My contribution to #HandmadeWardrobe for @[email protected] is my favourite and most-worn make of all time, this gold Lorelei Cardigan (pattern by Deni Sharpe).

I've worn it everywhere for years and it's extremely scruffy and pilled, yet somehow have very few photos of me wearing it so here's a random one of a very early morning outing to Saltburn beach.

Really great pattern, highly recommend all of Deni's stuff. Making a replacement Lorelei in a new colour is currently on my todo list for 2025. But this one did well to last so long!

#Crochet #Cardigan #LoreleiCardigan

In 2021, a friend and I decided to learn "proper" sewing by doing a remote, two-person makealong of simple drawstring bags.

The perfect thing to hold small knitting projects like socks, it turned out!

Sadly her bag didn't work out quite as well due to the sewing machine inexplicably sewing backwards(?) and also a lack of interfacing. Mine was a kerfuffle of its own as the blog post we were following seemed to make less and less sense as it went on.

But we persevered, and we overcame. And now we can *sort of* sew, hooray!

#Sewing #Knitting #ProjectBag #SockKnitting