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…
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);…
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…
Rhombus Lamina has been an interesting design; it was initially planned to become a shawl, but ended being a cape. There were several factors that influenced that transition. If I were to describe the design process as a mathematical problem, it would go like this: The variables here are: the size, actual shape and how…
This month a particular project takes the spotlight and I am really excited to be able to finally write about it! Bakanasu is a design that has been under wraps for 3 whole years. It now appears in Knitty’s Spring & Summer 2017 issue. Bakanasu is a lace weight silk top with unusual…