My Edinburgh Yarn Festival jumper
Finally getting round to blogging my Edinburgh Yarn Festival jumper, and some pictures of the festival itself!
It’s the Climb Every Mountain pattern by Heidi Kirrmaier and the yarn is Phileas Yarn DK in the Wanderlust shade, which I bought at Perth Yarn festival. I got four skeins, which wasn’t quite enough, I’m not sure if because I bought for the size S and decided to do a M at the last minute, or cos my tension is off, or cos the yarn weight didn’t quite match the one in the pattern, but anyway, it meant I had to leave off about ten cms at the bottom and not do an icord bind off.
I loved the pattern (as well as they way it was written – a friend made another of this designer’s patterns recently and said she didn’t like the way things were explained, but I had not problem), its quite repeptitive with a lot of stockinette, but the eyelets keep you on your toes. I think this must be the first time I ever knitted anything where I consistently had the right number of stitches, and didn’t have to fudge it at some point.
I would like to make another just so I can get the length and icord thing right. I had to block this one quite heavily to get the bottom edge to lie flat, and I’m a bit worried it might start to roll itself up as time goes on.
I found my jumper twin at EYF!
I was buying for a two colour jumper at the festival, this was one choice.
There was a photo booth. The pictures were also supposed to go online, but for some reason ours aren’t there, sad times. Kerry’s baby’s face is so cute!
Sew Scottish knitters
La bien aimee looking gorge as usual. Thankfully all 4 ply so I couldn’t be tempted.
This is Sylvie who dyed the yarn for my jumper!
I hadn’t actually been to EYF since they introduced the marquee. It really makes the festival. They’re all admiring a girls dress made from Atelier Brunettte fabric. There were so many amazing garments at EYF, I am just in awe at the combined creativity of everyone.
And finally, the yarn I bought! From Rainbow Heirloom. Am I not the most ridiculous person. Having just knitted a blue jumper and a mustard jumper I am now knitting a blue and mustard jumper. But they are the best colours! I had to order the blue, it’ll be another month before it arrives.
