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 ...
A new hat pattern, Dashes
The Dashes hat, my second pattern, was released last week! I'm so happy with this one, it's fun but not too over the top. It's a stranded colourwork hat and comes in 7 sizes, from Newborn to Adult L. The colourwork chart is really easy to memorise so it hits that sweet spot between easy but not too ...
Bubble sleeves
Lately I've had sleeves on my mind, particularly sleeves with a bubble silhouette. It's such an elegant shape and quite refreshing, for me at least – I suppose because it's rather feminine, a quality I'm not usually drawn to. I've gathered up some beautiful knits that achieve a rounded silhouette ...