Knitting inspiration and pattern collections
Inspirations and pattern collections
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One Skein (Beginners) Ideas
🇬🇧 Sometimes you see that one shawl or cardigan and you decide you’d like to start knitting. But sometimes it’s the other way around. Maybe you just want to start knitting. Maybe because knitting is having a revival, maybe because it’s supposed to be comforting, maybe because your best friend knits and you’ve become curious. As a motivated knitting beginner,…
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Winding Yarn Samples
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Last year I took part in a yarn winding workshop by Wallace Sewell Design Studio. Wallace Sewell designs (woven) fabrics with asymmetrical blocks and stripes in different sizes. To try out the interaction of colors and size of elements, they wrap yarns carefully and straight around a solid base. The stripes vary in width.…
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(Holiday) Gift pattern ideas
EN | DE | NL 🇬🇧 One more week and then the Advent season begins. Time to think about what to give your loved ones for Christmas (or Sinterklaas / St. Nicholas). Time to share a few ideas for knitted gifts that can be done relatively quickly from relatively little yarn. Socks and Slippers Socks are an evergreen when it…
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5 days – 5 shawls 2022
🇬🇧 Since it wasn’t on Instagram this year, I missed the 5 shawls in 5 days challenge 2022. I wrote about that challenge last year already. You can find the details here. The weather outside is still a bit moody. Therefore I decided that it’s not too late to still do my own 5 mini swatches in 5 days. After I…
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Socks, Socken, Sokken
🇬🇧 It’s October, which is fondly called Socktober among knitters. I’m not sure who exactly used the term for the first time. In the meantime, Socktober is internationally known and October has been declared THE sock month. For this reason, I would like to collect and share a few links, leading to pages where you can find several patterns on…
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5 days – 5 shawls 2021
🇬🇧 Françoise from Aroha Knits is every now and then hosting the 5 shawls in 5 days challenge. Françoise is a knitwear designer and design coach living in Texas having Franco-Māori American Australian roots. Independent of the challenge, I would always recommend to check out her page Aroha Knits. The goal of the challenge is to try out and understand…
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My favorite free pattern
🇬🇧 In general, I think it’s absolutely fair to ask for payment for a knitting or crochet pattern. Actually, there is always a lot of work and time involved in creating patterns. Of course, you can argue that most patterns “only” reuse certain basic patterns and therefore payment is not justified, because someone else has already discovered the pattern in…
