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I bought this intense royal purple Louet Riverstone wool (colourway “Phantom”) from Di Gilpin at last year’s Knitting and Stitching Show, intending to make it into a scarf for my mother. After much deliberation I chose a pattern – Knitty’s Elbac, version 1 – and set to work.
Have you tried Elbac? It’s breathtakingly clever, and [...]

[Years ago, I started a different craft blog. I made a grand total of four posts. This is one of them.]

There’s a story behind this hat. A long story.
In 2006, I bought some beautiful alpaca in an orange/yellow colourway at the Knitting and Stitching Show in the RDS. I wanted to make a scarf for [...]