Oolong knits

I know I should be finishing one of the many work-in-progress projects I have, but inspired by my previous post I've decided to start a new sweater for my husband. Don't ask yourself why am I always knitting sweaters for him, against the advice of so many knitters who never knit large projects for other people, and considering that he has never been too enthusiastic about it. I'm not a wise person when it comes to my husband and knitting. So here I'm again... set on knitting him a sweater he truly loves. Here I must clarify that he does wear the sweater I've knitted him a lot, but I feel he doesn't love it enough. I know I don't, that sweater is far from perfect. So here I begin documenting the whole process of knitting a sweater. Something a lot of other knitters have attempted and that I, although not explicitly, had promised not to do on one of my first posts, the one where I stated my intentions on writing this blog (the one about not adding more usele...

This post is not meant to be a nostalgic self-absorbed ramble on my past history, it is instead meant to be of some help for beginners who are planning on knitting their first sweater. My fist sweater My first sweater, or, to be precise, my first attempt at knitting a sweater, was a, or, to be precise, is a, knitted-in-the-round top-down raglan-shoulders sweater with intarsia and fair-isle colour work. You can probably guess why I haven't finished it yet. Here is the history of this project. After some research, I decided that the knitted-in-the-round top-down raglan-shoulders sweater is one of the simplest constructions for a sweater and hence a good model to start with. I've found a very good tutorial by tin can knits on their Flax pattern and the good news is that it is all free! So far so good. Then I started knitting it and... I got bored. Too many knit stitches and I started dreaming of one of those beautiful fair-isle motifs to add to my sweater and I just cou...

Since I've started this blog, I've tried to keep a rhythm of one post per week. I think that, at least for me, this is the only way to make sure the blog does not die an early death. If I wasn't doing the extra effort of keeping up with this schedule, I'm sure post would become more and more sparse, until they'd vanish forever. One trick that I've used to keep up, considering my lack of discipline and the lack of routine in my life, is to schedule posts in advance. This is particularly true when I go on holidays, I always make sure to schedule posts for the time I'm away plus a couple of posts more, because I know that, when I return, it will take me time to settle and find the time to go back to blogging. I was sure I'd done that on my recent trip to visit my in-laws, but, to my big surprise, today, when I checked, I've found I had not. No post for this new year yet. Oh my! Me bad. To make things worse, I'm completely uninspired about what...