I love the creative element of designing knitted cardigans. As such, I am always on the lookout for different stitches and how they can be joined together to make a pattern. A lot of thought and swatching go into creating a new pattern and this post shows the evolution of a pattern. The first step is deciding on the yarn. …
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Hannah Thiessen’s book Slow Knitting: A journey from sheep to skein to stitch (Abrams NY 2017) is a new book on my knitting bookshelf. I have to confess it was the title which drew me in; I wanted to know all about this thing called ‘slow knitting’. In her introduction, Hannah laments the constant movement of timelines, deadlines and other …