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…
I am very excited to announce another publication in Knitty, the third in a year in fact! I am also thrilled to share a pattern that can be very useful for the upcoming winter. Nukumori is a pair of knee warmers designed to fit anyone and any body! It is worked in fingering weight, which…
I really enjoy working with color and especially multicolor yarns. Lately I have been playing with the idea of combining very vibrant hues with solids and not in the traditional way; with stripes or in stranded colorwork. Instead, I have been experimenting with lace! More particularly, with the Integrated Lace technique. This method allows the…
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…
The very first fair isle hat I ever came up with was something that made me think of mountains. That hat was an earlier version of Alpstein. At that time, I had worked it at least twice. Once, it turned out so bad, I was feeling ashamed of the result (and angry at my incompetence);…
There are times when I search for vintage knitting and crochet patterns. Some times it is only to get an idea of the fashion of each period, what people used to knit, or to get a glimpse on how patterns were been written. It is not always an enlightening process, but usually it is quite…
A couple of months ago, while looking at patterns on Ravelry, I stumbled upon a German knitting magazine, Verena Stricken. Most of the designs I saw did not really catch my attention, until the Summer 2016 issue. I did not just really like 1 or 2, but 3 designs! Luckily I was able to easily…
I have a long time fascination with crop tops, which is mainly because of my body type; long sweaters and tunics without any waist shaping look dreadful on me. That is why for a long time, I have been modifying designs and generally shortening my top & sweater projects. I have several ideas and sketches…
A few months ago, I happened to revisit the Knitty First Fall 2012 issue and and re-discover an interesting design, Middlemarch. While not entirely my style of clothing, I was intrigued by the special technique, integrated lace, so I set out to knit it. I chose to work with cotton instead of wool, in order…
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…