JMW Turner’s paintings of sunsets are beautiful, and their stunning colours might very well reflect the effects of volcanic activity, according to Smithsonian Magazine. While the background colours differ from one painting to another, as the sun sets over land or water, rosy apricots, yellows, and creamy whites feature in almost all his sunset landscapes. […]
Every once in a while you come across a photo in your life that just needs to be featured in a big way on your wall of your home. My husband and I went on a canoe trip once to Kilvert Lake, Ontario. This was one of those trips where our child was with the […]
I may be stretching the idea of landscape, but I did have fun planning my socks for this issue. Landscaping is defined as improving a plot of ground. I decided to improve the landscape of my knitting by trying techniques new to me. My favourite landscape would always be floral and now that I do […]
It’s the fine details that really enhance the look of our finished knits. Carefully crafted seams, evenly picked-up stitches around necklines, and even a cast on that make stitches appear to start from thin air take our hand knits from craft to finely crafted. Edge treatments, or selvedges, are another way to kick our knitting […]
Knit a cowl to say “Thank you” to someone who has made your life better—the neighbourhood teen who shovels your driveway, the healthcare worker who administered your COVID vaccine, the grandchild who always makes you smile. You can knit the entire cowl in the Farrow Rib stitch or personalize your expression of gratitude with a […]
The words on my socks, Be Nice, Be Kind are blurry because of the self-striping yarn I used for contrast. I almost re-knit them but then realized that because 2020 was a big blur, the look is appropriate. The design on the legs is meant to represent the ups and downs of the year and […]
This project involves colour- stranding. It is worked in the round and features an alphabet of words naming many kinds of fibre. This pattern could be adapted to make a knitting bag too. Use a larger needle, I suggest a 2.75mm to make the bag roomier. Line it with muslin and make a longer draw […]
One of the things I love best about knitting is the creative opportunities that we have with every single project. Variations can be small, or they can be big. We can switch out the colour or the texture of the yarn and make a pattern our own. If a pattern has a cable we don’t […]
This sweater is designed to have a stack of different-sized blocks trail up the left side of the front, but you can run one up the sleeve(s) instead. To do this, add a column of stitches on the right of the chart. Center the 25 sts on the sleeve and place stitch markers for reference. […]
Pops of colour in knitting can only mean one thing – bobbles. I made Bali Pops with randomly placed bobbles using yarn that reminded me of the batik fabrics I used for patchwork quilting. In the second pair, Raspberry Seeds Socks, the bobbles are sedately lined and down the fronts and backs and the colour […]