We were immediately drawn to her gusto and her passion for knitting! We’re speaking of Emma Fassio, a dynamic and outgoing knitter/designer. Besides knitting, she also loves sewing and making things in general, blending the three cultures she grew up in, that is the Italian, Swedish and American cultures. Her children are the primary [...]
There are organizations which can convert a hobby into an ethical and social effort. From among these, we would like to draw the attention of all the knitters who are reading this to the “Do you want to make a pretty knickknack” initiative which is being promoted by Parent Project (an association founded by parents [...]
The collections of Mimì la Rue, a Rome-based brand founded by art director Ilaria Mariaelena La Marca, are a perfect blend of elegance and originality. Designed for modern women who wish to creatively enhance their femininity, the garments of Mimì la Rue are perfectly suited to anyone who wants to make bold as they range [...]
As soon as we met, we fell in love with them… they are a lively Urban Knitting group with headquarters in Vienna and – incidentally – named Knit Vienna. Their goal is to turn knitting into a phenomenon of social protest and a way to re-appropriate the areas which make up the “urban furniture”. After [...]
Like every other year, June is the WWKIpd month. What is WWKIpd? It’s the World Wide Knit in Public Day. An international event dedicated to all knitting enthusiasts. An unmissable event for knitters who want to meet and knit together. The only requirement for participating is that one must be in a public place, where [...]
From our knitter’s perspective we view everything around us with great curiosity, particularly anything to do with yarns, knitting and the like. For this very reason, when we had the opportunity to get to know Nicoletta Morozzi (co-founder of Do you knit yourself and a teacher at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan) [...]
It’s only a short step from knitting enthusiast to seasoned “cool hunter” for Pitti Filati. At least it was for us. We found ourselves walking around the Florentine fair and in the blink of an eye we were veritable “cool hunters” attracted by the spring/ summer previews. The result? We took a lot of photos, [...]
Take the yarn, touch them, choose them, pet them: these gestures are part of the everyday knitters life. It’s like a massage, relaxing and distracting. It’s perfect for everyone, adults and children. Age doesn’t make any difference. When knitting and crochet come into play, sometimes you have to keep the children away. Once you start [...]
Well, we got to say it…knitting world is full of quite complicated words. Like, for example, this famous Levenwick…What? Il looks like the designer Emma Fessio is a great Levenwick lover and she suggests a model available – as usual – on Ravelry. Well, you could moreover discover something about the so-called top-down… Oh, you [...]
Last night, right in the middle of a horror cineforum, we thought about the question of the year: who made Nightmare’s sweater? The answer is Judy Graham, a woman who has been knitting all her life (she’s still actually knitting). This led her to work with many celebrities on a lot of sets. Among them, [...]