Tag Archives | sweaters

Chocolate Cake Sweater

By on February 5, 2013 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Finally, I’ve made something that counts as cake! (Remember this post? This has got to be one of my most linked-to posts ever! Cake and frosting, you guys liked this description, and why not, it sounds delicious…) Today we have the Chocolate Cake Sweater. Because this piece is Cake in its best form. Practical, wearable, [...]

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Gilded Lauriel

By on December 10, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

This is quite possibly the most beautiful and complicated thing I’ve knit so far! Lauriel is the pattern, the yarn is Madelinetosh DK in ‘Gilded.’ (Ravelry notes here.) It’s a gorgeously bright and sunny yellow! I am drawn to happy colours, and this is definitely a happy colour in my book. (Totally my colour, I [...]

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Pink Pullover, or Sometimes You Don’t Know Until You Wear It…

By on April 30, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Hey, another sweater! This is my first sweater with more to it than just miles and miles of basic stockinette (plain knitting) stitches. This is also the last of the knitting project updates for a while. We’ll be back to sewing content very soon! The pattern is Petra, by Quince and Co. Quince and Co [...]

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Starry Night Sweater

By on April 27, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Is it summer yet, where you live? Here it’s starting to slowly get warmer, but the wool sweaters aren’t packed away quite yet. Good thing, as I just finished knitting a cosy wool pullover with a huge collar! I’ve called it the Starry Night Sweater because it sounds pretty. (Much better than the ‘oh crap, [...]

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Red St. James

By on April 24, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

So nice, I made it twice! This is the second sweater I’ve knit, and I’m happy that it gets easier when you make the same pattern a second time. The first time took me about four months – blogged here, My First Sweater! – and the second time it took me closer to a month. [...]

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My Sweater is on a Knitting Blog

By on January 11, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Hey everyone! Guess what? My turquoise sweater (my first sweater!) was featured on the Tanis Fiber Arts blog! Tanis Fiber Arts is the brand of yarn I used to make my first sweater. It’s hand-dyed by a woman in Montreal named Tanis. Which I quite liked when I learned that fact, I like the idea [...]

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