As my Instagram feed attests, I started swatching this reversible double-knitted blanket some time ago. I actually finished it around October last year, but then our Australian summer hit, which soon turned into the Black Summer. We were in drought, we couldn’t get any vegetables to grow, even with constant watering (they knew better than… Continue reading Sarabande blanket
Asks literally no one! But I’ll tell you anyway. It was hard to find a short catchy name that wasn’t already taken. I wanted the reference to knitting to be oblique rather than explicit – so including the word ‘loop’ seemed a good idea. One of my favourite films is the Coen brothers’ Hudsucker Proxy,… Continue reading Why Loopenzeloop?
I’ve been very quiet lately, but not completely idle. Apart from a massive amount of professional work that keeps getting in the way of my knitting, I’ve been working on a set of dolls and clothes for some time. Once they were made, the hard part was finding time to photograph them, then write, design… Continue reading Meet the flower girls
We’ve recently, with the help of our very generous neighbour, been doing this … You might think it looks relatively simple, but in erecting this shed frame, we made about four blunders, one of which had to be fixed up in the air, with our neighbour climbing about like a monkey. The reason it was… Continue reading An instructive lesson
Welcome to Loopenzeloop. This is primarily a knitting blog, with information about my latest knitting designs, but I will probably also stray into gardening or country life in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. So far my patterns available on Ravelry have all been concerned with the double knitting technique. That’s fun, but I’m not… Continue reading Looping the loop
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