After making my first raglan sweater, I wanted to play a bit more with colours and tension. When I first saw holstgarn at my local yarn store, I bought two skeins each of sweet pea…
Blue sky, green grass, short-sleeved raglan sweater
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Pig amigurumi toy from Pica Pau book
Gift knitting has many surprises. I wanted to learn how to make crochet toys and got the wonderful Animal Friends of Pica Pau by Yanina Schenkel. This book is clearly written and the characters are…
A boxy brioche cardigan
I’ve been in love with babaa sweaters and their whole aesthetic for some time now, and even if I respect the ethos and the branding and offering decent wages to their employees, based on their…
Why I love knitting with rustic yarn
I have been pretty obsessed with Holstgarn Supersoft since last autumn when I discovered it. I was already obsessed with a Spanish brand called dLana, because the rustic wool reminded me of the wool my…
Things spring will do to you
I’ve never liked pink as a colour. Not pink, not lilac, not purple. And lately I found myself wanting to knit gifts in these colours, and I was wondering why, until I saw these photos…
A raglan sweater of many firsts
I had tried making a sweater on circular needles five times before this one. I wanted to love circular knitting on circular needles and I couldn’t. With this sweater I discovered it was the cable…
An ode to worn socks
Oh, the pleasure of casting off a brand-new sock. The perfectly aligned stitches and, on the horizon, the places these socks will walk, the weight they will carry. We share a lot of photos of…
Knitting a red wool beret on straight needles
I have finally conquered the circle! That’s how I felt when I finally understood the maths of the beret. For some reason, for years I wanted to knit a beret and I had downloaded free…
Sewing a turtleneck by hand
The last time I have sewed more than a few centimetres by hand was maybe when I was a teenager, before I bought my first sewing machine. I remember I made myself a dark green…
Slow stitch, a potholder made of tiny scraps
One of the most inspiring books I read last year was Claire Wellesley-Smith’s Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art. It talks about practising slow making, creating a journal of stitches, of repetitive embroidery as…