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 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…
I’m done knitting this cardigan! This has been, no joke, a cardigan two years in the making. I am not a prolific knitter at all, in fact I’d call myself pretty inexperienced. I only allow myself to have one “big” project on the go at once because otherwise I feel overwhelmed. I often have a pair of socks in the…
