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…
Sometimes, some projects pop up out of no-where. Last August, and while I was working on some long haul projects, a interesting offer popped up on my Facebook feed. Sheila toy Stromberg was offering a test for a very pretty crochet collar. Even though I am not a big fan of collars, I really liked…
There are times that you unexpectedly discover a new yarn, fall in love with it’s colors and fiber content and then… learn that the company that produces it has gone out of business. This happened last June, when upon visiting one of our town’s local yarn stores I stumbled upon Lanas Stop Algodon Soft. There…
Another type of project I worked on during the past summer, was summer cotton tops. The idea was to create simple lacy tops, that would work well for hot weather. The construction was really easy: seamless, in the round, and except one example, bottom-up. For each project I used a different lace pattern – each…
This past summer, something of an explosion in interest in crochet swimwear occurred in my city. It is highly possible that this happened also elsewhere in the country, but I was generally surprised by the sudden demand. Crochet swimwear has been fashionable in recent years, but I really did not expect this trend to reach…
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…
Now that I am thinking about it, this year has definitely been a year of non-selfish knitting – a year of requests. There are several projects that I have completed and are to be described in the future and some of them were for my mother. More than a year ago, my mother was looking…