Having learned to knit a year or so ago and made several flowers, bags and a jumper since then, I thought I would try something more challenging: this heavily cabled sleeveless sweater from the Rowan Dalesmen collection. This young man isn’t a sheep farmer, like the other men in the book but a poet or something like that. I expect he’s really sensitive if a trifle dull but I wouldn’t worry about that. Anyway, I bought the beautifully soft alpaca yarn from the lovely Joanne at Wool&Buttons and started to knit the back of the sweater. You can see that … Continue reading A momentary lapse leads to disaster: the travails of a novice knitter