The Elusive & Rhythmic Click-Clack

For me knitting is a conduit for creativity. A timeless twist, it is all about amusing oneself and others, who appreciate this craft with reckless intemperance.

In my leisure time all that I can hear are my needles clicking and feel the yarn gliding through my fingers. The one thing I love about knitting  is that I can always remember the events that occurred in my life while I was making it. Those special occasions, drives, efforts, determinations, the curiosity in my son’s eyes each time I take the needle and a lot more.

Knitting creates a Launchpad for my day. There’s a lesson to be found in this wonderful experience, because when you cast on and proceed to work a pattern again, it's more challenging and the unfolding of new patterns is never ending.

I   picked up my first pair of knitting needles when I was 8, from my mother and hasn’t looked back since. It was a memorable moment when I knitted my first Doily, handling all the five needles together and it was perfect.  When I rediscovered knitting, I use it as a much-needed escape from my  hectic life. It has been now a continuous journey, trying to self-learn more difficult patterns, the different types of knitting stitches and experimenting with them to create new patterns.

Knitting has been my passion throughout childhood, but only lately did I transition this passion into a business. Now I make sure that everything I do is underpinned by sustainability. I am in love with knitting and my needles will never stop clicking

I am discovering  vibrant communities both online and off. It is found that now the youth are also into knitting which was earlier associated to hobbies of the old. To encourage more of them, there should be platforms to celebrate innovative talents in knit design.

Happy Knitting 😊

Doily knitted with five dpn's

My next knitting project - Frosted Ferns Herbert Niebling knitted doily design

This will be my next knitting project.  It's Frosted Ferns Herbert Niebling knitted doily design. Breathtaking beauty that leaves me speechless :)

This pattern was published in Doilies 201 by the Spool Cotton Company in 1943. This doily also has a oval version which looks stunning.
It's has 121 rows with a mix of different stitches. I will be using the Red Heart cotton thread for knitting this doily.

Among the list of knitting authors and books that I have read Herbert Niebling belongs to a different class of knitting brilliance. With his patterns he makes a string of thread effortlessly dance into different and graceful floral patterns.

Whenever I look at the beautiful lace patterns I always wonder what were the thoughts flowing in his mind at that moment but I remember  reading that he began publishing lace patterns inspired by the flowers in his garden. He started knitting from leaflets and later he was the Grand Master of Lace Knitting.  This sounds interesting and innovative.

I yearn to understand lace half as well as he did. Hope this comes true one fine day :)

Stay tuned for the updates on Frosted Ferns :)

"AS THE COMPOSER WRITES DOWN THE NOTES THAT HE HEARS,  IN THE SAME WAY I WRITE DOWN THE STITCHES THAT I SEE"~~Herbert  Niebling.