Craze Crop

I launched straight from my last knitting project into a new one – it’s the perfect lockdown balm and chunky wool-rich knits are a very useful wardrobe addition as temperatures drop and WFH in my draughty flat continues. This is the Pickles Craze Crop pattern , a modern Norwegian pattern company (the pattern is in English) and I was completely smitten with the tiger-stripe colourwork. I was a bit trepidatious when I first read the pattern and realised the colourwork is formed by short-row shaping instead of the intarsia chart I assumed. But after reading it through a few times and googling how to wrap and turn I got stuck in and realised it was...