Damson in Bluegrass

Not long ago I received the long awaited paper edition of Whimsical Little Knits 2 and despite the fact that I still have a couple of midwinter presents (or christmas presents if you wish) to knit I just couldn’t resist casting on Damson.

I actually started in a red yarn before I realised that it would [...]

Cold sheeping it!

A couple of months ago a thread started over at the stash and burn groupies boards on Ravelry. The thread was originally about “going cold sheep for a year” meaning, a full year of yarn dieting.

This coincided with me realising that my yarn chest (an old seaman’s chest) was unable to close due to [...]

Selbu Modern Progress and Orion mitts

My biggest passion these last couple of months has been stranded colour work. And not just any kind of colour work, but going back to my roots and knitting traditional Norwegian mittens (generically known as Selbu mittens, even though most of my patterns are not in fact, from Selbu, just Norwegian) and socks.
What I love [...]

Swatching

Sometimes, I actually do it. Promise.
This time it’s not actually to check gauge, but to see what colour should be the contrast colour, and which should be the main one on the Selbu Modern I’m about to make.

So what I did was to cast on two repeats and on my 3mm DPN’s knit in the [...]