As long as I can remember, I have wanted to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum, specifically their Textiles Collection. I have been lucky to have traveled quite a bit in the last ten years, and spent a semester in Florence in college, but somehow London has never been on that list. That is all going…
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Courtney at Vogue Knitting Live: San Francisco!
UPDATE! You can sign up for classes at 50% off using my teacher discount code, TEACHER50 at checkout! View all the VK Live SF class offerings here. This September I’ll be travelling to San Francisco to teach at VK Live! I’ll be teaching my favorite classes, alongside some of the best knitting instructors in the…
Andorra Collection: Patsy Bohus Hat
If you know me at all, you know that I have a deep love for the Bohus Stickning Cooperative. What is Bohus Stickning? Well, I’m glad you asked. You can read all about it on a previous blog post, or listen to this interview I did with Very Pink Knits, or go buy this fabulous…
A Brief History of the Bohus Stickning Cooperative
The Swedish workshop founded by Emma Jacobsson with humble beginnings as the Bohuslän Domestic Industry became the Bohus Stickning cooperative in 1939. Best known for its beautiful hand knitted items known for their attention to detail, innovative design and color, and exacting standards of craftsmanship, the cooperative was active through 1969 and continues to be…
Year of Mittens: May Mittens
The May mittens have arrived, and so has warmer weather and the start of gardening season! The inspiration for this pair hails from Sweden’s Bohuslan region, where it is still a chilly 42 degrees fahrenheit today. The little spots of color and the texture of the purls are reminiscent of the hyacinths and daffodils that…
Kelbourne Woolens at VK Live in NYC!
Next month I’ll be headed up to New York for Vogue Knitting Live, and I couldn’t be more excited about this little mini-getaway. I’ll be teaching my favorite class, Bohus Knitting, on Saturday January 14 – the best day of the year. It’s my birthday! Bohus knitting is essentially your run-of-the-mill stranded color work, but…
Nordic Knitting Conference
Courtney and I spent last weekend at the Nordic Knitting Conference held at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle. We planned the trip with friends Jaime Jennings and Karen Templer, and scheduled our time around learning as much as humanly possible about the history, craft traditions, and techniques of the (widely disparate) people who fall…
Kelbourne Woolens at VK Live Minneapolis!
This November, I will be headed to Minneapolis to teach three classes at Vogue Knitting Live! I’ll be flying solo on this trip, as Kate stays home to hold down the fort at one of our busiest times of year. I’ll be teaching some of our all time favorite classes, and they are all color…
Vogue Winter 2015/2016: Fitted Hat
I was recently asked to design a project for the Bohus inspired story in the newest Vogue Knitting magazine, and immediately thought of creating a hat out of four shades of The Fibre Co. Cumbria Fingering. Unlike the angora-heavy yarns of traditional Bohus, the Cumbria Fingering has a very subtle halo from the mohair, making…