Pattern: None, just spiral socks Yarn: Regia Super Jacquard Color, Colorway 07203 I love the look of the yarn in the ball, but I don’t care too much for the way it looks knitted up… But at least they are almost done 🙂 Pattern: Simple & Sweet by Hope Vickman Yarn: Sesia Mistral …
This is a photo of my great-grandmother, Betty. I remember many happy times as a child, when I was allowed to spend the night at her house. She made me custard with strawberries (which I still love to this day), we played Ludo or watched soccer. Yes, she loved soccer and would get up in …
Vicki – Thunder and Lightning M – Margrit’s Pi Shawl needle-and-hook – Thunder and Lightning Congratulations! I’ve sent the pattern of your choice to the email address you entered when commenting! Happy knitting!
My three patterns that I have for sale on Ravelry have 200 hearts together! Thank you so much to everyone who favourited one of my patterns! Eri’s Shawl Thunder and Lightning Margrit’s Pi Shawl To celebrate, I’m giving away three patterns! For a chance to win, leave a comment on this blog post telling …
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.
