Would you like to win a kit to knit upyour own Hazelhurst? I’ll provide the pattern, and my friends at Renaissance Dyeing have kindly offered to give away two skeins of lovely worsted-spun organic Poll Dorset in shades ‘Ecru’ and ‘Carmine’ to one of my readers. All you have to do is leave a comment…
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green sleeve
I was never a particularly speedy knitter, and things have slowed down even further since my stroke. I ‘throw’ the yarn with my right hand and, though I enjoy working with my left hand when knitting Fairisle, I am curiously unable to adopt this ‘picking’ method with just one colour. I just can’t seem to…
Read MoreAllez! yarn success. . .design fail
Warning! Lengthy post, probably only of interest to knitters! One day in March, when I was still in residential rehab, I returned to my bed from a hard morning’s physio to find two packages. Both were promisingly squishy and clearly contained yarn. How exciting! I opened the first package. It came from one of my…
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KDD & Co 