The past few weeks I’ve blogged and uploaded several videos detailing some of the more interesting bits of my Autumn Colors Fair Isle cardigan by Betts Lampers. This is a complex and entertaining project that I began on the way to STITCHES West last year, which was the last big event Lost City Knits attended…
In the last video and blog post I demonstrated how I was knitting two sleeves at a time with steeks on one circular needle on my Autumn Colors Fair Isle cardigan. Now it’s time to cut the sleeve steeks and graft the seams of the sleeves. This video shows the prep, little as it is,…
When I choose a new knitting project I often ask myself if there’s anything new to learn. Now, I’ve been knitting a few years but by no means know it all. One of the reasons I chose Betts Lampers Autumn Colors Fair Isle cardigan was that I was curious about the construction at the shoulders.…
When I first saw the Peerie Leaves Jumper by Donna Smith on Instagram I knew it would be the first project of the 2020 Shetland Wool Week Annual that I would knit. When the Annual arrived in November I checked the specifications and realized I had a yarn in the stash that would work perfectly.…
This morning as I was knitting the first round on my current sweater (Autumn Fair Isle by Betts Lampers from the book Sweaters From Camp) I found an error that I’d made last night. In this short video I demonstrate how I fixed those stitches without ripping out the entire round.
When I began working the sleeves of my Wave Cardigan I decided to add a single sideseam stitch, which I always worked in the first color of the band. This helps disguise the typical jog that appears at color changes when working in the round, and disguises the waves that do not line up once…
Rarely do I knit straight from a pattern without making it a bit more personal with modifications. The first modification I made to my Wave Cardigan was to work the ribbing with two shades of blue (FC15 and FC14) instead of the three shades of brown specified in the pattern.After I finished knitting the bottom…
The Wave Cardigan is the primary reason I bought the Knit Real Shetland book. I’d pondered it for years and decided early last fall to just jump in the water. Once I made the decision I was quickly putting together a kit for myself. (There are a few kits on the LCK website too.) …
If you’re both a knitter and an Instagram follower you probably already know about Fair Isle Friday or #fif as it’s hashtagged. It’s quite fun to search a hashtag such as #fif and see all of the great colorwork that’s being knit across the globe. Knitters are besotted with colorwork and I’m no different. Yesterday…
Progress on my Scatness Tunic is deceptive. I have been knitting on the stockinette portion in the evenings, but when I measure it there is little change. An hour or two later I measure it again. No change. How can this be? Months ago my favorite measuring tape was dropped (admittedly by me) and the…