBoost Your Knitting April Knitalong: The Halfway Point
It’s a bit hard to believe, but April is halfway over, and our monthly Boost Your Knitting KAL is well underway in our Ravelry group, with new lace projects springing up everyday and a few coming out of winter hibernation! It’s been amazing to see not just what everyone’s creating, but also the gusto with which many have embraced the fixing mistakes brief — with knitters fearlessly unraveling problem lace sections and even bravely dropping down mistake-free bits of knitting to practice the technique!
Read moreA chat with Joji Locatelli
Monday brought the release of this month’s Boost Your Knitting pattern, the stellar Sterlyn Shawl, designed by the incomparable Joji Locatelli. This gorgeous shawl, knit in, well, scrumptious Scrumptious 4-ply, is the perfect canvas on which to practice April’s featured technique, fixing mistakes in your lace. I caught up with Joji the other day and really enjoyed hearing more about her thoughtful approach to the Boost Your Knitting brief. Read on for Joji’s tips on avoiding mistakes in lace, what she does when she makes them, and the technique she’d most like to conquer this year!
Read moreOn a wet Thursday...
The weather here in Frome is miserable. It’s pouring with rain and grey as anything. I’m hoping against hope that it will clear up next week for the school holidays, or we will go stir-crazy playing endless board games and looking out the window.
I’ve not blogged about what I’ve been knitting for a while, so this is a quick run-down post.
Read moreFixing mistakes in lace and the Sterlyn Shawl
Here is April’s stunning design for Boost Your Knitting: The Sterlyn Shawl by Joji Locatelli! Joji’s beautiful shawl uses three skeins of Fyberspates Scrumptious 4ply. Joji used Charcoal, Water and Glisten for this design – all of which are available in our online shop.
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