Cardigans for Cosy Days: Temari and Trailing Ivy by Kyoko Nakayoshi

I don’t know what things are like in your corner of the world, but here in the UK, this week has marked a real turn in the weather. Walking to the office in the morning, there’s a chill in the air, the first crunchy leaves under foot … autumn is definitely on its way! Read on to learn more about our two new cardigan kits…

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Adjusting the Size of the Bonhomie Wrap

One of the things I love about my Bonhomie Wrap is its generous size … it really does feel like wrapping up in a great big woolly hug, something I know I’ll really appreciate as the weather turns cooler! But perhaps you have a perfect yarn for the pattern but not quite enough, or you just fancy something a bit smaller? If so, adjusting the size of the finished wrap is pretty straightforward!

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How do you keep track of your knitting?

I’m still happily knitting away on my Conviviality Cardigan, and it’s got me thinking about the art of pattern management. How do we keep track of our place in a pattern? And how do we manage when a pattern asks us to, gulp, do multiple thing at the same time?

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Reading Your Knitting: Right- and Left-Leaning Lace Diagonals

Learning new skills and techniques is always loads of fun — there’s nothing like mastering something new and realising a whole new world of knitting possibilities has just opened up to you. Harder to teach, but perhaps even more revolutionary, is to learn how to read your knitting and really understand what’s happening. In today’s tutorials, I show you how to keep track of your left- and right-leaning yarn over/decrease pairs.

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