Today is a really dreary, rainy day in Copenhagen, Denmark. It makes me want to knit with brightly colored yarns in order to get a “New Design: Classic Plaits”
Tag: knitwear design
New Design: At An Angle / På Kanten
At the end of May, I published a new shawl pattern: At An Angle. As so often before, my love for garter stitch overcame me, “New Design: At An Angle / På Kanten”
New Design: Roland
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”
Design Process #4: Knitting…
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…”
Design Process #3: Casting On
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”
New Design: Little Sowa
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”
Design Process #2: Calculating
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”
Design Process #1: Planning
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”
New designs: Impulsive Knits Collection
About a year ago, I met Justyna Lorkowska in person. She is an awesome knitwear designer, and I am a huge fan of hers. We “New designs: Impulsive Knits Collection”
Feather & Fan-tastic – explanations on sizing
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”