…my previous post and I don’t know how many of you, knitters and friends out there, are still interested in reading my posts. It’s totally my fault, of course, as I have been hibernating for quite some time, but it certainly wasn’t intentional on my part. I will tell you all about it in a while.

In August, right after presenting The Peace Trilogy, my pattern Iria Beach Socks came up and I am so happy with this pair of socks as this is probably the best sock yarn I have ever used and certainly a luxury for the feet (yes, cashmere and silk are the best combo you can think of against your skin)

[ yarn by Le Tinte del Boscso]

A month or so later, I released The Energy Flow Cowl, a very easy, beginner-friendly pattern for an “Infinity Cowl”. The hand-dyed gradient yarn by Le Tinte del Bosco and the transition from one colorway to the other inspired both the stitch patterns I used as well as the name of the cowl. I tried to make the best of the wonderful yarn, as I started working from the outside of the yarn cake and, from time to time I used the other end of the thread (coming from the center of the cake) so that I could create some fun stripes. The cowl is worked flat, with an i-cord on each side of the knit and then, the 2 ends are grafted with a 3-needles BO.

Then, in early Fall, 2019, I had a really stupid accident resulting in a very badly sprained ankle that held me hostage in my bed for two whole months. Friends who know me well will understand what I mean when I say that during that time I really didn’t feel like knitting at all; I guess I was too depressed to do so although I did force myself to think positively and try to get better as soon as possible. I still didn’t feel like creating any new pattern, I just managed to finish the prototype of a shawl I had already designed and tested and so I managed to put it up on Ravelry just before the winter holidays in 2019. Hug 2020is a shawl I made to welcome 2020 with the best of intentions and I was so happy to see it in the #1 place of the HOT RIGHT NOW patterns on Ravelry for a few days!

[ yarn by Le Tinte del Boscso]

Are you still with me after this long, long post? Well, if you are, I promise I will tell you all about the “knitting on the side” and the “thinking time” I treated myself with, in my next post. You see, after struggling with the impotence and frustration caused by realising I wasn’t able to do things as rapidly and efficiently as I used to, I made up my mind: I gave myself some space to think and feel and think and heal and be a slow knitter for a change! That is a whole new chapter and it will be coming to you next week! Until then, be well and keep on knitting!