My name is Sarai, I live in Portland, OR and love to make things.
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Here’s my latest finished knitting project. It’s called Made So Quickly and it’s from the book A Stitch in Time. I actually have the book from the early 1970s, but the new one seems to be updated with gorgeous photos and modern yarns, so I highly recommend it! I’m not 100% crazy about the yarn [...]
I am dying to make sweaters from this ice cream colored yarn I just received from Colourmart. If you haven’t seen Colourmart before, they sell cashmere, silk, and other luxury yarn factory remainders for very affordable prices. I picked out a pale blue cashmere/merino blend, a mint green cashmere/merino, dove grey 100% cashmere, and pale [...]
Long ago, I promised I’d share with you the amazing book of patterns and motifs I bought in Iceland. This book was a real splurge for me. It is huge, gorgeously printed by the local museum in Reykjavik, and as far as I could tell, unavailable outside of the country. I went back and looked [...]
Check out the new scarf and aviator cap I knitted up recently! I’ve been dying to make a hat like this for a while, and I think the scarflette is adorable and quite warm! The yarn is Malabrigo merino worsted in mineral red, and it is so soft. It’s kettle dyed and has some slight [...]
If you liked the hat I posted yesterday, you should take a look at Boutique Knits by Portland-based Laura Irwin. This book is full of gorgeous accessories with really interesting twists. I especially love all the hats and mitts (two of my favorite things to knit and wear in cold weather), and the interesting techniques [...]
I just finished this wonderfully soft, warm hat from Boutique Knits, a book I received as a gift. I’m going to be posting more images from the book shortly, it’s got some great patterns! I used Rowan Cocoon, which I LOVE. It is so warm and soft, and the texture is just perfect. Next up [...]
This is a halloween sweater for a certain little girl who is dressing up as Lucy from the Narnia books (before she goes to Narnia). Her mom asked for help finding a vintage dress similar to this reference photo, and I offered to do the sweater up. The actual dress ended up being purple-blue colors, [...]
Here’s another sweater I finished not too long ago. I hadn’t shown it before because I despised the buttons I’d chosen for it, which were cheap-looking plastic things, so I replaced them with these gorgeous etched glass ones. The pattern is from the German knitting magazine, Rebecca, which labels itself “the young knitting magazine with [...]
I finished this sweater fairly recently, and I’m really liking the way it turned out. It’s a British pattern from 1934, which is contained in my copy of Jane Waller’s A Stitch In Time. I used a somewhat heavier yarn, Knitpicks’ Shine Sport in Orchid, which is bit more violet-based than it looks like here. [...]
I recently received a copy of a new book by Kathleen Taylor, I Heart Felt: Eye-Popping Designs For the Inspired Knitter. Now, I am not the world’s most experience felter. In fact, I’ve had rather lousy luck with felting and I really don’t like all the uncertainty around it, especially if you’re working with something [...]