I just won two gold medals in the Ravelympics.
One of them was just fun, an Ysolda hat pattern called Rose Red. The construction of this hat is genius with all shaping coming from the pattern itself (lace and cables).
Knit in K1 Yarns Scappa some gift yarn from Edinburgh in a perfect blue/green colour. Love it.
Rose [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stashbusting! After actually putting 99% of my stash into ravelry I felt an extreme need to use some of it and get it out of the calculations…
Thus the sari silk rug was born
Note: project looks a lot better IRL, especially in sunlight. Unfortunately, the camera can’t capture it :/ but it actually looks good. promise.
Because [...]