The Bigger (Simple) Thing
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The Bigger (Simple) Thing

🇬🇧 Quick update about “The Simple Thing” Shawl. I knitted a second one with two strands of yarn held together! This one is knitted from one skein of sports weight white-speckled Merino yarn and some lace weight silk-suri-alpaca-blend. It measures 190 x 35 cm. The pattern can be adapted to various sizes, yarn weight, color…

My favorite free pattern
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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…

Cheshire Cat Shawl
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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…

Fingering Yarn Cozy
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Fingering Yarn Cozy

🇬🇧 The “Fingering Yarn Cozy” is a small knitted pouch that holds a caked skein of yarn of fingering / sock weight so that it cannot unwind by itself. If the caked yarn is used up from the middle, the Yarn Cozy holds the ball together until the end. The Yarn Cozy is knitted like…