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New pattern: Kiwi As Summer Socks

New pattern: Kiwi As Summer Socks

It’s been a while since my last pattern release so I am extra excited to share my new pattern with you! This one is an ode to my new home of choice, this beautiful place in the middle of the South Pacific, where summer lasts all year long, (sometimes even with snow and ice), penguins, dolphins and whales share your surf and where the sheep-to-human ratio is 5:1. Sweet as! Welcome to the Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa,…

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Tutorial: Ladderback Jacquard knitting in the round – your stretchy Fair Isle friend

Tutorial: Ladderback Jacquard knitting in the round – your stretchy Fair Isle friend

While testing for my new pattern Kiwi as! Summer Socks (coming soon!) I was looking for a better way to do Fair Isle in the round when you have to carry the contrasting yarn around a larger area without knitting it. I came across the Ladderback Jacquard method, which is so brilliantly easy that it is just perfect for me. I was always intimidated by colourwork. Whenever I tried to knit it in the round it was just not very…

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