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. [...]
