Are you ready for the next part in our little fall series? You’re Beautiful is a design that’s somewhat special for me. I don’t recall exactly when I started working on this project, but it must have been some time in January or February. I got two skeins of Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light in “Terra” as a present, a colorway that’s a little outside of my own comfort zone and I wouldn’t normally have chosen for myself. But as I started working with it, I was thrilled with this color and all the different shades, and I simply couldn’t stop looking at it anymore. As I knitted row after row of stockinette stitch, an idea slowly started to form. Every woman is beautiful—it just takes…
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After a night full of sleep and a great weekend together with our friends, I finally have some time to show you another design I released recently. I’m really in love with this one. If you follow my blog already for some time, you’ll know that I’m a sucker for stylish mitts. I don’t think you can have enough of them and I really love the way you can spice up an otherwise totally boring outfit with them. So – let me tell you a bit about my Sokol mitts. Sokol mitts are a super quick and easy knit, and their steampunky look makes for a fall accessory that’s pretty cool and stylish. They are worked in the round and the straps and buttons…
Before I go on and show you a couple of new designs, let me tell you something else. I finally got myself a yarn swift. It’s not that I hadn’t liked to have one earlier, I just didn’t like the ones I saw everywhere. My friend has an umbrella swift, and while I really admire its construction, I found it always a bit shaky and weak. Then there are those who “sit” on the table top. Basically a base with four arms and adjustable dowels. The german word is “Mühlenhaspel”, but I didn’t find any good translation for that. Anyway – I really like the way these swifts work, but I didn’t like the look too much. It’s so functional somehow, so naked. No…
… and temperatures slowly start dropping, the time for cozy and soft handknits has finally come! Fall is my favourite season, although the rain does terrible things to my hair. But I can bear that. In the last days I dug out all my knitted shawls and mitts – the ones I wore last year and a couple of brandnew ones as well. It’s a little bit like meeting old friends again, and I had some fun putting them on and off and combining them with new pieces of my wardrobe. Some of them I love especially. My Amrei mitts of course – I wore them practically every day last winter. Inside or outside, in rain, snow and wind, when shopping, at the playground and pretty…
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