Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

Hello
I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Thursday, 5 January 2012

The jumper I am making is from a wonderful designer called Kate Davies. She sells her designs on her blog
http://textisles.com/
or on www.ravelry.com
It is called 'Owls' and is made 'in the round' basically knitted in a tube so seamless using circular needles. Its going ok so far although I did shed a tear or two when my needle snapped as I was knitting and I had to pick up al the stitches or loose them.



This is how far along I am. I now need to make the sleeves, also 'in the round' but I am waiting on the new needles arriving so watch this space.....

In the mean time I have been practising my cabling technique by making fingerless clothes. Cabling is where you literally twist the stistches to form a cable pattern
 These are for my eldest son Jacob to take on a school trip to Wales for a week in January

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