tutorials

Circular Cast-on

Hiya! This is another tutorial I first published in Japanese and translate into English.

Today, I’m going to show you Emily Ocker’s circular cast-on. This method is suitable for circular projects starting with a few stitches, such as circular shawls or top-down hats.
All you need is your working yarn and a crochet hook, ideally with no ergonomic grip (you will see why).
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designs & making-of

Fukinsei – My Zen garden shawl

The time has come for me to talk about this design.

Fukinsei – My Zen garden – shawl is my first-ever (and last !?) commissioned design. After Treasure knitting, a book on Nepal and Mongolia including 5 designs from Eri Shimizu, Nomad noos decided to make a more Japanese book, with the theme wabisabi and I was asked if I wanted to take part into it, not only as a technical editor but also as a designer.
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designs

La Provence sweater

Hi guys!
I have published a pattern of the sweater knitted with a yarn I wrote an article about.

As I wrote in that post, the design of the sweater started because of the pink chinos I bought impulsively.
I had been looking for slub cotton yarn but my sesarch on the Internet was not very fructous… But I came accross a silk-linen-wool blend yarn in a La Droguerie’s store in my city: the yarn was called Provençale.
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