A couple of years ago now I went to the Knitting and Stitching Show at… the Olympia, I want to say? I can’t remember exactly. A sample of this pattern was on display and kept catching my eye (hard not to really, look at it!). Eventually, I could resist no longer and swooped in for the purchase.

The first few rows of a knitting project, which is only about 2 inches long at this point. It’s made from grey yarn. The yarn is sitting in a holder shaped like a black cat, and the knitting is sat on top of the pattern booklet.

This project accompanied me on many train journeys between Brighton and Cardiff as I was planning my move. It went with me to parks and castles and grotty hotel rooms. And it sat in the corner for MONTHS while I ignored that it needed sewing up and blocking because I got scared that I’d done the maths wrong and it wasn’t going to fit. But it did, in the end, so that’s nice.

An unfinished knitting project in grey and bright pink lies scrumpled up on a picnic table next to the pattern instructions. Cardiff’s castle is in the background, slightly out of focus.

Pattern: Volt Sweater by Sue Stratford

Ravelry Link: Volt Sweater

A hand-knitted jumper on a tailor’s dummy. It’s made from grey wool with a huge, bright pink lightning flash right the way across and down the front.



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