Make a little something with leftover yarn and a hook. Use your hands to feel better. At least it helps me! Try my flower brooch! It’s an introduction to layered flowers if you have never made them, and in any case, it’s a quick little project that can make you smile. Also, there is a […]
Stripes by EclatDuSoleil: Colour Beams
As we’ve already seen, EclatDuSoleil/Hélène Marcy loves stripes and plays with them in her designs. Today I’d like to spotlight the shawl Colour Beams, a design where she took on a technical challenge: how can you produce vertical stripes when crocheting horizontally? Hélène’s solution to the problem became the pattern for Colour Beams. Using only […]
Stripes by EclatDuSoleil: A Striped Life
It’s not only in her latest pattern Blue Song that EclatDuSoleil/Hélène Marcy plays with crochet stripes! In the pattern A Striped Life, Hélène plays with narrow stripes on three versions of a shawl with different borders. To create one-row stripes without cutting the yarn each time, Hélène explains her method in the pattern. I provide […]
Kits for the Blue Song shawl
I have several kits in store for you, to make a two-colour version of the beautiful Blue Song shawl, designed by EclatDuSoleil! In Beth Chatto and Covent Garden : You can complement the delicately nuanced freesia (Beth Chatto) either with the elegant grey Romeo (Covent Garden) … … or with the warm brown Othello (Covent […]
Inspiration for Guinguette
Part of my inspiration for my new knitted shawl design Guinguette came from this book by Ingrid Fetell Lee: Joyful – The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. The idea of the author, backed by her thorough investigations is that some things are universally joyful! Among these things are vivid colours and […]
Anna Bauer, a Swedish textile artist
Have you already seen the textile work of Swedish artist Anna Bauer? Anna often uses knitting in her work and gives a large place to the type of free stranded knitting Scandinavians call “hönsestrikk” (the name itself is a mix of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). In “hönsestrikk” you work with bands of freely chosen motifs, […]