One of the things I love about my Bonhomie Wrap is its generous size … it really does feel like wrapping up in a great big woolly hug, something I know I’ll really appreciate as the weather turns cooler! But perhaps you have a perfect yarn for the pattern but not quite enough, or you just fancy something a bit smaller? If so, adjusting the size of the finished wrap is pretty straightforward!
Read moreHow do you keep track of your knitting?
I’m still happily knitting away on my Conviviality Cardigan, and it’s got me thinking about the art of pattern management. How do we keep track of our place in a pattern? And how do we manage when a pattern asks us to, gulp, do multiple thing at the same time?
Read moreReading Your Knitting: Right- and Left-Leaning Lace Diagonals
Learning new skills and techniques is always loads of fun — there’s nothing like mastering something new and realising a whole new world of knitting possibilities has just opened up to you. Harder to teach, but perhaps even more revolutionary, is to learn how to read your knitting and really understand what’s happening. In today’s tutorials, I show you how to keep track of your left- and right-leaning yarn over/decrease pairs.
Read moreSomething to Knit Together Pattern Drop: The Togetherness Shawl
Let me introduce you to the Togetherness Shawl, the fourth and final pattern from our Something to Knit Together eBook. Where has the time gone?!
Read moreKnitting up a storm ... together!
It’s hard to believe, but in just a few days the final Something to Knit Together pattern will be released! There’s been some skillful knitting on display in the knitalongs … let’s have a peek at some finished objects and works-in-progress!
Read moreI want to knit all the cardigans!
My Conviviality Cardigan from Something to Knit Together is well underway, and oh am I loving it. Cardigans do very heavy duty in my wardrobe, and I know I’m going to wear this one lots. And this particular cardigan has a few things going for it that make an extra pleasurable knit in my book.
Read moreHow I Strickplaner
The other day, I was listening to Episode 3 of the Uncut podcast which was all about finding time to craft. With limited free time and seemingly endless projects I want to tackle, this is something I think about a lot! My Strickplaner really helps me make the most of snippets of free time — today I’ll share a little bit about how I use it to organize my craft time and life more generally!
Read moreConviviality Cardigan — the penultimate Something to Knit Together design!
Ready to sink your teeth into the next Something to Knit Together project? Let me introduce you to the third pattern designed by Sarah Hatton for the Something to Knit Together eBook: the Conviviality Cardigan.
Read moreMDK Field Guide No. 15 Open – Available Now!
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the latest in Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne’s perennially popular Field Guide series — and now that it’s here, let me say, our impatience has been justified and rewarded. Field Guide No. 15 is called Open and is all about beautiful, modern lace, brought to you by knitting industry legend, Jeanette Sloan.
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!
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