I’ve been busy with my needles this year. The trick I’ve learned is to only knit things you rather desperately want, and then you tend to finish them. Like this glam version of ‘resort casual’ from a replica of Vogue Knitting 1957:
I bought the PDF from the lovely people at Vintage Knitting Patterns, and I would quite like to knit up the whole volume eventually. The models looks so elegant, not a bit of dodgy swiss embroidery or badly designed fair isle in the whole book. I’m rather pleased with my interpretation. It’s a gamble knitting anything that is supposed to fit, especially using different wool, but I was rather surprised that my substitute yarn (Rowan’s Silk Wool DK) knitted up to the perfect tension, even though I knit using the Continental method (or as my charming younger sister puts it, I ‘knit weird’) and for some reason generally knit things 10% bigger than specified in UK or US patterns. It’s not perfect, but it fits, and it came out how I wanted it. Now all I need is a demiwave and a pair of perfect white linen shorts…
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