When I first started sketching the Isometric Scarf, I had it all charted – I really wanted to get all those corners between the vertical and horizontal ribs just right. When I started scaling the pattern to get the right proportions, I noticed that I could also grade the design up to a wrap size, ...
Alinea cardigan
Alinea is my latest self-published pattern, a sport-weight cardigan that I brought out last month. It's a beautiful autumn day today so I thought I ought to write a little bit about my favourite autumn cardigan! I originally knit the first prototype of this design two years ago, and it was one of ...
Diesis for Pom Pom Quarterly
All photos by Nicole Mlakar for Pom Pom Quarterly. Meet Diesis, my newest design for issue 22 of Pom Pom Quarterly! This autumn issue was guest edited by Juju Vail and aren't the knits, models, photos and styling just beautiful? I was really drawn to all the pattern mixing and the rich, bold ...
Twisted Yarn Overs and the BYO
In the Minamo pullover, I used Twisted Yarn Over increases, and not just the good old regular Yarn Over (YO) but the Backwards Yarn Over (BYO) too – but knit into the back leg and the front leg respectively to twist the holes shut. Increasing like this might seem needlessly different when the ...
Crochet market bag
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, ...