Syrma on the loose (blog post on knitterskitchen.com)
One of the people in my knitting group test knitted a shawl a while ago – Syrma by Cailliau Berangere / L’île aux fils. When Christina showed it to us, everyone gasped and exclaimed we wanted to make that too (which isn’t…
Brighton Beach (blog post on knitterskitchen.com)
Have you seen my newest pattern – Brighton Beach? I submitted this design to the design competition for Unwind Brighton – sadly I didn’t win, but that just means I could publish it myself! Read more on knitterskitchen.com
Aileron the Second
When I a couple of months ago received the yarn to start designing this shawl, there was a choice between 9 different colors. Seeing the package I opened, can you imagine how hard it was to make a choice? Not…
New Design: Aileron
It’s live! It has been for a little week now. The launch frenzy and everything around it made me so busy that I have had to postpone some things in order to make room for this! First of all, a…
Camomille # 6
I’ve taken about 2 months to knit a shawl, which previously has taken me a couple of days. This time around, I wanted to use it as travel knitting, and I really didn’t knit more than when I was on…
Mordor
In my last post, I introduced Mordor – a shawl designed by Ann Lundblad, and part of the KAL in the Northbound Knitting group on Ravelry. (Okay, that’s a lot of links!) Well, now I’m done, and the shawl is…
How to spin a shawl
This post has been delayed a bit due to business travel.. But I still wanted to tell you all :) I got this crazy idea. I wanted to spin and knit a shawl for my grandma – I knew she…
Color Affection
I love colors, as so many people do. And when Veera Välimäki showed off her newest design Color Affection, I couldn’t stop jumping up and down! She has something with stripes and short rows – as seen in Stripe Study…
Two fiddles and 1984
A couple of weeks ago a pattern was released on which I had been waiting a while: the Hana shawl. As I had shown interest in it before, the designer gave me a notification that the pattern was released –…
Camomille tea with Coffee cream
Finishing the Camomille which was destined to be a birthday gift, I was aching to make one for myself. Going for a short trip to Germany, which involved 2x 1,5 hours of plane travelling, I found it the perfect moment…
