Wednesday 2 February 2011

Getting my knit on...

Despite the ever impending university deadlines, it's not all work work work round here.  I'm having a bit of a knitfest at the moment (my knitting comes in waves of productivity) so I thought I'd show you what's currently on the needles!

As an after Christmas treat, I bought myself a copy of Vintage Knitwear for Modern Knitters.  I'd been tempted with it for a while, but I buy so many pattern books that I kept putting it off.  Finally I gave in and settled into my first project.  It's a lovely little cardigan from the 30s.


Isn't it darling?  Given that most of my knitting happens on the bus between offices, I think it's progressing quite well.  The wool I'm using is more navy than in the photo (silly camera phone!), and I'm  contemplating using a lovely 'Gryffindor Gold' that the ladies in my office gave me as a birthday present for the accents instead of white... any thoughts?

After seeing this beautiful suit, I'm really inspired to go back to another work-in-progress that fell by the wayside.  This is from a lovely little 1940s pattern book that I stumbled upon in a charity shop near my work:

It's lovely but the pattern is very monotonous and I have the world's shortest attention span... I'm about 6 inches in having started it in August.  Oops!

So there's my projects... is anyone else knitting up a storm these days?

Love Jen xxxx

8 comments:

  1. That sweater looks great so far :)
    I am currently knitting a skirt. It was going quite slowly but I have started knitting every night while watching tv and it is almost done!

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  2. Thank you ^_^
    Knitting while watching TV is definitely the way to get loads done, I can't wait to get these essays out the way so I don't feel bad for sitting down and doing that!

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  3. I love that cardi, it'll look soo good when it's finshed!

    I've been knitting the same harry potter inspired scarf for at least 4 years...it's never ending!

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  4. Ooh, Harry Potter knitting, awesome! Scarves always take me ages, but then the last one I knitted was about 7ft long... got a bit carried away!

    Have you got the Harry Potter knitting book? It was part of the package I got with the gold wool from work, some seriously ace patterns in there :)

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  5. Wow, your blog is really cool, My son wants to knit but I don't know how to teach him, your sweater looks great! It's going to be really pretty.

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  6. Wow, you have one cool son! The 'Stitch n Bitch' book taught me almost everything I know, but there's some good youtube videos about how to knit as well :)
    I work in a youth club and just before Christmas two 16 year old boys sat down with me and learnt to knit, it was just about the cutest thing ever!

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  7. Harry Potter knitting boook!!!??! I have not heard of such a thing, I'm going to look it up, although judging by my past knitting prowess it would probably take the rest of my life to work through it!

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  8. I think it's called Charmed Knits? Not made anything from it yet (so many patterns, so little time!) but it is lovely :)

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