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April 16, 2007
Paging Kay Graves
Your download emails are not coming through because they are being 'blocked for spam'. I have no other way of contacting you to send you the file you need.
Posted by Anna at 03:07 PM | Comments (4)
April 06, 2007
Blustery pattern
To fit size: (32, 34, 36, 38, 40) (42, 44, 46, 48, 50) inches
Finished size: (33, 35, 37, 39, 41) (43, 45, 47, 49, 51) inches
A neat and tidy button-through vest. Has a small single pocket, and optional tubular cast- ons and offs to all ribbed edges. Easy to wear, easy to make - what could be nicer?
Knit in a DK weight wool blend. Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK is a wool/microfibre/cashmere blend with a stated tension of 22 sts x 30 rows to 4". 50gm (110m [119 yards]) (5, 6, 6, 7, 7) (8, 8, 9, 10, 11) balls
Gauge: After blocking, 22 sts and 30 rows in St st, to 10 cm (4 inches) using 4 mm needles.
Skills: Knit and purl stitches, ribbing, tubular cast on, tubular (sewn) cast off, buttonholes, increases, decreases, picking up stitches
NB: Read more about the tubular cast on method here.
And more about the tubular (sewn) cast off method here.
More about buttonholes here.
£3.00 - you will be sent a link to download the pattern as an electronic (pdf) file, approx 0.35Mb
Posted by Anna at 04:40 PM | Comments (18)
April 04, 2007
Keeping patterns up to date
Whenever I publish errata here, I also update the .pdf available for download. At the same time, I generally email everyone who has previously purchased the pattern with the new version, so that their copies are up to date.
However, inevitably, I get a number of error messages and bouncebacks, and so not everybody gets their new copy. If you have a version of a pattern which does not have its errors corrected, and you would like one, contact me with details of your original purchase and I will send you the latest.
Posted by Anna at 02:11 PM | Comments (4)
April 01, 2007
We are still knitting
And yet, and yet, and yet. We have so little to show.
Baby socks for my yoga teacher. Swatch for a ginormous cabled cardigan, now knitted and only awaiting blocking and buttons. Swatch in blue heather Cascade 220 for a fitted, asymmetric, princess-seamed equestrian jacket - knitted but awaiting seaming. Swatch in glorious Fable Alpaca, with a zig-zag slipstitch pattern, design fully conceived and awaiting download from my brain and into written instructions. Swatch in Debbie Bliss Pure Silk – a leaf pattern in stranded colourwork, but not reading as clearly as I would like. Maybe green out of white would be easier to see than white out of green, or maybe it's more trouble that it is worth and would be better in a nice houndstooth or herringbone instead.
You see, as previously intimated, I have this weekend signed and returned in triplicate a contract committing to producing one entire book by February next. Which feels terrifying and ridiculous at the same time. The thing won't be in print until Spring 09, so I take some comfort in knowing that no actual knitter will ever read said book – by then we will all have knitted through our stashes and be finding creative outlet through macrame, or Fimo.
In consequence, Fashionable Life bulletins are likely to be somewhat thin on the ground for the next six months, although I hope to keep you sweet with the occasional project which I can share, and self-publish too. Dear reader, I know you are forgiving. If you demanded daily, even weekly updates, you would long ago have cancelled your subscription to these irregular pages.
And now, as any good procrastinator should, I'm going to avoid knitting by sowing seeds for this year's vegetable garden. It is a glorious spring day. The irony is not lost on me that, in previous years, I have procrastinated on sowing seeds by knitting instead.
Posted by Anna at 01:12 PM | Comments (86)