SWAP #4 The sleeveless blouse?
I want a very simple shell top/sleeveless blouse as part of my SWAP. I plan to make some painted silk to pull the other items together. I am using grey and navy and a couple of other striking colours – … Continued
Elizabeth Zimmermann’s New Zealand sweater
I have really fallen for the New Zealand sweater, which I wrote about here. I have now made up two of these delightfully simple but fantastically elegant tops. Not so my teeth, smeared in raspberry flesh. (One day I will … Continued
My first foray with sheep’s wool (and the importance of soaking your swatches)
Following a recommendation from Linde I have been reading Elizabeth Zimmerman (of which more in a later post), and unsurprisingly for the Queen of Knitting, she swears by wool. I really like what she writes about the origins of knitting: “Primitive … Continued
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