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Week 5 – Magical moments and making progress

This week I’m officially back on the Max Waistcoat – and it feels so good to be making progress again. I’ve started on the right front, which means I’m very nearly there! The excitement is building, and it’s been lovely to reconnect with this project after the gentle detour of

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Week 4 – A Finished Pattern and a Fresh Start

This week, something exciting happened: I finished writing up the sock pattern! If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that these socks weren’t exactly planned…they crept in while I was working on the Max Waistcoat. But I followed the pull of that small, soothing knit… and now it’s not just

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Week 2 – The Journey of a New Design

If week one was about getting started, week two was definitely about… slowing down a little. Sometimes a different project calls you in. After a busy week, I found myself drawn to the gentle rhythm of sock knitting – a small, soothing project to calm the mind and steady the

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Week 1 – The Max Waistcoat Design Journey

This week, I did something I haven’t done in a while – I started a brand new design. The idea had been percolating for a bit (OK, a long time). There’s a very long list of designs I need to finish, and an equally long list of ones I want

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Three Needle Cast off – my favourite technique

The next stage in our Professional Finishing series is all about the three needle cast off and it’s my favourite stage. It creates a beautifully smooth even seam and it’s so easy to do. If you fancied seeing what I am writing about I’ve done a short  three needle cast

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Picking up Stitches

In this Professional Finishing series of blog posts we have looked at sizing, that T word, and decreasing.  In the decreasing we mentioned the amazing difference of how one stitch makes picking up stitches nice and easy. In this blog post I shall chat about how picking up stitches can

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Professional Finishing – decreasing

Decreasing – something that seems so unimportant yet one small change makes all the difference. Hopefully you’ve read the previous three blog posts I’ve done in this Professional Finishing series. There is one on Sizing and then the another one on that T word that we all love so much,(

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