I knit my first all-over colourwork sweater! I successfully picked 13 coordinating colours for the same project! I STEEKED! This project feels like a huge level up in my knitting game, and I learned so much. Let me tell you all about it! I want to say up front that I’ve decided not to say what pattern it is. The…
As soon as Andrea Mowry released her sweater pattern for Rhinebeck 2024, I was in love. The Framed sweater has a colourwork design that is so quilty! The block strongly reminds me of the Ohio Star quilt block that I learned about when quilting my grandmother’s sampler quilt in 2023. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s definitely similar. I…
I started off as a sewist, but more and more I’m realizing that I could probably call myself a knitter as well. Along my knitting journey so far, I’ve gradually accumulated a bunch of knitting needles. My storage method was to keep all of my yarn craft supplies (circular, double pointed needles, needle pairs, crochet hooks, pompom makers, etc.) in…
I’m here to show you my very first shawl! I never thought I was a shawl person because I pictured mainly women my grandmother’s age with a triangle of knitting draped around their shoulders while sitting in a rocking chair. I was perplexed by how many knitters I saw online making shawl after shawl after shawl. But then a friend…
I finished my first colourwork sweater! It also might be the shortest time that I’ve ever taken to knit a sweater. I don’t necessarily mean how many hours I spent on it (because I didn’t keep track), but if we track from first stitch to blocking, it was only March 6 that I bought the wool. And promised myself that…
