After reading Kate Davies Yokes (2015), I was compelled to cast on for a yoked cardigan, both to reinvigorate my knitting passion which was wallowing in the doldrums and to extend my savouring of the book itself. Yokes is a book to be relished, especially for its scholarly contribution to our knowledge of knitting as […]
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Our Dear Boy had grown out of all his woollies. It was time to make something bigger. We talked together about the elements it must include like a hood and a zip. We talked about the elements it might include like particular colours and patterns. Armed with this knowledge, I cast the bones, made the […]
Freshly finished…a cardigan for an eight year old friend of ours. It is my own design that I have named Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. Ravelled here. Knitting for children as they get older is a tricky thing. Some don’t like things around their neck. Some don’t like the heaviness of […]
