Thursday 22 October 2020

Coofle Jumper

Balls of yarn in colours ranging from deep plum purple, lilac and pale pink to fresh mint green, photographed against a background of hand-knitted blankets neatly folded.
'Coofle' by Kate Davies was released at the beginning of UK lockdown and it got into my head a little, I spent some time looking through my yarn stash to see if I had anything suitable. I found some gorgeous green Felted Tweed yarn that I'd chosen as one of my Christmas presents. It's one of the Kaffe Fassett colours and is called Vaseline Green, an odd (to me) name because surely Vaseline is sort of white in colour? Well! It turns out that Vaseline is also a type of glass, a lovely green glass, also known as uranium glass.

The colourwork cuff of a hand-knit sleeve, knit using green and purple set against a background of the undulating garter stitch and simple lace of a traditional Shetland hap shawl.

Can you spot the mistake in my corrugated ribbing? Ha ha, I didn't spot it till I was halfway up the sleeve (the contrast colours should be purled not knit).
 

Three yarn-based projects are pictured against a dark blue background. One is a colourful granny square blanket, one is a long strip of knitted edging for a hap blanket in a soft speckled hand-dyed yarn held double with lace mohair. The third project is a mint green jumper which is being knit in the round, the progress of which is halfway to the underarms.

The whole project took months, I simply lost steam with it and had many other things on the go that I wanted to finish first. The above picture was taken after I resolved to take a weekly picture of my knitting projects to document their progress and to spur me on a little


I was dreading reaching the yoke, it wasn't appealing to me at all, I just wanted to knit plain stocking stitch and that was it! 

A handknit jumper is hanging against an inbuilt pine wardrobe, the sort with those annoying slats which get so dusty! The jumper is a bright mint green colour with a colourwork yoke. Hanging to the right of the image is a string of seashells, a painted wooden heart  and a small simple natural wooden butterfly.

A woman with untidy bobbed hair models the yoke of her hand-knit jumper. The yoke has subtle spot and diamond patterns knit in pink, purples, green and white. On the wall behind her are small embroidered hoops with floral designs. There is also an old dark chest of drawers with a stack of books on its surface.

Finished! I'm really pleased with this one, the fit is good, the colours are LOVELY and I've worn it a lot.
 

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