When I saw that chokers were suddenly making a resurgence, I swore I would never ever wear one; however, just like my relationship with high waisted jeans and gothic plum lipstick, a couple months later I jumped right on the bandwagon and never looked back. Having said that, I didn’t really want to spend money on such a […]

  I love scrap yarn projects; they feel incredibly productive (no yarn wasted here!) and they tend to make you think outside of the box. For this hat, I started off with some leftover Brooklyn Tweed Loft yarn and Purl Soho’s Color Dipped Hat pattern. To make my hat with the colour quantities I had […]

Well, after many months (basically since my last post) and a very busy wedding photography season, my Ivar cardigan is finally complete! This is another gorgeous pattern from Brooklyn Tweed (find it here!) and was knit using their Loft yarn in “Nest”. Luckily I was able to finish it before a quick trip to Japan, so […]

Now that it’s spring and warm enough to wear shorts, I’m finally starting to finish my winter knitting! Clearly I’ve got great timing… This big, cozy sweater was knit using Robin, a pattern by Josée Paquin. Since I wanted something that I could laze around the house in on rainy Vancouver afternoons, I purposefully knit it […]

There’s something extraordinarily demotivating about an endless sea of stockinette; perhaps that’s why it took me over a year to finish this blanket wrap thing. It probably didn’t help that, for a very large chuck of the year, it’s far too warm to wear wool in Hong Kong. Despite these odds, however, I persevered and […]