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Cut my hair and caught a plane 💇🏻‍♀️✈️ Wore my newly finished #UpwardsTop for my first day exploring Graz - it is so ridiculously beautiful here! Walked many many steps, ate schnitzel, took loads of photos, found a yarn shop, knit in the park... all good fun 😇 Never sure whether to post non-knitting stuff on here rather than my personal account but swipe for some pretty travel pics if you fancy!

I'll finish writing up / formatting the pattern for this top at some point in the next few days 🤍
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Pattern: #UpwardsTop coming soon
Yarn: @qingfibre Merino Single

The poofiest little bubbly sleeves. Firm believer

The poofiest little bubbly sleeves. Firm believer that Sleeve Island is the best part of a project, especially a second sleeve where I don't need to worry whether it'll turn out right or not 🙌🏻 Anyone else enjoy the home stretch or does second sleeve syndrome hit you hard? 😅
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Pattern: #AvenhamCardigan available via my blog, Ravelry and Etsy (puff sleeve and original flutter sleeve versions both in the same pattern)

Yarn: Cotton 4ply & @fyberspates Cumulus for sleeves

#DrawTheLineSweater 📝 Took me a while but final

#DrawTheLineSweater 📝 Took me a while but finally decided on a name. Makes an excellent outfit for an impromptu Friday pub lunch 🌞
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Pattern: #DrawTheLineSweater coming 25th May
Yarn: @rowanyarns Summerlite DK

#UpwardsTop ⏫ It's finished and I love it. Simpl

#UpwardsTop ⏫ It's finished and I love it. Simple design with neat applied I-cord edgings, which are possibly the most satisfying way to finish an edge ever. And easy! Working top down meant I could knit until I ran out of yarn, and I managed to get a whole top from 1 skein (360m) of 4ply.

The edgings aren't as white as I'd hoped and I daren't wear it with white pants (the colour run during blocking was pretty scary 😬) but I'll wear it lots nonetheless. I think keyhole at the back is my favourite, but could wear it either way since I don't make bust darts for myself (don't exactly need them 😅). The pattern will include optional darts though. Staple simple tank for a summer wardrobe!
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Pattern: #UpwardsTop coming soon
Yarn: @qingfibre Merino Single

The original & the update 🤓 Finishing details a

The original & the update 🤓 Finishing details are my favourite part - love a neat edge and a nice shape. Crochet edgings on knit fabric work so well to cinch everything in and firm it up... even if you've never crocheted before, it's way easier to crochet into a knit fabric than it is to crochet from scratch, so I'd definitely recommend ✌🏻
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Pattern: #TheOneThatIWantCrop available via my blog, Ravelry and Etsy
Yarn: @stitchandstory Secret Garden DK

Turns out the #TakeTurnsTank is a pretty quick kni

Turns out the #TakeTurnsTank is a pretty quick knit when you don't have to rip it back 58 times 🌚 Many of my wonderful test knitters have finished already so I've brought the release date forward a bit to the 25th May, same day as the (still nameless) white sweater. Trouble with naming patterns is that half the time I think I've had a good idea, then check Ravelry and it's already been used - just thinking of something that sounds nice doesn't cut it 🙈 Hardly surprising when there are literally millions of patterns out there! I like a name to suit the mood of the item, be kinda relevant, sound nice as #hashtagsweater... it's a whole palaver that I keep putting off 😅
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Pattern: #TakeTurnsTank coming 25th May
Yarn: @kokonyarn Merino linen and Slubby Mohair (Ad - yarn support provided)
@rowanyarns Summerlite DK

Most definitely the brightest thing I've ever made

Most definitely the brightest thing I've ever made 🌝 I loveee the little cap sleeves of the #BrightestTee and am planning to make more short sleeved items next!

I've finished a few sleeveless summery-summer knits (which reminds me, must block the latest FO), so I think another tee is next on my list. They're good for the not quite so warm days - #PoisonedAppleTop is definitely a favourite for those. Which do you prefer making, tees or sleeveless? Or should I prep for a heatwave and make bralettes? 😅
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Pattern: #BrightestTee available via my blog, Ravelry and Etsy
Yarn: @thediscreteunicorn high twist sock in shade Pink Lemonade

Weekend away eating & drinking & walking & swimmin

Weekend away eating & drinking & walking & swimming & running & more drinking with 20 girls. Having the best time and cracking out my knitting at every opportunity 🤓 #FeelsRightTee feels right (ahem) for the occasion!
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Pattern: #FeelsRightTee available via my blog, Ravelry and Etsy
Yarn: @rico_design cotton & @fyberspates handdyed 4ply

Bit of a theme going on atm 💙🤍 #TakeTurnsTan

Bit of a theme going on atm 💙🤍 #TakeTurnsTank is currently being test knit, and I'm going back and forth between the other two WIPs trying to use every last scrap of the yarn. The navy is staining my hands blue as I knit so I have colour catchers at the ready for blocking 😬😬😬
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Pattern: #TakeTurnsTank coming soon (left)
Yarn: @kokonyarn Merino linen and Slubby Mohair (left) & @qingfibre Merino Single (centre & right)

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