Life has been hectic lately. You know when things get very busy and very stressful, and you don’t have time for the things you love and you can’t enjoy them anyway because you feel worried and anxious ALL the time? It sucks, right? Stress comes and goes. I thought I’d focus instead on some of [...]
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. [...]
