Anyone who has been in Cork (or lives here) will probably have come across Fitzgerald’s Park.  Last Sunday we went down there with the boys and while they played in the playground Joe took some photos of my new cardigan Raspberry Layers.

Just outside the railings there is an entire wall with the most brillant graffiti.  This photo was my favourite from the lot:

There were several more interesting ones also:

and here is a close-up taken in front of a dead tree that is covered in a mirrored mosaic:

We had so much fun it nearly made up for how silly you feel trying to model with people around!  When you are in your own garden it somehow does feel quite as daft.

I have added the full details about the new pattern on my For Sale pattern page, or just click below.

I’m very lucky to have such a sweet niece to knit for.  I knit this gilet for her at Christmas, and you have to agree that it looks pretty sweet on her!  I had a hank of Colinette Prism with a wonderful varigated colorway and I was trying to figure out how to knit it.  I loved the way it knitted up from the side and once you added in some short row shaping it was so fun!

The addition of the fuschia pink was a fortunate accident.  I was using the pink to hold some stitches and really liked to way the two colors looked together so I unravelled the start and gave myself matching pink sleeves and sides.  Now maybe you don’t like contrasting color – then just knit it all in a single yarn.  If you perfer solid color you should be able to get gauge easily knitting two strands of dk weight yarn together.

If you want to see some more details take a look at ravelry.  I hope to have this for sale around the same time as Laced Leaves at the start of May.

If you want to be emailed when the pattern is released just let me know.