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)