All photos by Amy Gwatkin for Pom Pom Quarterly. Illustrations by Elena Skoreyk Wagner. Have you seen Pom Pom Quarterly's new spring issue? This one is all about stamps, with each design inspired by a stamp from a different country, and a couple of really lovely articles about mail ...
Inkwell pullover
The new amirisu magazine was published last week, with my newest design – Inkwell. This pullover is made up of 4 panels, with colourwork down the centre and stockinette along the sides. When I first started sketching this, I had been sewing a lot with my bodice block, which gave me the idea of ...
Isometric Wrap
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 ...