I've finished the knitting part of the cardi now - all that remains is the sewing-up.
I was delighted to find, on knitty.com, a lovely clear description of how to sew a virtually invisible seam between stocking stitch pieces. And what's more, it works. Even for someone as hopelessly cackhanded as me. It's fairly slow to do, because it's a little fiddly, but worth it because the result looks so much better than anything I've done before in that line.
There will be pictures when I've got it all together.
Meanwhile, the weather has gone decidedly horrid again, so here's a flower that I photographed this morning when it was a bit nicer:-
I was delighted to find, on knitty.com, a lovely clear description of how to sew a virtually invisible seam between stocking stitch pieces. And what's more, it works. Even for someone as hopelessly cackhanded as me. It's fairly slow to do, because it's a little fiddly, but worth it because the result looks so much better than anything I've done before in that line.
There will be pictures when I've got it all together.
Meanwhile, the weather has gone decidedly horrid again, so here's a flower that I photographed this morning when it was a bit nicer:-
There were loads of them too - planted around the edge of the village Health Centre - they certainly made me feel better!