After unpicking back to the short rows 8 times as I couldn’t get the Ladderback to sit flat I have admitted defeat and gone back to using the twisted float method. Now I am progressing again and almost up to where I was before all the frogging. I watched the videos, but never quite got it right. I was so afraid of ruining my yarn that I have defaulted to my usually floats.

Due to an eye operation, a new puppy and heat waves it took some more time but I am glad with the result. I used yarns from my stash: Schachenmayer Soft and Easy Lana Grossa Cammello Ula+Lia Amethyst Qing fibre Dashing Sassy Spash. The mkal was very clear written, only had 1 question on which Zaneta responded immediately. The videos also helped me through the process. It was fun to learn new techniques. Now gonna dive into a new adventure, the Daydream Lily!

After watching a couple of videos I think I don't know anything about knitting 😔 and after over 60 years of knitting I'm now a beginner again

I need to get a new pair of gloves for knitting. I don't use worsted weight often because it tends to fatigue my hands more and I'm fixing the button band and cuffs of my Rujuu cardigan and my thumbs are screaming at me. What are your favorite ones?

I have finished my refracta sweater and have really enjoyed knitting it. I kept pretty much to the pattern until the end of the yoke and then completely deviated from the pattern and basically redesigned it to repeat the ‘eye’ motif another couple of times, each time with a different background colour. I also knitted it in the round and just purled very second row. I did an intarsia twist each time I changed colour to keep the seam tight. I think you barely notice the seam. I wasn’t sure how to finish it off and tried a couple of ways but eventually decided on a corrugated ribbing on the sleeves with a stretch bind off and then did something similar at the bottom of the body, just going down to a smaller needle and doing two handed colourwork for the final two rows and a stretch bind off. This is successfully stopping it curling. I absolutely love this sweater. It’s knitted in Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino, so a sport weight - heavier than the pattern called for - but it will make it cosy for autumn/winter/spring and I’ll get lots of wear out of it. https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Docmarr/refracta-sweater