Caution, the following post may contain actual knitting content
I know it's been a while, but I do have some actual knitting to report upon.
Bloom, from Rowan 36, was one of the very first things I knitted for myself. Up until that point everything had been tiny, for babies or children and this was my first attempt at an adult sized garment. Save, that is, from a brief foray into the world of knitting back in my student days when I ambitiously decided to knit a very complicated cabled sweater in spite of the fact that my knitting experience was limited to small garter stitch doll sweater made under my Grandmother's careful tutelage at age 8. Optimistically I made good use of my student grant money and bought a giant sized ball of something (whispers) acrylic and cast on with the help of a charity shop book, circa 1973. With a blissful disregard for words like gauge I bravely knitted on and finished the sweater, indeed I wore it and compared to some of the other items in my wardrobe at that time it actually wasn't so very bad.I digress. So Bloom was my first knit for me and it has been one of my most successful knits ever. By successful I mean, I actually wear it a lot, it is in regular rotation in my wardrobe and I love it. Considering it is about 6 years old now it has worn surprisingly well, Felted Tweed how I love thee.
So I decided to make another, this project has the added advantage of being reasonable inexpensive to knit and there is enough short row shaping to make up for the tedium of all the stocking stitch. The front is completed and I am romping across the back, at this rate I may even have some actual finished garment pictures to show you next week!
Hopefully of a rather better quality than this picture of my existing Bloom which I hurriedly snapped in a poorly lit bathroom mirror this afternoon while many children ran wild through the house.
Now I do hope none of you passed out with the shock of seeing actual knitting on this so-called knitting blog, I suggest you all go and have a nerve steadying glass of wine, after all it is Friday night and everyone knows that Friday night is wine night.
I know it's been a while, but I do have some actual knitting to report upon.
Bloom, from Rowan 36, was one of the very first things I knitted for myself. Up until that point everything had been tiny, for babies or children and this was my first attempt at an adult sized garment. Save, that is, from a brief foray into the world of knitting back in my student days when I ambitiously decided to knit a very complicated cabled sweater in spite of the fact that my knitting experience was limited to small garter stitch doll sweater made under my Grandmother's careful tutelage at age 8. Optimistically I made good use of my student grant money and bought a giant sized ball of something (whispers) acrylic and cast on with the help of a charity shop book, circa 1973. With a blissful disregard for words like gauge I bravely knitted on and finished the sweater, indeed I wore it and compared to some of the other items in my wardrobe at that time it actually wasn't so very bad.I digress. So Bloom was my first knit for me and it has been one of my most successful knits ever. By successful I mean, I actually wear it a lot, it is in regular rotation in my wardrobe and I love it. Considering it is about 6 years old now it has worn surprisingly well, Felted Tweed how I love thee.
So I decided to make another, this project has the added advantage of being reasonable inexpensive to knit and there is enough short row shaping to make up for the tedium of all the stocking stitch. The front is completed and I am romping across the back, at this rate I may even have some actual finished garment pictures to show you next week!
Hopefully of a rather better quality than this picture of my existing Bloom which I hurriedly snapped in a poorly lit bathroom mirror this afternoon while many children ran wild through the house.
Now I do hope none of you passed out with the shock of seeing actual knitting on this so-called knitting blog, I suggest you all go and have a nerve steadying glass of wine, after all it is Friday night and everyone knows that Friday night is wine night.
Comments
This is a knitting blog?
and yes. Friday night is wine night.
Thanks for letting us know that the Felted Tweed hold up well - I'm always interested in knowing how things last.
Just found this site and thought it might be useful to chat to people who are trying to accomplish the same as me!
I spend too much of my life on the internet and look forward to chatting to you all and picking up and sharing ideas along the way!
Eva
don't quit and keep creating mainly because it just that is worth to look through it,
excited to find out additional of your stories, kind regards!
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I do love that sweater. And you look lovely in it. I'm still looking for the 'perfect' pattern!
Bloom is lovely, I am not surprised you are revisiting it.
and i have used felted tweed once... for my tangled yoke... the wear is EXCEPTIONAL! no pilling. i am in love with that yarn.
it would be SO great if we could enjoy a friday night wine together. or a sunday one for that matter. :)
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