Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episodes” please do so, and then join in on the journey. Designing is often one step forward and three steps back. I don’t let that get to me. On the opposite, I think that’s an important part of my design-process. It’s …
Continue reading LAMMAS/the August collection: The Difficulties
Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episodes” please do so, and then join in on the journey. Now when I have started I can tell you about how MasGULin knits up and feels. It’s so difficult to show the right colour. The camera wants so make it …
Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episodes” please do so, and then join in on the journey. Now it’s time to start this project for real. I have the yarn. I have the inspiration. Just let the creativity flow! Or, is it really that easy? How do …
Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episodes” please do so, and then join in on the journey. John Bauer is known for his beautiful, and evocative, fairy tale illustrations. Best known is the tale of the princess Tuvstarr and Skutt the Moose. The Moose takes the princess …
Continue reading LAMMAS/the August collection: The Inspiration
Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episode” please do so, and then join in on the journey. In this blogpost I have received the yarn and will try to explain how it looks, feels, smells, sounds and tastes. The blogpost for the yellow MasGULin is already published, …
Welcome to my mini-series of LAMMAS/the August collection. If you haven’t read the first “episode” please do so, and then join in on the journey. In this blogpost I have received the yarn and will try to explain how it looks, feels, smells, sounds and tastes. Since I don’t have the intention to use the …
For all of you that have been following me it doesn’t come as a surprise that I mostly knit and design in Nutiden yarn. Many of you have probably knitted my Kura socks or Hwila mittens. I have been a patreon to Höner & Eir for many years, before Nutiden got known and popular in …
Before you continue reading I just want you to know that I’m not accusing anyone of copying my designs, nor anyone else’s, nor his or her own’s. I don’t want to “step on anyone’s toes”. We all makes our own decisions. I’m not after causing a “rage or alarm” among knitters and designers, but rather …
When designing LAGOM I was thinking about how I could make it longer to also cover the shoulders, but I didn’t have the time to take that thought further until now. While LAGOM is designed to keep your neck warm, the purpose of OPTIMAL is to warm your shoulders, upper arms, back and chest, and …
Spring is coming and you want to walk barefoot and put your fingers in the soil to ground yourself. It’s midsummer night and you want to dance in the meadows. Fall is on the way, but you want to catch the last rays of warming sun. But when living in Sweden these situations often means …
MISS EVIL KNITS 