Snow in summer

The second skiing sweater was finished just in time for the anticipated mountain trip; the twins were very convinced that both of them needed their new woollen sweater for the mountain hikes! And they were right; the weather was of the (typically!) highly variable kind; sunny – cloudy – rainy – and even snowy! And…

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When on an island…

…and you have brought a big- sweater-knitting-project but find out that the needles for the sleeves are left behind…, then what do you do?!?! Well, as I knit this sweater top-down with a raglan-like increase (the same way as the previous; Skiing in June), I decided to try something I have not done before. I…

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Mosaic knitting

I have been very fascinated by mosaic knitting – the technique where you knit with one color at the time but you lift stitches so it almost looks like it is a stranded type of knitting. If you at the same time purl (or knit back-and-forth), a three-dimensional effect is created. There are so many…

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