A domestic miscellany

Home oeconomics: the science of managing a household. This is my domestic journal, an intermittent record of recipes, home improvements, and textile crafts.
Posts tagged "vest"

A finished sweater. I mean jumper. Or rather, vest.

Way back at the start of the year I said that this year should be a year of sweaters, or jumpers as we call them in Australia. I’d tried to knit a couple of jumpers before, but something always went wrong. Now with the help of Ravelry I felt a lot more confident, so I...

Knitting update

Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this. Here are some of my recent knitting projects: This is a top-down hat knitting according to the recipe in Barbara Walker’s “Knitting From the Top Down”. Only I made it too big, so I just kept going and going until it came down to around...