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Punch card letter E design
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Since I liked the design for the letter K for the Building Blocks KnitAlong (BBKAL) of the Machine Knit Community (MKC) a lot and I had made an extra punch card for the background of the letter, I wanted to make a second letter square like that. I designed a Fair Isle letter E…
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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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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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Cheshire Cat Shawl
🇬🇧 Everyone knows it, everyone has it – this one beautiful, hand dyed skein of yarn. It varies in colors, it has speckles or both, it waits for that one, special project, which somehow doesn’t come. This yarn is just too special to fit into larger projects. It has too many variations in itself, so that any structural or contrasting…
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Spiral Yarn Cozy
🇬🇧 I did it again! I knitted a second yarn pouch / yarn cozy and published the pattern in German and English on Ravelry. In this version the simple design of the first yarn cozy is replaced by a chic, continuous spiral pattern. Due to the spiral pattern the Yarn Cozy is flexible and can be stretched to pull it…
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Fingering Yarn Cozy
🇬🇧 I had to do a quick and easy project for my yarn. Even if I use a project bag, all my caked yarn is flying around and unwinding every now and then. Therefore, a yarn cozy comes in handy. The “Fingering Yarn Cozy” is a small knitted pouch that holds a caked skein of yarn of fingering / sock…
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Waves of Summer
🇬🇧 Today is equinox, summer is leaving, autumn is coming. The best moment to capture the summer a little bit more and publish my first pattern for the “Waves of Summer” shawl. The shawl is light and therefore perfectly suited for the transition period. Knitted with mohair it turns into a faithful companion even for the more uncomfortable autumn days.…
