I’ve been on a bit of a sock kick lately, and have been putting my stash of Scheepjes Invicta Extra and Invicta Colour to good use. My favourite so far are these striped socks! If you can knit socks this is super easy. Not a pattern as such, as we all have our preferred method for knitting socks, but I …
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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a sample shawl for Scheepjeswol’s yarn kit for Kika (a children’s Cancer charity) that they released last week. It’s a kit that includes a knitting and crochet pattern using the Invicta Colour and Invicta Extra yarns, which are current favorites of mine, and the yarns I’ve used for my Dreambird shawls. …
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As of this morning my Dreambird is officially finished. Well, almost… it’s all over but the drying. I had to put off blocking it a little longer than I expected as we had people over and a lack of space to spread it out, but today I finally got it out on the blocking mats! I was totally over the …
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Have you ever had a project in mind but were just waiting for the perfect yarn to jump out at you? If so, then you will understand my recent experience with the Dreambird pattern on Ravelry. I first saw it ages ago but just wasn’t sure what colors I wanted to do it in, what yarn was going to work …
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