I found this lovely dotty fabric in The Cloth Shop about two months ago and knew exactly what I wanted to make from it. The pattern is from an old Burda magazine, #119 from 12/2012 I think. This is a very simple sort of top but works well for busy fabric. I’ve made it before…
I finished up my Welsh Country socks. Pattern: Welsh Country socks from Folk Socks by Nancy Bush. A great book full of practical and pretty socks, accompanied by fascinating reading about their origins. Yarn: Brown Sheep Wildfoote. I am going to stick my neck out and say that this washes even better than Opal sock…
…That has nothing to do with my post, we just got the ‘Rocksmith’ game and that’s what Alb is playing! It is a tonne of fun. Anyway, here are some outfits that I made a while ago but never got around to showing. The first one is what I was wearing today so I figured…
Between the last Masters I did and finally finding a job with decent hours (love my job, by the way!), the last few years have meant that I have had to scale back my knitting alot. Sewing has had something to do with it, but not as much as you’d think…usually I sew when I…
I present to you my first single welt pocket. It’s my second, actually, but you know where they say to slash the opening for the pocket but DON’T cut through the other pieces? That’s what I did. Which is why you do a practice one first. It’s actually pretty straight forward and I love the…