While ago I was trying to figure out how to play with short rows and recreate in crochet some of the classic knitted sweaters. I got many remarks from people who knit, why I am trying to make crochet look like knitting and don’t simply knit. Well, I could knit too, but not all of us can also knit. And maybe if you are only crocheting you will like to know how to make a sweater that looks like knit. I also know, that are so many crochet designers that are focused only on finding and designing clothes that look knit, and I don’t want to do that. It was…

I started the Nuage Sweater a long time ago and I finally managed to finish this pattern and share it with you. The idea of this sweater came from last year when I made the Cookie Cardigan using the same stitch pattern! I was thinking that working only on the right side, being a design in the round will be easier. And I was right! The only thing that I had to test was the hook size and yarn because I wanted big stitches. I started the first sample using leftover yarn and everything was going as I wanted except one thing: I wanted the sweater to be lighter. So,…

 I can not tell you how much I love this job! How amazing is to let your mind explore the creativity inside and get out from there some amazing things. The Pane Sweater that I am about to share with you the pattern today, was born of nothing. No idea of a design, not even the urge to design something new, or to start something new. It simply happened. One weekend, when I planned to have some time with my daughter it happened that she had a friend over. My husband was doing some work in the backyard and I had a few hours for myself. I couldn’t work on…