Cosy crime

    Four years ago I was knitting a cabled hot water bottle cover. Despite being beyond the half way mark, I put it down for some reason and didn't pick it up again until recently when I took a hard look and decided I should have gone up a needle size or two for it seemed to be on the scrimp side.

    Noticing that Jane Brocket's Literary Hotties pattern in The Gentle Art of Knitting calls for the very yarn I was using (Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran), I decided to unravel my work and start again, and I'm glad I did for the results are much, much better.

    Simple garter stitch with the yarn held double makes for a very soft and snuggly cover and a quick and straightforward knit; I diverged from the pattern only at the neck where I worked fewer rows than prescribed but still sufficient for ample coverage.

    Jane explains in the book how her covers come to have literary associations, hence the picture of mine with my current reading, Laura Thompson's biography Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. Very cosy crime!

 

    (Click here for a lovely quote from Dame Agatha herself on what one might call 'the gentle art of becoming the best-selling novelist of all time'.)

Comments

[Barbara]

I've knitted two of these - so easy!

I'm very impressed by the amount of knitting you're doing at the moment, and all such lovely projects.

[Cornflower]

Thank you, Barbara. I have the bug at the moment, it seems!
I'm going to start a second cover soon - as you say, they are so easy.