Holly graduation socks - made from all the left-overs from other socks
Finished Gansey - my version of a pattern from Staithes in North Yorkshire
Christmas Socks (and gloves)
The start of my Gansey - May 2013
Holly’s birthday bobby, November 2013
30cm wide, 30cm tall, 2cm moss, 5cm rib, 7cm rib
Owen’s Christmas bobby, 2013
Bobble Hat pattern
Rowen Tweed using 3mm flexible kneedle
cast on 120 stitches using channel island cast on
moss stitch for 8 rows or 2 cm
Knit 2 Pl 2 for 20 rows or 5 cm
Purl one row
Knit 2 Purl 2 for 28 rows - or 7 cm
Change colour - Stocking Stitch for 10 rows
Change colour - Stocking Stitch for 10 rows
Change colour - Stocking Stitch for 10 rows
Change colour - decrease every 10th stitch
Purl a row
Knit - decrease every 10th stitch
Purl a row
Knit - decrease every 9th stitch
Purl a row
Knit - decrease every 9th stitch
Purl a row
Knit - decrease every 8th stitch
Purl a row
Change colour - continue like this until decreasing every 4th stitch - dispense with purl row
Sew up, make pom using strong thread and sew on with same
I hand knitted this jumper in the early 1990’s, when Holly was a baby. It took ages, with all the weaving in. I taught myself to knit with a thread running over the forefinger of both left and right hands.Towards the end of knitting this I had a bike accident on the way to school, breaking a hip - and was off school and non weight bearing for the following few weeks - so I sat on a sofa, playing my guitar and knitting - giving my self RSI, after which I gave up knitting for many years.
Holly's Staithes Gansey, completed December 2018
Annette's Staithes Gansey, completed December 2019