I have a deep love for single yarns and speckled yarn. Why? Oh, I’m glad you asked! To keep things sweet and short, I’m mesmerised by it.
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Tisserin Coquet
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One of the best part of being a designer is seeing YOU knitting the patterns I designed. Here are a few example to inspire you the next time you’ll be in search of a sock pattern.
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This new shawl was an asymmetrical triangular shawl design, with lace on the inside and a huge garter stitch border in a contrasting colour. Well, it turns out that this shawl was not meant to be. As beautiful as it could be, I did not felt it was right with this yarn.
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Evolving from a little spring sprout to full-grown foliage over the knitting, the Jeune Pousse shawl will wrap you and keep you warm and cosy throughout the cold winter months and allow you to bloom again when the Spring comes back.
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Blue has grown on me lately. I’m getting to some point where I really like pastel blues, turquoises, or even blue mints. And it does pair beautifully with one of my favourite colours, coral!
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Don’t you love to cast-on new projects? When working on a new design, starting to knit the sample is far from being the first step of it. It’s both a rewards for all the work which have already been done and an exciting moment.
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Garter stitch is basic, but garter stitch is epic. With its bumpy texture, it allows to mix the colours and showcase every shades of a yarn. Dont’t you love a good garter stitch ocean ?
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For this particular project, I wanted an overall cohesive look. But it gets difficult to achieve when you have to match both seven colours together with high contrast colourwork requirements! So I opted for the safe bet with pink-red-orange shades. Building a colour palette tips and tricks.
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I’m happy to report that my block is gone, like far far away. Sometimes you have to think a bit out of the box to be able to find your mojo back. So what about the “kind of” statement? I have a left wrist tendinitis. If you want to avoid my mistakes, I’ve listed some things you (and I!) should pay attention to.
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With the new season comes the new Spring Box at Le Chat qui Tricote ! This time we partnered to create a sock box! Yes, you read that right, it’s a special sock box! And obviously I’m in love!
Brioche knitting allow us to add some vertical stripes in our knits, something which is not so easy to implement otherwise. Near the end of this shawl I felt the need to balance all this vertically with horizontal stripes. Because what’s better than stripes ? More stripes!
One of the things I learnt over the years, is that a good scale is an essential tool for knitters. Even more if you’re a knitting designer or pattern tester!
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