On Wednesday I went to the I Knit shop and ordered some of the beautiful Wensleydale Longwool. I Knit is fab for British wools. I think it's my favorite of the London wool shops.
Brendon Mably from the Kaffe Fassett studio was in I Knit promoting his new book. Although I'm not really a fan of the 'Kaffe Fasset look', I admire the design and craft it takes to construct the pieces. During his talk I was interested that Brendon said he never uses variagated wool as you have no control over colour combinations. He recommended that we find balls of the different colours and combine them in ways that exactly suit our purpose. I agree with this to a large extent. When I went on holiday to Norway last year I saw a women knitting on the train. She was making a beautiful garment from many balls of green wool in slightly different shades. Needless to say, when I got back to the UK I went to the wool shops looking for these kinds of combinations and again, needless to say, you can't buy those kinds of colours. Maybe the lady had dyed the wool herself or Norway simply has better knitting shops.
I have completed my cabled cardigan and it looks very nice. The photos of it don't really do it justice. I think ot's the first thing I've made where everybody sayd 'did you really knit that- can I have one?'. Of course the answers are 'Yes and No!'.
I have completed my cabled cardigan and it looks very nice. The photos of it don't really do it justice. I think ot's the first thing I've made where everybody sayd 'did you really knit that- can I have one?'. Of course the answers are 'Yes and No!'.
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