The Sleeves Make the Sweater
One of the most overlooked things about the earliest sweaters I made was the sleeves.
Now, I have always been in search of the perfect sweater, and even as a beginner, I was no different. I was constantly tinking and frogging and making adjustments until I got things just right, because it seemed like a waste to knit something I wasn't going to wear.
The issue was, I didn't really know what I ...
Rainforest Knits
Every year, when it starts feeling a little more like Spring, this is the collection I think about.
Rainforest Knits came out in 2019, not long after Katie (my sister and co-founder of Pin & Pin) had moved to Hawai‘i. We realized we were both living in rainforests at the time, hers tropical and mine temperate, and that became the initial inspiration for this collection.
But what really shape...
Why I'm Knitting a Sweater at the Wrong Gauge
A few weeks ago, I cast on a new sweater project, the Rosie Sweater by Le Knit.
This one!
For this sweater, I'm using a gorgeous wool from Ancient Arts Fibres held with a strand of mohair from Knitting with Olive (my first time knitting a sweater with mohair, can you believe it?!).
And before I cast on, I swatched. I made two swatches, actually, one with the colourwork and one without, ...
