Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Knitting Etc.

  • Making Stripes

    It’s time to talk about knitting again! I finished my Earth Stripe Shawl and immediately started on another famous knit – Charlotte’s Web. This is a design from Koigu that requires 5 skeins of their KPPPM. (Koigu Painters Palette Premium Merino). You change colours gradually as you knit the shawl, so there’s a gradation thing…

  • Project Bags

    Today’s Fibre Friday post is a bit late because I had to wait for some sunshine to take my pix. It’s a beautiful day here, so I finally managed to get those pix to share these projects with you. I’ve been sewing some project bags for my knitting. First, let’s talk about the little ones.…

  • Tink, Knit, Tink

    To tink is to knit backwards, that is, to un-knit or rip back. Another word for the same process is frog – as in “rip it, rip it”. I’ve been tinking in 2018 and thought we’d talk about that today. Tinking my knitting is a lot like revising my books: I think of it as…

  • The Hunt for the Perfect Hat

    I’m trying to finish up some knitting projects, which means I have bits and ends to show you this Friday. First up, a scarf in Kidsilk Haze Stripe that has been waiting to be finished for a very long time. I cast it on (ahem) in July 2013, according to Ravelry, to knit on the…

  • Finishing Up

    I’m finishing up my Earth Stripe Wrap – finally! I took a picture of it yesterday, because it was so sunny. I knew the colours would show up well in the snow. Here’s the length of it: I had wanted to knit three full repeats of the colour sequence, but I’m running out of Majestic…