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Take It All Shawl – Colour choice
It is the day two since I can actually sit and do anything else than dyeing and packaging yarn for the last two months! Not that I am complaining, but knitting peacefully at the end of the day while watching a favourite series was my way to relax and missed it a lot! I was …
Find Your Fade colour choice and combination
Part of my work is to advise and help people choose colour combinations for their projects with ARTFIL yarns. I had hundreds of discussions on how to chose colour combinations for shawls and wraps during our trunk shows and festivals. I have discussed as well colour selections for the popular Find your Fade shawl pattern …
How to block large knitted items
Blocking the knitted items is tedious, but necessary for our projects. Usually, my set of blocking mats is enough to accommodate most of the garments I knit. In fact, sometimes I want to occupy my entire dining room with it on purpose, but that is another story. However, this is not the case of my …
Can a colour be delicious?
Quebec and the entire Acadian territory is a place with many one-of-a-kinds characteristics and particular to the region charms. I love living here, surrounded by traditions keepers with open hearts and minds. It may sound contradiction, but here people managed to combine it in a unique way. If someone asks me for …
Colour blocks cropped sweater
The busiest month we ever had is gone and I finally found a time to write the pattern as promised. This simple sweater is knit with 3 skeins of our soft and squishy GRACE. It is written for size M only, but you can adapt it easy for your size by adding or omitting 10 …
Colours: get out of the box
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