Knitfluenced – Azucena Sweater. Ep. 3
Next Knitfluenced project is my first finished sweater ever (for me) and also my first KAL: Azucena by EweKnit Toronto. After buying a small quantity of merino for gloves, I felt comfortable…
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Knitfluenced – Gloves. Ep. 2
Me wanting to absolutely try merino yarn has been the result of binge watching knitting podcast, so I bought 3 skeins in This Is Knit, a lovely yarn shop in Dublin. But…
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Knitfluenced: Hexi Cardi. Ep. 1
Following a recent post in which I confessed how I was sucked in the world of yarnfluencers, I decided to start a series of posts where I write about a finished project…
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I’ve Been Knitfluenced!
It might have been mentioned several times in many posts on this blog, but I have been knitting since I was about 6 years old: I remember my mom getting me a…
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2023 Round Up
I started 2023 with some major existential crisis. In January, following the umpteenth layoff in tech, I set up an cross stitch pattern shop in an attempt to get an alternative source…
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Bedroom Makeover. Part 1. Painting
I’m back with a little update on my excruciatingly slow house glow-up: my bedroom. It did take two months to finish something that could have been done in a weekend, but I…
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Quick Craft: Cross Stitch Pin Cushion
I have a series of small cross stitches for a couple of patterns I created. Problem is I made them on scrap Aida, so there’s no extra fabric to frame them, and…
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Summertime
As we speed through another year among torrential rains and unearthly heat, I’ve been fairly proactive in all my hobbies (apart for writing as usual…). House Makeover My house has now lovely…
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First sale!
Exactly three months after opening the shop, I made the first sale! And the a couple of day later, the second one. And then that’s it 😅 But I’m confident I’ll get…
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Force Quit
We have a finish, sort of. Three years ago, temperature blankets were all the rage (in the knitting granny community at least), and I really wanted to make one, but since I…