There’s a chill in the air that signals that bittersweet end to summer. Like most knitters, I love fall more than the other seasons combined. So here’s a knit that celebrates end-of-summer dress-wearing, when you might need something to keep you warm out on the patio, drink in hand, Christmas lights twinkling… This shrug has [...]
For a number of reasons, I’ve been away from the blog for the last few weeks. There have been some changes around here, to say the least. I: 1. Left my job – what I considered my first grownup, long-term job – at a landscape architecture office in Vancouver. It was just time. That’s not [...]
I’ve admired Habu yarns for a few years now. Habu, a Japanese company, makes possibly the most interesting yarns around: silk and stainless steel, linen ‘paper’, cotton, cashmere, and mohair…and in amazingly harmonious colours and neutrals. But I’ve never knit anything with it, maybe because it seems more art object than yarn. L. and I [...]