EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 It has already been almost two months since I finished a tucked shirt for myself. This shirt is giving me continuous headaches. But from the beginning: I am a fan of the small, subtle patterns you can create with the simplest punchcards. I like the bird’s eye in particular….
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 After six years, the pattern for my “One Skein Cheshire Cat Shawl” has undergone a revision! You can now find additional written instructions next to the chart. Also, there are now two versions of the pattern that provide two different ways of creating the slipped stitch (half milano) edge….
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 During March, the Machine Knit Community (MKC) hosted a “Dice Roll Sweater KAL.” The goal of the KAL was to knit a simple drop-shoulder sweater with an all-over pattern. The design of the sweater was decided by chance. At the beginning of the KAL, several topics and matching pictures…
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 In spring and summer evenings, I often want to throw something on with short sleeves but have never found anything that really fits my needs. All the body warmers, slipovers, or vests are closed at the front and often have no sleeves at all. I wanted something like a…
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Just a mini-mini update that I am still alive. I got a new machine in January. I got my first Silver Reed, the LK150. This is what is known as a mid-gauge machine with a needle spacing of approximately 6.5 mm, which lays it between a standard machine (4.5…
I often struggle with stuck yarn when I’m using very fine yarn. The thin threads slide into the narrow tip of the triangular yarn guide and get stuck and in the worst case rip. I tried to use tape or a piece of paper to block the tip but most often whatever I used fell…
Article has been updated; jump to Update. Intro I decided to try printing a cone winder when I more or less stumbled upon a 3D model for the “Cone Winder for CSM” from Yarnico on MakerWorld. I only have a normal yarn winder for hand knitting, and the balls I can create with it are okay. But…
Since I was not very constisten in writing any knitting news during the last year, I decided to at least give a quick overview of finished items: 2025 (sorted by topic and not chronological) First, I finished the Birchcliff Cardigan in addition to the Birchcliff Vest that I started at the end of 2024 and…
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 The Winter Dew shawl is an effortless yet classic and timeless design. Ribbed edges add just a hint of texture. The shawl is easy to combine and to wear. Add a tassel for an extra eye catcher. Skills needed: Casting on; binding off; increasing, decreasing and reforming a stitch;…
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Not quite a scarf, not quite a shawl, it is just a simple little knitting thing in-between the two that can be easily knitted from one to infinite skeins of yarn.Let the yarn shine with simple stocking stitch and dare to show off the “wrong side” too! Skills needed:…
