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New Design: Roland

dieuwke Tuesday, 10 May, 2016

I know I’m not very good at keeping the blog updated lately. But I’ve been busy – designing stuff for you guys! Today I published “New Design: Roland”

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Design Process #4: Knitting…

dieuwke Tuesday, 5 January, 2016

Step 4 of designing in this series is just knitting. Knitting, adjusting my draft pattern, adjusting numbers if necessary. Trying the sweater on now and “Design Process #4: Knitting…”

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Design Process #3: Casting On

dieuwke Wednesday, 23 September, 2015

Swatch and calculations done, I’m finally ready to start knitting. This is my favorite part! I usually write the pattern alongside the knitting of my “Design Process #3: Casting On”

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New Design: Little Sowa

dieuwke Wednesday, 23 September, 2015

After a lot of requests and comments on my Sowa top from the Impulsive Knits collection, I decided to make a kids’ version of the pattern “New Design: Little Sowa”

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Design Process #2: Calculating

dieuwke Wednesday, 16 September, 2015

Having done my gauge swatch, it’s time to do some calculations. For the calculating, I use Excel spreadsheets. I could of course calculate everything by hand “Design Process #2: Calculating”

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Design Process #1: Planning

dieuwke Thursday, 10 September, 2015

For a long time, I have been wanting to share the process I (usually) go through when designing something. I say “usually”, as it can “Design Process #1: Planning”

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New Design: The Road I Took

dieuwke Tuesday, 1 September, 2015

My newest shawl pattern just went live! “The Road I Took” is a collaboration with Rainbow Heirloom, to go with their Nostalgia yarn club. The “New Design: The Road I Took”

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New Design: Trillidium

dieuwke Tuesday, 25 August, 2015

My newest shawl is something I have been working on for a looooong time – especially since that lace-y border just didn’t want to work “New Design: Trillidium”

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Feather & Fan-tastic – explanations on sizing

dieuwke Thursday, 12 March, 2015

When I published the Feather & Fan-tastic pattern, I chose to make it available in 3 sizes that I called S, M and L. However, these “Feather & Fan-tastic – explanations on sizing”

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New Design: Feather & Fan-tastic

dieuwke Thursday, 12 March, 2015

In October last year, I watched an episode of season 5 of Downton Abbey in which Lady Edith was wearing a sweater which I immediately “New Design: Feather & Fan-tastic”

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