Tag: texture

Flourish 1, Flourish 2, and Flourish 2 and a Half

March 13, 2025

It was a beautiful sweater, knitted from an extraordinary chart made up of fairly simple components consisting of two different cable sequences, two different faggoting sequences, and two increase-decrease leaf shapes, reshuffling their order all over the length of the garment so that the lines of the designs went every which way. I showed the … More Flourish 1, Flourish 2, and Flourish 2 and a Half

January 2025 Swatchathon

February 28, 2025

January is my annual swatching season. I dedicate the entire month, and sometimes some of the previous and following months, to swatching projects I plan to knit and to learning new techniques in hand knitting, machine knitting, crochet, and other fiber media. This year I focused almost exclusively on hand-manipulated fabrics knitted on the LK150 … More January 2025 Swatchathon