Here's my first finished object of the year, and it's crochet for a change. My regular shopping bag is falling apart so hopefully this one will be a suitable replacement. I discovered it holds at least five sweaters so volume capacity shouldn't be a problem. (Sweaters as a unit of measurement... I ...
Minamo for amirisu
Issue 12 of amirisu magazine was published this weekend and I designed a pattern for it, Minamo! It's an a-line shape pullover, with contiguous set-in sleeves and a lot of short-rows – with plenty of stockinette but definitely not a boring knit. As it's knit top down, in the round and in one piece, ...
A vest into a hat
This hat was once a vest, a vest that was unravelled because I ran out of yarn knitting a sweater from an unravelled dress. Knitting lends itself so well to making new things out of old things, if you can bear to rip out your own work. These particular 'old' things had been practically unworn, ...
Gifting socks
This Christmas was the first time I knit a pair of socks for someone else. It's incredibly convenient my recipient and I have the same shoe size, but I'm not sure I'll be knitting socks for anyone else anyway. Hats and scarves and even gloves are easy and 'normal' things to give but I think hand ...
Knitting Christmas
Happy holidays! I'm not terribly big on Christmas so I surprised myself when I decided to knit this hat on a whim, and surprised myself again when it worked! A while back my friend showed me a very cool sweater she had with a fascinating 3-dimensional stitch pattern that looked like dragon ...
Colour dominance in stranded knitting
If you're familiar with stranded knitting, you've probably heard of the concept of colour dominance. I won't be writing about how holding the yarns determines dominance because there are so many different knitting styles, and so many smart knitters have already written about it more eloquently than ...