Lately the weather around here has been improving ever so slightly and I am beginning to hope for an actual summer. Hopefully spent by the sea wearing lots of knits! Maybe that doesn’t sound like signs of a sunny, warm summer, but I am seeing so many amazing knitted tops everywhere just now and it’s probably my favourite thing. There are…
A while back I accidentally released a pattern. And by that I mean that nothing was planned or thought out. I’d just knit a scarf/wrap thing that my friends on Ravelry happened to like and so I wrote a short description of what ended up being the Simple Lines scarf. It was one of the first projects I designed myself. It’s funny but the whole process was so 1-2-3 that …
A lot can be said about Swedish knitter Britt-Marie Christofferson (b. 1937). Most of it I didn’t know until a few days ago, when I stumbled upon her book Stickning at the local library. Since then she has become somewhat of a hero to me. I dare you to look at this picture of her […]
A while back I was blissfully listening to episode 15 of the podcast Woolful. Ashley Yousling and her two guests Sue Blacker and Kim Goodling, were discussing the merits of Gotland sheep, a Swedish breed that American shepherds have been painstakingly trying to recreate from imported semen samples over many years (yes, seriously!).
Gotland is an island a couple of hours from where I live and the sheep are quite common around here. I never really thought about gotland sheep or the wool they produce. Now I got schooled on them from 3 people on the other side of the world.
I took this picture of my current work in progress last week when I was visiting my mom’s workshop in Copenhagen. At some point it might be a cardigan but right now it’s a pile! Yup this project is at that awkward stage where it doesn’t really look like anything but unspecified knit fabric. There are […]
This sweater has lived in it’s own constantly open tab in my browser for a while now. I look at it often just to take in that amazing little dolman twist and daydream about effortlessly throwing it on in the morning. The designer is a lovely lady called Elizabeth Suzann, based out of Nashville ( …where Karen Templer from Fringe Association is also located, what’s up Nashville!?).
Reading her statement feels a bit like reading a very precise description of the
I’ve decided to move my humble blog to a new habitat. Why? Well mostly because this whole wool business just keeps getting more and more interesting to me. I want to spend more time with it. I want to learn more, share more, ask more questions. Especially when it comes to this particular little scandinavian […]