AlwaysStitching
A record of my stitching and related activity - mostly smocking and embroidery - and what I am learning along the way.
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Friday, October 11, 2024
Swedish Weaving: Hand Towels
Monday, October 7, 2024
Leftover Uradale wool shawl
For the last two weeks I have been knitting up the wool left over from the Uradale version of this year's Shetland Wool Week hat. As I posted last month, the hat used very little of the 5 balls of wool in the kit. Rather than knit more hats, I found a shawl pattern in Martha Waterman's Traditional Knitted Lace Shawl and adapted it.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Fair Isle Knotted Basket.
As I was finishing this today, it occurred to me that it is work my father and other seafaring relatives would have been skilled at. As a child my skipping ropes, much the same as provided in this kit, had beautifully knotted handles, my father’s handiwork. I also remember taking my Uncle Phil to the Maritime Museum at Port Adelaide where he lingered over a display cabinet of knotted ropes, explaining them in detail. Most Fair Isle farmers would also, of course, have been sailors.
Friday, September 20, 2024
2024 Shetland Wool Week Hat
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Cabled Beanies
When, in the middle of my push to finish the healing blanket, I came across a free Cleckheaton pattern for a cabled beanie in a 10 ply yarn, I quickly downloaded the pattern, promising myself the treat of a quick and easy knit when the blanket was finished. The recommended yarn, Cleckheaton Verve, is not easy to find in Adelaide, but I found a supplier, and chose the required 2 balls in a blue/green colourway.
I liked the orange very much, but they only had one ball. Of course, I bought that as well.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Healing Blanket
I finished it last Wednesday, delivering it on Thursday.