Mekoome

Do you have some yarn that's a bit too scratchy or too synthetic for a sweater? Here's an idea for putting it to good use—crochet a bag!

I originally wanted to knit this project, but the fabric turned out too stretchy. I want the bag to hold its shape, so I decided to crochet it instead.

I'm making myself a crochet project bag. I want it to be fairly shallow, with sturdy handles and a wide base.

I'm using a simple stitch pattern, so it's the perfect relaxing project. There's no need to keep checking a chart, and I can easily put it down to help my child or pick it up and crochet a couple of rows whenever I have a few spare minutes.

What do you usually make with yarn that's been sitting in your stash for ages?



Simple stitch

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💃 party!

Rainy day and my recent WIP .
I was refining the shoulder line and now I am finally happy with it!

Yarn: Kidsilk Haze by Rowan Yarns held double.

Rainy, overcast summer days seem to call for softer shades.

This is the "sister" of my sweater — the first garment I ever knitted using fine silk mohair as the main yarn.
It's more of a blouse than a sweater: lightweight, with a regular fit, designed to be worn on its own or as a first layer.
For this project, I was inspired by Julia Wilkens's Julia Wilkens Lazytarsia technique. The main mohair strand is carried together with some color sections. Because the mohair is so fine, the color blocks remain beautifully crisp while gaining a soft, subtle melange effect. An added bonus is that you don't need a separate main-color yarn for every section.

Like many of my favorite projects, this one was knitted last summer completely in freestyle — no charts, no pattern, just following the process.
Maybe one day it will become a pattern too.

My off-grid holiday project.

This summer I really wanted to knit something in cotton. When the weather is hot, it's simply the perfect yarn to have on the needles.

I couldn't decide between continuing my shell idea or exploring the snake motif, so I chose the snake — one continuous knitted ribbon.

My initial idea was to create a self-organizing structure, letting the fabric find its own shape. But cotton is much softer and more fluid than wool, so the ribbon didn't hold its form the way I had imagined.

To give it more structure, I crocheted a mesh edge around the ribbon — a kind of structural frame.

The plan is to connect the ribbon into a lightweight beach top, with the mesh becoming transparent construction panels between the knitted sections.

I've taken countless photos throughout the process. At the moment, I'm pinning the ribbon onto a T-shirt just to study how it wants to sit on the body.

Not every experiment goes exactly as planned. At one point I joined the ribbon into one continuous loop, but it made the construction much harder to control, so I opened it up again.

A mannequin would have made this much easier, but mine is waiting for me back in my city studio.

For this experiment I used beautiful cotton yarn Summerlite 4ply kindly gifted by Rowan Yarns

Summer is in full swing, but I still couldn't resist striking a pose in my new cardi.

While it's a little too warm for daytime wear, it's absolutely perfect to throw on during cool evenings in the mountains or by the sea.

And when it comes to color, the only thing better than color is even more color!
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