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    • 3 way neck warmer
    • A smidge of mohair
    • Asymmetric wrap
    • Bunny cowl
    • Flecks of colour
    • Garden stripes
    • lace cowl
    • Learn to knit mitts
    • Mohair wrap
    • Motorbike muffler
    • Mottled mohair scarf
    • Quick and Easy Shawly scarfy thing
    • Reversible cable scarf
    • Strawberry ripples
    • Summer lace stole
    • Tapered scarf
    • Textured cowl
    • Two colour cowl
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Category Archives: techniques

Black & white

December 15, 2012

I’ve finished 2 shawls for myself recently. The first one is a black woven shawl. I doubled the warp but …

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A learning experience

August 18, 2012

Well the plan for a silk wrap didn’t quite go to plan.  Pure silk warps are slippery and I found …

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Stripey squares wrap

June 3, 2012

I purchased a copy of Handwoven recently to have a look at.  Not much in there for rigid heddle, there …

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Playing with Noro

April 16, 2012

A few weeks ago I found this scarf post and really loved the result that she got from weaving the …

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Colour magic

March 11, 2012

A few years ago I bought a bag of Rowan Tapestry.  My plan was to make a Clapotis, the clapotis …

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Now for some texture

February 5, 2012

I’ve got plain weaving now so time to start playing with texture.  Using the Ashford knitters loom or other fixed …

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I got my spindle working – sorta

July 17, 2011

Not too bad for a first effort

Want to improve the consistency of your tension?

November 4, 2010

Knit an argyle scarf.  The slightest difference puts the pattern off.  I have unravelled the last 10 rows for the …

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Progress

October 11, 2010

Argyle scarf in progress Originally uploaded by wen1965 I love the way this is coming out.

It’s working!

October 4, 2010

2010-10-04 12.34.52 Originally uploaded by wen1965 Now that I’ve knitted a number of rows it is obvious my maths was …

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One of my books:

Victorian Lace TodayVictorian Lace Today by Jane Sowerby
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An interesting look at lace knitting in 19th century London with patterns updated and translated into modern US lingo.

A lovely collection of shawls and scarves beautifully photographed.

I will be knitting more from this book.

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