I’m sorry, but I just had to shout it! 🙂 It’s warm and sunny, there are beautiful flowers everywhere… My favourite time of the year has finally come! So I’ve decided to do some WIP spring cleaning… Stay tuned while I discover the truth about all these long forgotten WIPs! I must admit, though, that …
Last week, my husband and I were on vacation in Arosa, Switzerland. It’s always beautiful there, but this time I got a bonus surprise. All around the village, things had been yarnbombed, from posts to window shutters to a whole cabin of a cable-car. When I wasn’t busy taking photos of all the guerilla-knitting, I …
Today is the International Day of Happiness, and also the beginning of my favourite season. It’s finally spring! To celebrate all this happiness, I want to show you my new shawl that jumped off my needles a few days ago, because – what says happiness like a beautiful rainbow? The pattern is Pansy Triangle Shawl …
A few days ago I was browsing my huge collection of stitch dictionaries to find just “the” stitch pattern for the left wing of my next shawl. And then – there it was. Hiding in a book on Estonian stitches, I found a beautiful flower pattern. But you may have noticed the word Estonian. And …
Heel socks, yarn: Wollbutt Erfurt, color 80930 Sorry, toe up and top down socks – I have found a new love: Heel socks! I learned that technique from Veronika Hug’s book “Die Fersensocke”. As the name suggests, they’re started at the heel with 8 tiny stitches. But with eight incrases every other round (and later …
Aren’t these beautiful? These are knitting pins made by Andrea Wong, used for Portuguese Knitting. The heart-shaped necklace is for knitting with two colors. I’ve decided to switch from Continental to Portuguese to give my tennis elbow and my carpal tunnel syndrome a little bit of rest.
