Welcome to part 2! If you’ve followed the first step you’ve knit your first toe and you’ve knit the foot part until you’ve reached point B. If you’re not ready, or if you’ve missed the first post you can find it HERE. Before we continue I’d like to refer you Fleegle’s pattern. Please note: I’m …
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How to knit your first toe-up socks – a tutorial – pt1
In the context of “life skills”, we’re publishing a series on how to knit socks. There’s many ways to knit a sock, and we’ll walk you through two of these methods. The first in the series is a toe-up sock, with short but clear GIFs to help you on your way to your first handknit …
How to upgrade your mittens: a pictorial
It’s February, which (on the northern hemisphere) it means it’s cold outside and mittens are a must. At least if you’re biking to work like I am. Even when it’s sunny out, early morning biking is no fun with frozen hands. Let’s talk thrummed mittens. If you’ve never heard of it, you might have seen …
On swatches..
There’s a few subjects that keep popping up in the shop, one of them being the swatch. Although some questions are directly related to actual swatches, most of the questions are caused by the results of not swatching properly. Sometimes customers will have poor experiences with woollen projects “sagging” or stretching out of shape, so …
Winter wear – part 3
In this final post we’re going to go through the part with the decreases, weaving in the ends and making a pompom. Here you can find part 1 and part 2. Those posts are focussed on the cast on and brim, and the colorwork section. In this part we’ve arrived at the final stage: the …
Winter wear – part 2
Welcome to the second installment of our hat “walkthrough”/ tutorial. We’re going to talk about colorwork! If you’ve missed part 1 you can check it out HERE! Choosing colors is a lot of fun, until the project doesn’t turn out the way you intended it to. How did this happen? and how can we prevent …
Winter wear – part 1
I once designed a hat (back in 2017) with yarns we used to sell in the shop. It was a simple pattern, using 6mm needles and Aran weight yarn. Something quick and easy, doable in a weekend when the temperatures suddenly drop. I never really finished the pattern and it sort of remained at the …
Brochan Sweater FO – a tribute to the Stone Washed
Like most of you know, I’m a lazy person.. Well, what I mean is that I like to get as far as I can by the least amount of effort. You lovely people, I’m not going to be knitting my kids amazing, super cute sweaters if I can’t just throw them in the washer.. Enter …
Dancing Leaves Sweater FO
Every once in a while you find a project that you can’t pass up. One of those patterns that haunt you until you’ve seen it made. The Dancing Leaves Sweater is one of those patterns. I usually choose a bigger size for the kids so they can wear it for two seasons. This is why …
FO: Poseidon socks
Sometimes I can get super envious of people who tell me they only have 2 “active’ WIPS. I can get so incredibly jealous! When a project takes too long to finish (or we get a heatwave and it’s too hot), I usually end up starting a new project. I think it’s because a new project …