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.
