For me, the year doesn’t really begin until February 1st, just after the school year begins. From Christmas till then, the days are full of family, holiday trips and summer heat. This year we visited Tasmania and did some short walks at Cradle Mountain. We also had some lovely river camping in north central Victoria. […]
Tag: gloves and mittens
Our dear girl lost her mittens in York, so my last knitting job before we left UK was to make a new pair. These are made roughly from Petite Purls – Stars or Stripes Mittens by Odessa Reichel. I used 3mm needles all the way through cos that’s what I had. I also made the […]
The Lockhart fingerless gloves from Lelia Raabe at Brooklyn Tweed are done and in full use. The tech bits are ravelled here. I started these in Berwick-upon-Tweed and they saw me through our road trip and the first week of Somerset – what a delight they have been. The combination of twisted stitches and smocking […]
Here is a little peek at my solace of the moment…some twisted stitch fingerless mitts. What do you reckon? A little dwarvish perhaps? Aren’t the needles lovely too – stained bamboo…not particularly great to knit with but to hand and very pretty. The pattern is called Lockhart by Leila Raabe for Brooklyn Tweed. I chose […]
Tim’s warm mittens are finished and being useful – just in time for the snow. Yes, snow! In late Autumn! We had a small show of it up North for about 15 minutes but now we are down south in Somerset and snowed for at least an hour this morning – everything was covered in […]