ASPLUND KNITS

Almost to my surprise I finally finished my "Donegal" sweater, an Alice Starmore design . My Ravelry project page tells me I cast ...

but the second mouse gets the cheese." I read this hilarious addition to the proverb recently - perhaps it's commonplace and I simp...

There's a new Norwegian book about twined knitting - I heard about it recently (thanks, Heidi!) and sent for it straight away, of cours...

Today my friend Andrew gave me a charming tatting book from 1944 - there are many beautiful patterns in it, so I feel like getting my sh...

Yes, I know we're in June, but I realise this is my first blog post this year. Not that I've been hibernating, but I've mostly b...

Mosaic knitting has given me ideas - I've been experimenting with hats knitted sideways, combining mosaic knitting and garter stitch. No...

It took some thinking and rethinking (not to mention knitting and reknitting) before I made up my mind about the sleeves. I decided pa...

At long last I'm working on a mosaic knitting project. I've been interested in using the technique beyond swatches for quite a few y...

The cardigan I wrote about in my previous post is finished. I liked the wool a lot, Yaku from CaMaRose . It was sligthly worrying when I was...

Earlier this week I suddenly had to drop all my works in progress and get some new wool. A friend of mine wrote to tell me he and his wife a...

A few days a week I work in a yarn store - today a customer surprised me by handing me a crossword featuring a photo from one of my workshop...

Where did September go? In my case mainly workshops! Not only the workshops themselves, but also planning them. For example, even though st...

My feet never felt better than after an opportunity to "tread wool" at Skansen this afternoon. Fulling is the correct word in Engl...

What better way to spend a sunny Thursday off work than a daytrip to an island in the archipelago with Born to knit ? The tricky question wa...

One of the first Marianne Isager designs I knitted was the "Fingers" sweaters almost 20 years ago. (Ravelry link here .) At the ti...