We are so looking forward to diving into Something To Knit Together, Winter Edition with you in just over a week’s time, and we hope you are too! To whet your whistle while we wait (try saying that three times fast), today, we’re bringing you an interview with Something To Knit Together, Winter Edition designer Natalie Warner. Natalie was kind enough to answer some questions by email for me last week, and I really enjoyed hearing about her path into designing and her design process. You can catch up with Natalie on Instagram where she is natalieinstitches, on her website natalieinstitches.com, and see her designs on Ravelry.
Read moreA chat with Sarah Hatton
Sarah Hatton is the design whizz behind the Something to Knit Together collection. When we started our Something to Knit Together knitalong, lots of A-C Knitwear knitters went off to check how many of Sarah’s patterns were in their pattern libraries and found they had well over 100; to say Sarah is a prolific designer is a huge understatement! She has well over 1000 patterns on Ravelry, and her work has appeared in some of the most recognisable publications in the knitting biz, including the Knitter, Simply Knitting, Vogue Knitting and Knitty (and that’s just in the last year!) She was also a contributor to both A Year of Techniques and Boost Your Knitting! I’ve really enjoyed getting to hear more about her career and design process during the Something to Knit Together Zoom calls and am happy today to share a short chat with her for blog readers!
Read moreTechnique Talk with Julia Farwell-Clay
his month’s Boost Your Knitting designer is the supremely talented Julia Farwell-Clay, whose cleverly cute Heartgyle Socks have knitters around the world not only working intarsia, but doing it in the round! She loves a good sweater, but also has designed beautiful accessories — she’s partial to eye-catching designs and interesting techniques! She was kind enough to sit down and answer some questions about her design process and the role that new techniques play in it — and she’s got some good advice for us too!
Read moreA chat with Joji Locatelli
Monday brought the release of this month’s Boost Your Knitting pattern, the stellar Sterlyn Shawl, designed by the incomparable Joji Locatelli. This gorgeous shawl, knit in, well, scrumptious Scrumptious 4-ply, is the perfect canvas on which to practice April’s featured technique, fixing mistakes in your lace. I caught up with Joji the other day and really enjoyed hearing more about her thoughtful approach to the Boost Your Knitting brief. Read on for Joji’s tips on avoiding mistakes in lace, what she does when she makes them, and the technique she’d most like to conquer this year!
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