Flagel Knitting Files

I last left you with some of the pieces of the Gramps baby sweater.  Here it is complete with its green ribbing  and the cowl collar.  (Paul loves this colour combiniation so I think I'll have to find something to make for him using them.  But he's a BIG guy and a sweater might be too much for me.   I'll figure out something appropriate for him though, perhaps socks.)  Mike with my finished Gramps sweater The buttons were the real find in finishing it, at least for me.  I traveled to Dressew on West Hastings in Vancouver.  Over the years it has become my go to place when it comes to all things crafty. Their location is on the fringe of a seedy part of Hastings Street in the infamous east side of Vancouver, but the hours of operation are only during the day so I have never felt uncomfortable walking the streets to get there. This store reminds me of the discount fabric stores found during the ...

In all my years of knitting I have never ever taken a single knitting class.  So when my LYS advertised a baby sweater class that promised to teach several things I had attempted to do on my own but had never successfully completed, I signed up. The great thing about the class was one of the co-designers of the sweater pattern was the teacher.  Alexa Ludeman  from Tin Can Knits helped a few of us through a sweater named Gramps. Let's start with a photo of my co-learners; Alexa is in the center.  My Gramps classmates and teacher  Here's a photo of Alexa's lovely daughter, Hunter, modelling her version of the pattern.  (BTW it is named Gramps because it looks like something your grandpa might wear, pockets and patches on the sleeves.) There were several techniques I have failed to do in the past but managed to do right this time with Alexa's guidance and the tutorials from the website .  First there was the provisional cast-on using a croc...