Today, I am very excited to present the Stitching Experiments Project. It is an idea that has been brewing in my mind for about two months now. It came to me a few days after I came across a whole heap of finished knitted and crocheted samples in my local yarn store, fraukuhn. The thing…
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Tomorrow marks 3 months since my arrival to Switzerland. I have been enjoying my stay in my second home country and have been doing a lot of knitting. Since the summer there have been a lot of things in preparation and soon I will be revealing little by little. New designs and new plans! In…
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Last summer I was working on several commissioned pieces. A few of them were knitted lace tops. There was a combination of several things going on, but the top on which I used one of my favorite lace motifs, turned out so well, that I was immediately inspired to make another one. Instead of working…
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Another project that was created after a pattern from the Interweave Crochet 2015 magazine, is the crochet lace tunic. This tunic was inspired by the Blithe Dress/Tank pattern in the magazine. It was a custom order, so I had to change many important details: the length, the shape, the yoke and the armhole openings. The…
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It was not long ago when I got my hands on another Japanese book, called Natural Crochet, which is a collection of crochet hats and bags. My hands were itching to try on a hat, and the one I was immediately drawn to, was the Fedora. I researched yarn options from eBay, to Etsy, to…
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This past August, family celebrations were in place. One of my first cousins returned from the US to Greece for the summer to baptize her son. For knitters and crocheters such occasions can mean only one thing: knitted gifts! That’s why it was not long before I sat down trying to figure out…
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