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 the Pluto DK Socks. One […]
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 a finished pair of socks, […]
Week 3: Socks, Slowing Down and a Little Crochet Too
So… this week didn’t exactly go to plan. In fact, I didn’t touch the Max Waistcoat at all until the very end of the week! I spent the days between Sunday and Friday finishing the second sock I cast on last week – and while I didn’t take a photo of the finished pair, I […]
The Journey of a New Design – Week Two
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 hands. There’s something wonderfully reassuring […]
A Week in Stitches – 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 to start. So when the […]
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 off close-up video as well […]
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 be enjoyable and how making […]
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,( sarcasm doesn’t read well does […]
The T word – again!
It’s been a while, I’ve been on holiday which has meant a pause in the Professional Finishing blogging, but I’m back and we shall start again with another blog on something tricky….how many will read this blog?? Ok, let’s get back to it…so we want to knit our own garment. The first thing I suggest […]