It’s February and it’s cold. The holidays are over and now we are looking down the road to spring. I find myself daydreaming of green at this time each year. When it’s this cold and grey outside, I go through three variations on my green dream theme: travel to sunny, lush, exotic places; gardening; and museum – hopping….
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Working From Charts: Colorwork
Part 2 of 4: Working from Charts: Stranded Colorwork Knitting. While most stranded knitting these days is referred to as “Fair Isle” knitting, this is actually a misnomer, as Fair Isle knitting is a very specific type of stranded colorwork originating from the island of Fair Isle. For more information on the terminology regarding the…
Fair Isle Style: Fara Raglan + Scandi Sukkalegs
If you’ve been paying any sort of attention, you know we love colowork. A bunch of our designs: Colette, Rukkilill Mitts, Gretel, Jackson, Winnipeg, Sylvie + many of the projects in Vintage Modern Knits (just to name a few!) feature color in one way or another. As a result, when we were approached by colorwork knitter extraordinaire,…