Yeah, ok. It’s a cheap joke – “stranded” as I’m “stranded in a sea of fair isle stitches”. It could be worse. I could have said something about being stranded and clutching at anything that “floats”. Lucky I can knit hey? So I’m having a real fair isle binge at the moment…
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Fair Isle Yarn Dominance
When using the Fair Isle or stranded technique, it’s important to maintain consistency with yarn dominance. It all comes down to how you hold your yarn. It’s important to remember that the dominant colour will always be the yarn that is held in the lower position. I knit English style and when…
Holgate Beanie
Whenever I write a hat pattern I always knit it at least twice. I don’t want to be publishing patterns with errors in them if I can possibly help it. I always welcome feedback but would prefer people didn’t have to go to the trouble of letting me know that my products…
Knitting related injuries
Although a whole week off work to knit and bake and generally stuff around sounds very relaxing, it really is a hazardous way to spend time. Over the past four days I have been finishing some UFOs and working on a new fair isle hat design for the fella. Here is the…