Let\'s Knit - UK (2019-12)

light). I put the blue (and unexpectedly

green) baby jacket down and brood

on this for a while. What would be

the perfect knitting project to

engender hygge?

“Not a throw,” my husband says,

warningly. “Everything in our house

that can be, has been draped with a

throw. And all because you like being

able to snuggle under your knitting

while you’re still working on it.”

“Is that such a bad thing?” I ask.

“Not as such,” explains my husband.

“But I’m beginning to wonder if your

throws are taking over the house. If

they are, I warn you, we may as well

give up now. They outnumber us

by at least four to one!”

So that’s throws out, then.

Scarves, perhaps? Scarves are

very hygge.

“The cat hunts the scarves you

knit,” my husband reminds me.

“He rips them, you cry, then you

ignore him icily for a week and

there’s an atmosphere.”

Gloves are too iddly, as are

socks. Hats are too small.

Sweaters are only good until the

shaping kicks in. Shawls

apparently remind my husband

sessions on dark evenings, the

cat curled up asleep next to

me, a teacup the size of a skip

and a box of salted caramel

Matchmakers within easy

reach. Unfortunately, so far

only the salted caramel

Matchmakers are within any

reach at all (and my waistline

is not thanking me for it). My

giant teacup means that my

tea is stone cold within ninety

seconds, the cat keeps

waking up suddenly and ruining the

last three rows I’ve knitted with one

swipe of his claws, and the irst time

I tried to knit by irelight I discovered

the next day that I’d got blue and

green yarn mixed up and changed

colours in the middle of a row.

But I am not put of. Surely I can

achieve this compelling, perfectly

conceived vision of cosiness. It’s not

a lot to ask for, after all; it must be

within my grasp. Maybe the problem

is that I’m not knitting the right

project. It should be something large,

enveloping, snuggly-soft, nothing

small or iddly or intricate, nothing

that requires too much

concentration. (Or, clearly, too much

When my eldest was a toddler, he

owned a book about a pig that

decided to hibernate and spent

the winter knitting in a burrow.

Mysteriously, this book got lost

quite quickly. I’m guessing my

husband quickly recognised that

seeing my life goals in book-form

was only encouraging me and

that, if he didn’t get rid of the book

quickly, I might not leave the house

until spring. To which I can only say:

I WISH!

Yes, the season of hygge is upon

us once more, and in my brain,

there is a perfect vision of how it

should work: cosy, irelit knitting

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of his nan. But.... Eureka! The

purpose of hygge knitting isn’t to

make an object. The purpose is the

process. So - and stay with me - it

doesn’t really matter what I knit,

because the knitting is what makes

it hygge!

That’s it. I’m of to knit as many rows

as I can be bothered of a cabled

chunky...thing. By my ire. All in the

same colour, though. I’m not getting

caught like that again!

Claire Thomas is a freelance

journalist and founder of Stitch

‘n’ Bitch group, Knit Pickers

1. 30 years - their ‘purl’ anniversary, 2. Wonderwool Wales, 3. Saturday 27th April, 4., Kerry Lord, 5. Sachiyo Ishii QUICK QUIZ:


2. neckband, 2. provisional cast on, 3. raglan sleeves VANISHING VOWELS: Clara Parkes : WHO SAID THAT?

Bernat Baby Velvet, West Yorkshire Spinners ColourLab DK, Drops FabelMIX & MATCH:

50

Break

TEA

By Claire

Thomas

GIVE ME A

HYGGE

Test your knowledge on

knitting and crochet in 2019.

1

In the summer, Stylecraft

celebrated which anniversary?

2

Which annual fibre festival took

place in Builth Wells in April?

3

What date was Yarn Shop

Day 2019?

4

Which author released a

new book in her Edward’s

Menagerie series?

5

Who designed the Let’s Knit

nativity knitalong?

QUICK QUIZ

Purls of

Wisdom

WIN!

PRINTED

PHOTOS WIN

A PRIZE

“I knitted this as a present

for my daughter in law.”

Violet Shuttlewood

WHICH KNITTING

AUTHOR SAID:

“Yarn is creation, consolation, and chaos

all spun together into one perfect ball.”

ANSWERS:

MIX & MATCH

How good is^

your memory for

yarn names?

Can you match the

yarn to the brand?

1. Baby Velvet


2. ColourLab DK


3. Fabel

A. West Yorkshire

Spinners

B. Bernat

C. Drops

VANISHING

VOWELS

We’ve removed the vowels from three knitting-related

words or phrases. Can you work out what they are?

CLUE: the spacing could be wrong!

1 2 3

nc kbnd prvs nlcs tn rgl nslvs