As I have mentioned before, my mother made a few requests this year. The first one was mittens, the second one was a sweater. She wanted a very long and roomy sweater that she could pair up with a variety of clothes. After the fair isle mittens, she was somewhat thinking of a fair…
Brace yourselves because starting from this post, a lot of custom order related projects are coming. These are the projects that have kept me from much delayed design work, but provided me with the opportunity to work with new design concepts and ideas. First up, is a chevron lace top I made for a friend.…
A quirky but interesting design I discovered a good while ago and wanted to try out, is the Medieval Texting Gloves pattern by A Crocheted World. It basically is a really fun way of making a pair of fingerless mittens – a pair that can be part of a Medieval themed costume. Their construction is…
So far, I have made three pairs of socks that I like to call Finnish socks. They don’t feature any Finnish or peculiar knitting techniques. Their colorwork also does not resemble any traditions. But in my mind, they are Finnish, because they are made with Finnish yarn. In late 2011 in Riga, Latvia I purchased…
This year, along with several custom orders, I received also requests from my mother to knit her some winter accessories and clothing. The first thing she asked for, was a pair of mittens. I had created a black pair for her (in fingering) about 6 years ago, but sadly, they never really left their storage…
Last Autumn (2015), after 1 and a half years of a seemingly unending studying period, I decided to come back to teaching knitting & crochet. I stopped in order to focus more energy and time on my Master thesis. After it was finished, along with the bulk of the studying that had to be done,…
Last October, a very good friend of mine was visiting Athens for a business trip. She is Serbian, so even though we live in the same geographical region (the Balkans), we don’t get the chance to meet more than once a year – and that’s often the best case scenario. So naturally, we scheduled to…
Late last summer I started working on a beautifully cabled project. It was the 3rd Norah Gaughan pattern I had been wanting to make for quite some time, Dickson, after Halyard and Beatnik. It took me some time to complete mainly because of the modifications I performed. I changed the yarn weight from worsted to…
Just as the title suggests, today the post will have a Japanese character. 毛糸だま is pronounced as Keitodama (= let’s knit) and its a combination of kanji and hiragana ‘symbols’*. I have been following the Japanese culture through different media for several years now. I also know a little about the language and aspire to…
The project that I am going to talk about today is rather fascinating. That’s because it incorporates the beautiful concept of fractals as it’s main color work pattern. The second most interesting part is that it is double knitted, creating a double sided, double soft and thick piece of fabric that fends off the…