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Rikke Hat
Variegated yarns can be tricky. Haven’t we all had our phases of stocking our stashes with skeins of multicoloured wonders? Haven’t we all, at some point, wondered just what we can make from those...
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Cria Cardigan
I’ve got a newly finished cardigan and I love it. It’s the Cria Cardigan by Ysolda Teague, a designer I’ve loved for a few years now. This is my second major piece designed by her and I think it’s...
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Selbu Modern Beret
For the longest time I’ve wanted to make a fair isle beret, more specifically the Selbu Modern beret by Kate Gagnon Osbourn. A pretty little fingering weight beret with intricate detailing. Finally, I...
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Cassia Tunic
I love an impulse knit. No planning. No days/weeks/months of deliberation. This newly finished top for Alice is one of those. A pattern that had been in my queue for ages, it leapt off the screen at...
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Blackrose Socks
A few years ago RoseRed gave me a skein, a much loved, stroked and admired skein, of Sundara Sock yarn in a rich dark green-black. I loved it for a long time as it was my first ever skein of this lush,...
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Twirling at the Opera
What little girl doesn’t love a skirt with a whole lot of fabric in it for twirling? I think you’d have to look far and wide to find one. I made a twirly skirt for Alice recently and she wore it on...
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Gloves for Italy
Several weeks ago a friend told me she was, through some very good fortune, going on the trip of a lifetime. In the 1950s she migrated here from Italy as a two year old and grew up as the daughter of a...
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Julekuler
A rash, impulsive purchase a few weeks ago at the Suzy Hausfrau pop up shop lead to some fun and equally impulsive knitting. You may have seen this book around the traps. Two Norwegian blokes who run a...
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Summer Days
Christmas and New Year has been quiet here. Not hosting Christmas means there isn’t really a lot to do in terms of baking or menu planning. That was all in the hands of my in-laws this year. Christmas...
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Turn A Square Gets Lost in Helsinki
Late last year when I knew a friend was going to spend Christmas and New Year in Helsinki, I knitted a hat for him. I knitted Jared Flood’s Turn a Square hat. I’d long wanted to make it and though I...
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