Rainbows and circles for Barbie (and more). This is the latest pattern in the Sum Wear collection. It is a pattern for knitting three dresses, and a shawl. More importantly, it includes a mini-tutorial about knitting circles. The two dresses with long skirts have different tops. One is in garter stitch, the other is stocking …
Category: Knitting
Four Corners
I think you would have to look at this for a very long time to work out what is unusual about the arrangement of squares. Scroll to the bottom of this post if you want to know now In July The Big Internet Math-Off 2019 took place. This was a semi-serious competition to find The …
It was 25 years ago today …
… when the original Woolly Thoughts was published … and a lot has happened since then. It is very confusing because everything we do is called Woolly Thoughts but it was originally just this garish pink book. In 1994 we somehow persuaded Souvenir Press to publish a knitting book that had no colour in it …
Square Puzzle
The challenge is to turn a square of fabric into a jacket without cutting off any pieces or adding anything on.
My Face Cloth
Because Pat was making things at small size I decided to have a go at making the head of my Lady with an Ermine using the finest yarn we had in the house. It is very difficult to photograph illusion knitting. It needs to be seen in real-life to appreciate how it changes as you …
Sum Wear
You could be forgiven for thinking I am beginning to lose the plot. My latest design is for Barbie! This is not just any Barbie. This is Fibonacci Barbie. This is a project that has been languishing for more than 20 years. I started to make some mathematically-inspired clothes for a teddy bear, which I …
Moon Landing
It was in the week I went on my first visit to the school where I was to start teaching, in my first post, in September. Everyone was very excited. Strangely, I don’t remember watching anything at home but I do remember groups of the children huddled round televisions. Televisions in schools were still a …
Alan Turing
On July 15, Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, announced that Alan Turing will be the face on the new £50 note. You may not be surprised to know that we have Turing-related knitting. In 2014 the film The Imitation Game was released. It is described as a historical drama. Shortly afterwards I came across …
World Wide Knit in Public Day
Next Saturday (June 8th) is World Wide Knit in Public Day. It is an annual event that takes place every year on the second Saturday in June. The aim is to promote knitting, and other fibrecrafts, and to help dispel some of the old preconceptions. Knitters are not little old ladies making bedsocks. There are …