Cavendish "cycling" gloves

My husband David, aka my male knitting model, has gone off to the Far East without waiting for his gloves...

Hence they are being modelled as "pint-holding" gloves instead.

If you're interested, it's Twickenham Sundancer, kept rather nicely at the Forester in West Ealing.

Sharp eyed readers will also note I had only finished one glove at this stage...

Developments...

So, been a little while since I posted. The bad news is I am still off work. The good news is, I have been designing! There are now two scarf designs, for a man and a woman, in a lace pattern inspired by asparagus. Now I have to be honest. I didn't intend it to be asparagus. I started trying to do a hyacinth. I got something that looked pretty. Maybe a protea? Then I looked from a distance. It was quite clearly asparagus. Like Lord Percy in Blackadder when he invented Green, I was not discouraged. Asparagus is good stuff. So Asparagus Lace Scarf (women) and Sparrow Grass (men) were born. Also, there is a men's cycling gloves pattern - Cavendish - due to go up soon, maybe later today. The design of which has been a useful process, if only because I have found all the mistakes in Pendleton! For which a new pattern has already been added. Potentially even more exciting - I've had a design idea accepted by a knitting magazine. Watch this space... All my designs on Ravelry. Trying work again tomorrow - so will see how I get on.

Pendleton picture (this was while still a work in progress)

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Designing is highly recommended...

Do you know, I'm really enjoying this being a knitwear designer malarkey. It's so exciting to see that people are downloading your pattern! Pendleton now has 23 "faves" on Ravelry and over 50 downloads, though no-one seems to have cast on yet. I spent the weekend trying to design a knitted hyacinth and came up with... asparagus. So it looks like the next project will be my Sparrow Grass scarf, for men & women - watch this space. I'm going to try and find a celebrity chef to model it for me...

I'm a bit fed up, this has just randomly deleted my last 2 posts and I can't find a way to retrieve them... They were hilarious as well, never mind, you'll just have to live without.... Here's the link for my gloves: download now

I phone cover design takes over

This has now overtaken the glove pattern as my first design on Ravelry. It's very basic but a really good first pattern to try Judy's Magic Cast On!

Birthday stash! (part)

By the way, I did manage to get a new needle. And not only finish my scarf but one for my husband too!

RSI and glove designing...

Still sat here on the sofa, been doing so much knitting I now have a very achey arm. So I've been varying the knitting, from straights/DPNs/circs and even (shock horror for me) A SPOT OF CROCHET!!!! Thanks to my parents visit at the weekend and some early birthday presents (well, it would have been rude not to open them when they were around to thank in person). These included a Cath Kidston "crochet box" tin with the equipment to make a granny square cushion. And also a Cath Kidston knitting bag, a Knit Real Shetland book, and a Jamieson & Smith Sheep Heid tam kit. And some chocolate. What high-quality parenting! I've also been varying it with a bit of typing, not just of this blog but also typing up the first part of my first ever original knitting design. This is a pattern for cycling gloves (fingerless mittens I suppose technically), which I've named Pendleton. They've got mock rib backs and moss stitch palms. I've knitted up & typed the left mitt, now deciding how to write the right mitt pattern. Sadly I think I can't chicken out & just write "reverse shaping"... I'll leave it a couple of days before I do the second one, that way I can see how much of my own pattern still makes sense when I try to do no 2. Looks like I might just squeeze both gloves out of one 50gm ball... Ravelry page for Pendleton

Greetings, world....

Well, here I am sitting on the sofa with some weird inner ear thingy that means I can't walk straight. Honest. It's nt the booze. So (day 5 of sitting on sofa) thought it might be he moment to start blogging. More to give myself something to do than because I think anyone might be interested but still, there may be someone out there as bored as me. As you might be able to guess from the title, the theme is knitting. And Hanwell (West London's finest semi-rural suburb). With excursions into preserve making, cooking, rants about people being rude on public transport, animals and various kinds of stuff. Hopefully not too much on my inner ear, as I hope that will be better soon... As far as the knitting goes, not surprisingly I've found myself doing quite a lot in the last few days. I'm meant to be doing a jumper for my husband (David) but the end fell off my needle, so that's on hold until I can walk in a straight line far enough to get to West Ealing and buy a new needle end. So I'm doing a nice quick lacy Louisa Harding scarf for me until that glorious day. I'm working on a design, for cotton cycling gloves, which I'm starting again on as I decided the first version was too big. If it works, I'll publish it on Ravelry. You can find me on Ravelry as hanwellknitter, by the way.