Tag: felted tweed

  • Nut-Hap

    Nut-Hap

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    It is Jen’s day! Hip Hap Hooray! When we began working on this project last year, Jen (Jen Arnall-Culliford) and I spent a considerable time musing on the brief that we sent out to designers. Haps were originally functional, working garments, and so we decided that the designers’ basic remit would be to create an…

  • Hat season

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    Clearly it is hat season in this house, as I appear to be unable to stop churning out Epistropheids. Tom requested one, and chose the yarn – Rowan Felted Tweed in Phantom and Clay. Both these shades feature pleasing sky-blue tweedy flecks, and speak to each other rather nicely. Tom wanted a predominantly brown hat…

  • bonus

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    More wardrobe refashioning: a few years ago, I knitted Tom a tank top (or vest, or whatever you like to call ’em) which turned out to be too big for him: a (gulp) Kaffe Fassett pattern called “dotty” from the Rowan Magazine. It’s a nice, autumnal pattern, in felted tweed with the dots worked in…

  • I love felted tweed

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    I really do. For about a month or so I have been knitting myself a tweedy dress. Because some knitted dresses seem to sag rather sadly, I am working it at a reasonably tight gauge and it has been taking a considerable time. But I am enjoying the slow process of the knitting because felted…