This is a gorgeous summer top I made last year and have worn loads – it’s great with jeans for a casual look or with a skirt and heels really dressed up.
The wool is Rowan Summer Tweed in a lilac colour (poss Vanity?) and this top used 3 skeins..as I had 5 skeins I still have 2 which I have not found anything to do with. The yarn was not easy to knit as the knobbly texture meant it did not slip across itself or the needles very easily but when knitted up the texture of the fabric is lovely.
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Have been away for a wonderfully relaxing week at the Yediburunlar Lighthouse near Fethiye in Turkey. It’s a little boutique hotel with only 6 rooms which is, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere which means there is very little to do except relax.
It’s a lovely place made more lovely by our hosts – thanks Leon & Semra – and the fantastic vegetarian food prepared by Semra. My hubby has posted more on his blog –
http://www.pluggedout.com/lifeandtimes/ and Leon has a blog here
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Yes – it’s another aran jumper! I love knitting these things and just can’t stop I’m afraid, if I see aran wool I have to buy it. This wool was bought specifically to knit an aran for my hubby. I knit him at least one warm wooly every winter as he cycles to work every day and I like to make sure he’s nice and warm. He’s about 6′4″ and has very long arms so buying jumpers to fit is always a problem.
The pattern on this one was quite simple and the jumper shape was also simple – no shaped armholes – the back and front were knit with straight edges and then just simple shaping for the shoulders and neck.
The wool itself was what I fell in love with, it’s quite a lightweight aran with (I think) about 10% manmade fiber but it was the colour that drew me – it’s a denim blue with lovely changes of dark and light which looks different as it moves and as the light falls on it.
I picked only two aran stitches – a simple moss stitch which symbolises abundance and growth and a cross over chevron. The chevron is a variation of cable filled in with moss stitch.
He wears this continually and it’s the reason I had to knit an aran for his father…and having done that my m-i-l then complained she didn’t have one so I had to knit her one last Christmas!
This is one of my favourite pieces of clothing. I fell in love with it when I went to John Lewis’ (a department store) in Reading about 18 months ago. I had gone in to buy some wool to knit yet another baby shawl for yet another friends baby and there, in the corner of the wool department, was one of these coats….and I had to have one.
This is my father-in-law wearing an aran jumper I knitted as a birthday present for him last year. He lives in Cornwall and has a yacht so an aran jumper seemed ideal for him. The yarn was (I think) 100% wool and I adapted an old jumper pattern adding aran patterns chosen specially for him.
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These were knitted in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran from a pattern in the latest edition of knitty.com – “Fetching”. They are brilliant – the wool is wonderfully soft and a pair of gloves takes only one ball and knits up in a couple of hours. What could be more satisfying! Perfect for keeping wrists and hands warm and fingers free for…..well, knitting another pair perhaps?
This colour is shade 617 and is a lovely plummy shade. I love this wool as it comes in a huge variety of really lovely warm, autumn colours and is easy to knit and beautiful to wear.
Cashmerion Aran is 55% merino wool, 33% microfibre, 12% cashmere and knits on 5mm needles. These gloves are knit on 4mm needles however and so are a very solid fabric to keep out the chill.
I think I’ll be knitting a lot more of these before the winter is out.
