Yeaters

For #socktober I wanted to knit a pair of short row socks - with a similar toe construction to the Tipsy Toe Socks , but with a bit more of a short row pattern for the main part. At first I wasn't quite sure about the effect I wanted to achieve. That's why I tr…

Time spent on public transport - especially over longer distances - can be quality knitting time. But when you knit on a train you need a knitting project that is suitable for the environment. For me, a suitable project usually has to fulfil the following criteria: onl…

Bella Paquita is a beautiful free sweater pattern by Marnie MacLean - available via Ravelry or directly on her website . I discovered it in my early Ravelry days (in 2011) and wanted to knit it right then, even though I wasn't a good knitter back then and lacked s…

When I entered the sock KAL in the Facebook-Group "Die drei vom Blog - Knit Along"  I thought long and hard about what to knit. As a rule I prefer not to use patterns, but to knit something I made up myself. Plus I wanted to do something new. I.e. I wanted to…

I haven't posted much lately ... this is partly due to the fact that I have started a new job (in real life and totally unrelated to knitting), but partly my own fault ... Even though I have knitted a lot in the last few weeks (see pictures below), I haven't fe…