Bougainville is a versatile scarf/shawl pattern that you can easily knit at any gauge and any size, using the yarn that suits you best! In fact, I knit the prototype in a sport-weight cotton yarn and I’ll be knitting my second shawl along with you in a lighter and larger version, using the lace/fingering weight …
Tag: artisan yarn
Dare Yourself – the details
The marriage of colors is a daring challenge, as every marriage is (or should be). Now you may get an idea on how wonderfully intriguing and daringly challenging it has been for me to put together these 10 apparently incompatible colorways, in order to create this “daring” shawl. Well, you know me, I love a …

C’m on,Dare Yourself!
Stay tuned for more! The fun has just begun!

They may be tiny, but they are sooo great!
You know how it is...too many projects running, a test-knitting for the new pattern and already designing the next one, classes and research for future projects, housework and helping my 10+ year-old with the homework...pretty hectic, ha? Well, I can't complain... But then, I decided to go for a small "something for me" activity, a …
denmoma – the interview
Hi, Denae, so nice to have you here with us! Let us know more about you and your life, will you? I've been knitting since Christmas of 2007 when I had the notion to ask for a kit as a gift. I am mostly self taught but got help starting out from my mother in …

Let’s take a closer look at the person with the “crazy” nickname, shall we?
Guess what ...she doesn't sound that crazy after all, ha?

Question: how do you say “crazy” in Greek?
...or why I'm happy to work with Lise Condis...
Cyclades Knitting Kit is launched during the Swiss Wulle Festival on Saturday!
Perhaps you're wondering what's in that bag? Well, watch the video and find out!
There are no words…
...to express my gratitude to my Ravelry friends who have been standing by me for a whole year, ever since I created my Designer's Group. Testing and tech-editing, knitting my new patterns and creating some really beautiful knits out of them, caring about what's happening here, in Greece, and supporting me in times of joy …