Like many knitters, I’m fascinated by cables. I particularly like traditional aran sweater cables; the overall honeycomb cable that’s often worked into a wide centre panel on the front or back of the garment was my inspiration here. I wanted an oversized cardigan or coat, and thought that overall cables in a bulky yarn would [...]
Guys! It’s winter twist collective time, and Uji is in it. You’ll understand my great pride at having my design included when you see what a beautiful bunch of patterns Twist has put together for this issue. Instead of writing about the design, I’m going to tell you about the yarn in this post. It’s [...]
Here’s a new pattern. Last Christmas, I made a scarf for my Dad from a nice soft bulky weight yarn. I made it in a manly brown, and I made it reversible – including the cable. If you don’t know already, let me tell you that reversible cables are just as easy as the one-sided [...]
You guys. I’ve missed you. It’s been a busy four months, most of it not particularly pleasant or bloggable, but here are some highlights: I finished a new design and shipped off the sample for publication. It’s good and wintry and that’s all I can tell you until November. I took a photography course on [...]
It took a few months to get over the wonderful shock of having my first design for Twist Collective published. At Twist’s invitation, I’ve put together a bit of information on Eira‘s design inspiration and features. I woke up one morning, a week before the Twist Winter 2011 submission deadline, thinking I had to just [...]
There was a clothing store where I grew up called The Bum Wrap – it forever (mis)formed my understanding of the phrase ‘bum rap’. Anina and I have a mutual distrust of knitted skirts. It’s an unforgiving look, wrapping a big round bum (if that’s what you happen to have, like me) in stretchy fabric. [...]
I’m in twist collective! Even though it’s been in the works for months, I’m actually mostly speechless and have been staring at my monitor for going on 20 minutes, trying to figure out what to write. I mean, what can you say when you want to design knitwear and your pattern is picked up by [...]
So now we can finally catch up on stuff that it was killing me not to blog about on Anniesue. Not much to talk about on a knitting blog when you can’t talk about your knitting, right? But I knew the Caribou Knits website would be skinny on content at first, so I wanted everything [...]