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Grautier

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 …

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Turquoise

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, …

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Real quick

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 …

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50?

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 …

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Sweater weather

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 …

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