I made these mittens for my friend L’s birthday. She’s a writer, the cold season is coming, and I can imagine her typing away at her computer while being cozy and warm. It was the…
October simple fingerless mitts (with knitting instructions)
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September Forest Hat (with knitting instructions)
Even though it’s still hot where I live, you can feel autumn in the air. It was a hard summer, so I am looking forward to the slow melancholy of the season. In this mood…
Blue sky, green grass, short-sleeved raglan sweater
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…
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…
A red knitted beanie (with pattern) and first signs of spring
Hello, hello is this thing on? Um… yeah it’s been a while. What a year! Am I right? We all know what kind of year that was so let’s just fast-forward. There isn’t much we…