Tag: Britta

  • Britta’s Cowl

    When my sister saw my cowl, she asked me if I would knit her a cowl like mine if she bought the yarn. I love knitting with baby alpaca so I was all over that offer, but the more we talked about what she wanted, the more I realized that drapey alpaca lace was not…

  • Britta’s Bow Beret

    I took my sister to the yarn store to buy yarn for me to knit her a cowl with and we ended up with yarn for two hats. This one is just a basic beret that imitates a two textured red one that I had made with mohair and merino. This one is Cascade 220…

  • Tacky Holiday Sweaters

    My neighbor always has a Christmas party and she has the sort of friends that go crazy over stuffed Santas and light up snowman figurines. They’re delightfully tacky. My sister and I always plan on buying tacky holiday sweaters for my neighbor’s party but we always forget. This year we remembered but we couldn’t find…

  • Blue Flowers

    About a year ago my sister bought me two skeins of yarn to make her hats with. I told her I’d make one right away and the other, well it might take until August because I was working on a sweater. It actually took me until October to do it. Oops. I waited until now…