Yarn

Design Process: Plaited Tam

From FILATI Lavori a maglia #14 (a magazine of knitting patterns I found in a kiosk in the Milano Centrale train station):


Sometimes swatches lie

I decided to knit myself a Plaited Tam, but I want


Yarns for Cambia Capelet

I usually like to suggest some possible alternative yarns for my patterns:  I like to hit several yarn price points (and maybe if we're lucky, some of those yarns can be found on sale), some k


Rhodopsin*

I've been doing a lot of swatching in the past few weeks, both for unbloggable projects and for this capelet (thanks,


My own Leaf Yoke Top

I really hated to give up the sample I knitted in Tahki Nova for my


Road trip!

One disadvantage of having spent most of the last three years abroad is that I rarely have had the chance to get together with other knitwear designers.  So when


Swatch to the rescue

While knitting away on one sleeve of my yet-to-be-named top-down pullover, I realized that I probably wouldn't have enough yarn to make the sleeves as long as I wanted (slightly past wrist length).