For amirisu's 17th issue, I designed a luxurious and super easy to wear dropped shoulder sweater, Strophe. Overall it's an easy and relaxing knit, quite straight-forward, with a couple of big and small details to keep things interesting! ...
Pattern releases
Rumo cardigan
Meet Rumo, my latest cardigan pattern. "Rumo" means heading, course, direction in Portuguese, and this cardigan is all about direction! The body is knit sideways with a modular construction: using the same instructions and starting at the sides, four pieces are knit and joined together, making up ...
Minamikaze tank top
This past summer I had a design published in amirisu's 16th issue, the Minamikaze tank top. It's a layered tank, with the base layer being a simple a-line bodice with no ease, knit from the top down. The overlay top begins exactly like the base, until the shaping begins to give it that flared shape ...
Verso tee
For obvious woolly related reasons, I'm a big fan of winter, but after we had an unusually warm couple of days last weekend I realised how ready I am for spring. It was so nice to feel the warm breeze in my hair instead of having it tangled up in a scarf. (Yes, I know I'm calling 16°C 'warm,' but it ...
Perfin cardigan
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 ...