I’ve been knitting lace.
(Knitted lace, for the uninitiated, is a system of decreases and increases which make a holey, lacey fabric. You can, in theory, knit lace patterns with any yarn, but this project was knitted in lace yarn which is thin and fine.)
It’s been a while since I’ve knitted lace. Largely, I think, because [...]
Els sent me this rather lovely advert.
And the film about how it was made.
Genius. Thank you, Els. (I only cried a little bit at the frogging part.)
Here’s my latest knitted item.
It got done very quickly, because it was what I mostly knitted when I wasn’t well a couple of weeks ago.
I love it, but I must confess, it was a very dull knit – it’s knitted in two pieces, which means that the back section that incorporates the sleeves was 56 [...]