Fancy stitch for clue 12 of the APGalsXMAS MKAL 2020 – available on Instagram by Mary E Rose Designs, Artesanitarium and me, Knitted_in_Switzerland! Sign up for the newsletter here to get the Welcome PDF and the key to all stitches! Hold one stitch to the back on a cable needle (I used a lockable stitch …
What’s your lucky number? A lot of people answer this with seven (personally, I’d say 2) and when I started designing this shawl with its seven panels, I knew I wanted to call it Lucky Seven. Lucky Seven Shawl is a slightly asymmetric crescent shawl with an interesting construction – it consists of 7 wedges …
I’m super excited to have two patterns in the Unusual Shawls Issue of Knotions Magazine! Knotions Shawl is a beautiful pi shawl with a knit on border. The stitch pattern makes it really special – I’ve designed it myself and it is based on a secret code for the word “Knotions”. The pattern is super …
When I decided to write the blog post about yarn dominance, I needed a swatch of course. But let me tell you a dirty little secret – I hate swatching. I hate swatching so much that I’d rather sit down and knit a useful little hat instead of a small 15 x 15 cm (that’s …
Runterscrollen für Deutsch / Scroll down for German What is your preferred way for stranded knitting? One color in each hand? Both in the left? Both in the right? Over the same finger? Over different fingers? Or do you have a knitting thimble? No matter which is your preferred way, unless you’re Arne and Carlos …
Today I’ve published the last two chapters and the last pattern for the How to read charts ebook! Splashes of Light is a pretty cowl closed with a button, with lace patterning on both sides. The decreases on the wrong side of the work are a little tricky to work at first, but it will …
I know that it’s just 3 days till Halloween, but that isn’t celebrated much where I live. Neither do we celebrate Thanksgiving. So, for me, the next big holiday is Christmas. And that’s less than two months away! Today is the first day that is much colder – Indian summer is definitely over. I’m sitting …
Today I’ve published the next pattern in the How to read charts series! You can get the single pattern or the ebook with five patterns and the chart reading guide! The single pattern is 25 % off until October 27th, end of day, with the coupon code PillarsofLight Cables are so easy to work – …
When I first started knitting, I was afraid of charts. I would rather try to keep my place in an endless string of k and p than read these strange symbols that did not make sense to me. But once I learned how to read the symbols and how to remember their meaning without having …
A specialty of Estonian Lace knitting are nupps (which rhymes with soup). They are super pretty, but on the wrong side row you have to purl 5 or 7 stitches together and that is no fun. There is an easy solution, though – make the nupps using a crochet hook! In this tutorial I will …
Easy nupps with a crochet hook / einfache Noppen mit einer Häkelnadel Read More »
