Am I the only person who finds it almost impossible to throw out little itty bitty leftover scrap balls of yarn? They pile up in bags and hide in corners and until a clean up is required. So I consolidate
It seems as though most of the world's knitters are well into autumn and thinking wintery thoughts. It's a little strange for those of us in the south where the days are getting longer and warmer. But I'm happy to think
This is my first attempt at both knitting and designing a jersey (you might say “sweater”). So I wanted something really simple, hence the Easy Peasy Pullover. I was inspired by a pattern in Trui magazine and my initial idea was
On my way back from exhibiting at Maison&Objet in Paris I spent a few days in Budapest. The show experience is always intense and demanding physically, mentally and energetically. So my Budapest trip was a wonderful chance to wind down,
Many of our hand knitting patterns are inspired by our ready-to-wear product range, and this is one of them. I love to experiment with texture and colour. Elmarie made this one up in Emerald to show the textures of our
The studio has been insanely busy for the last few weeks (months actually!). Last week we shipped 40kg of wool to Japan, and we have 100kg getting ready to go to Germany. Growth is a wonderful thing but it's not
We recently made up a custom order snood in handspun. It needed to be a quick and easy knit, and the customer wanted it quite plain. It turned out beautifully, and with the weather quite chilly here in Cape Town
With a bunch of beginners coming for a crochet class we were thinking of easy ideas for what to do with just the basics. My standard solution is always to let the wool do the work. So Francine worked up
This is a quick and easy knit for when the days and nights are getting chilly, or haven't quite warmed up yet. Our Merino Handspun is a lovely yarn to knit with, and has just enough thick and thin texture