New knitting project

My current piece of knitting is finished, all apart from sewing on the buttons, so it's time to look through the stash and pick out what to knit next.

I'm got a variety of short-sleeved jumpers/tank-tops/Father Dougal style slipovers which I find incredibly useful in winter - worn over a long sleeved t-shirt they keep me warm without having sleeves flapping about, and I'm looking to make another. I probably need about 300/350grams of wool so should have more than enough in this bundle. I just need now to decide on stripes or fair isle....

Finished - almost

Ta dah! My crochet waistcoat re-working is almost done. There's still a million and one ends to fasten off but the actual crochet and joining up are finished.

before...

If you carefully compare with the original  and the half-way stage you can see where one ends and the other begins.

Crochet waistcoat -

The re-make of an old crochet top is coming along. I'm now at the stage of checking I have enough circles (not yet) and deciding which goes where.




Previous posts  about this project

Not Throwing This Away

 Unpicking

At last!!

Here it is at long last - my crochet waistcoat finished!

Even when I thought I'd reached the end last week, I discovered so many dangling loose ends still to fasten off!

I'm very pleased with how it's turned out but I'm not ready to tackle another crochet project - back to knitting for now!

One last snag

Well, I thought I'd at last reached the end of my crochet project - I'd even completed the edging round the armholes - when I realised there was one last snag....

I'd copied the shape for the back from the front shape, but failed to consider the v-neck shaping and so far have a waistcoat with a deep v-neck at the back! I'm now busy making a few more motifs to fill the gap then hopefully, at last onto the front edging - and finished!

Previous posts about this project can be found here and here

So far, so good

My current crochet project is advancing slowly but surely. I thought I had nearly enough of the motifs worked, so I sketched out the shape of the finished waistcoat (left front) and placed them on it - only to discover I had nothing like sufficient pieces! Back to making circles again for now - which is easier than joining up!

Giving Crochet Another Try

I've knitted (almost) all my life and assume I'm quite good at it - certainly I can knit and watch TV, even knit and read a book (providing book stays open at right page) but crochet has always been a bit of a mystery.
Still, a couple of years ago I managed, very slowly, to make my daughter a crocheted top and since then I've made a couple of scarves, so I though I'd at last have a go something larger for myself.

I'm trying to adapt a Rowan design - with long sleeves - and make a waistcoat. Apart from the bit of having to get out the instruction book to remember how to make a double crochet or a treble, things have gone quite well. I need to use the pattern a lot more than with knitting and it's not so easy to watch TV at the same time but I'm getting there.


The pattern consists of lots of medallions - 4 in all - which have gone quite well. I'm now at the stage of fastening them together, which isn't as easy. I have piles of ready made circles, a paper outline and marks of where the joining up chains should go but things get skewed every time I try to join the circles up.
I seem to need an extra pair of hands to hold things still.
Hopefully I'll have a finished garment to post here soon - fingers crossed!

Rowan "Bruegel" jacket

Bruegel from Rowan mag44 knitted up in some old mohair found in a drawer - it's been there for years! I'm not sure whether this is a jacket or a waistcoat - can a waistcoat have sleeves? Discovered I was short of yarn so finished body, collar and front edging and knitted the sleeves last of all. Started them at the shoulder and knitted downwards - the cuff should have been doubled and rolled back but there was no yarn for it - I even had to undo the tension square to finish off and sew up!

pink mohair jacket

I have run really short of yarn for this project. it was bought as a cheap bundle a long while ago and it isn't possible to buy any more.

the back, front and collar/edging are finished. I have 2 balls and some bits left, which doesn't seem a lot. the sleeves are only elbow length but with a turn back cuff. I'm knitting them downwards from the sleeve head and the length will depend on how much yarn there is.