New England life and knitting pattern reviews
All things related to knitting including yarn purchases, needles, free patterns and pattern reviews as I knit, and how to information.
This new sweater pattern is from the Lopi 40 book which I bought along with some Lettlopi yarn recently. I want a light blue sweater with white accents and Farfuglar is the pattern I chose. It means “migrating birds”. The sweater shown in the book uses my same choice of colors (air blue and white) […]
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It’s a bit embarrassing to show this swatch of colorwork because I messed up big time. But I don’t plan to do this again. A while ago I watched a video about swatching colorwork knitting in the round using this method, so I thought I’d try it. When swatching for a sweater, I always make […]
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As a beginner knitter I was always searching for free patterns to try. I was afraid I wouldn’t understand a pattern if I bought it because those were for people who knew what they were doing! Fortunately some clever people do write up patterns and share them for free. Some of these people are designers […]
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At the beginning of 2021 I decided I would make this a sweater knitting year. Right now I have three sweaters on the needles, after having a few “fail” moments to narrow down the patterns. All three sweaters are pullovers and two have colorwork yokes. Sweater #1: The Hand-spun Yarn Sweater Because I really wanted […]
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The last thing you may expect a Florida gal to do is order wool from Iceland to knit a sweater! But that is just what I did a couple of weeks ago. I have now fallen in love with this wonderful Lopi wool. While living here in the jungle heat, I dream of being in […]
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New England's Narrow Road 