This cute little guy is Grautier (grey animal, but also a name for a donkey). He lives somewhere in our neighborhood and visits us several times a day to get love and food. He has been doing this for several years already, and when I decided to make a cat-inspired collection of knitting patterns, of …
Remember the last photo of my temperature blanket where I wasn’t happy with all the turquoise? Well, the universe listened and gave me a neverending streak of purple and cornflower blue instead. That’s not only just as boring, it’s also much colder with temperatures down to – 3 °C. But I’m proud that I’m still …
Last year in spring I started the Drops CAL for Spring Lane Mystery Blanket CAL. The beginning went well, with a lot less swearing than during the (still unfinished) The Meadow Mystery Blanket CAL. Then some people who crochet a lot better and faster than I do and probably don‘t have 30 projects going at …
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There’s something I learned about temperatures, temperature blankets and starting them in January. Temperatures don’t change much in January where I live. Neither from day to day nor from high to low on a given day. So at the moment, my temperature patches are mostly turquoise. Turquoise for high, low, today, tomorrow. On lucky days, …
First things first! I have uploaded two new videos to my youtube channel – Provisional Longtail Cast On in German and English! Let me know what you think or what you’d like to see next! And now let me tell you the sad story of the WIP of the day. The random number generator chose …
Just a quickie from me and my ever-aching head today… Day 2 of the temperature blanket – done The third big project for the year is to knit my way through Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac. This is the interesting part of the swatch cap for the Aran Sweater for January. It’s currently taking a bath …
A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. And my second big plan for the year begins with this 10×10 cm (4×4″) square. It will grow up to be a temperature blanket showing the high and low temperatures every day in the town where I live. On January 1st, that was 5.3 …
Happy new year, everyone! May you always have the right yarn and enough of it! I have big plans for 2018, the first is a serious Finish or Frog! Rules: Every day I use a random number generator to choose one of my countless WIPs. It will either be frogged or I will work on …
Can you believe this – I’ve self-published my 50th pattern today! Unbelievable! This definitely needs to be celebrated, so until the end of the year, buy my anniversary pattern Fibonacci’s Great Grandmother and get one of my other patterns for free with the coupon code Fibonacci! The first idea for this design came into my …
Yesterday was a nice and sunny day, really warm for the end of November. Today, it’s COLD! And tomorrow we’re supposed to have snow. So today is the day to show you my favorite sweater patterns from this year’s GAL – are you ready? First, Coronis by Emily Ringelman – it’s the sweater I’ve chosen …
