Sew2Speak

I first saw the pattern for this cardigan linked from Kristin’s blog. You can find the pattern at Knitty. Here is a photo of my finished cardy.

All three look completely different. Mine turned out slightly baggier than the original. The problem being that I couldn’t get yarn to match exactly the tension requirements of the pattern. [...]

Regular readers may recognise this wool. I have knitted it up 3 times now. It seems to becoming a habit with me to knit something and then not like it and unravel it all and start again. Even the number 3 seems to be recurring as it is not the first time that I have had [...]

After I finished the cushion at Christmas I needed something else to keep my hands occupied. So I unravelled this pullover and knitted it up again in a different pattern. This is nothing unusual for me. I don’t know why I always seem to choose the wrong designs the first time round. I liked the old [...]

The front was finished before we even got to England. I knitted most of the back in Brighton over Christmas. So when we got home I just had to sew the seams and knit the neck and armhole welts. All done now.

Here is a photo of the finished model:

And here is the model wearing it on [...]

Well I finally managed to persuade the photographer to take a photo of my knitting. This is the progress to date:

Things were going well until I came to the armholes. I have knitted the shaping for the armholes at least twice now. It was tricky getting the correct number of stitches and keeping the pattern going [...]