Sootangos

04/16/2024

Mignonne shawl.

Subtle textures and gentle ruffle in a classic triangular shape, in small or large size.

Pattern is available in French 🇫🇷 & English 🇬🇧.
Two colours of Le Petit Lambswool,
Yarn kit is also available from .

04/11/2024

Meanwhile cardigan — need to adjust some minor details, now finishing the sleeve. I tried not to touch the colours too much as it’s captured the rustic character of this marled look.
Some minor adjustments in the works, plus finishing the other sleeve with slightly different shaping before it can be finalized.

Yarns are Retrosaria Pomar Mungo from + Purl Soho Sweetgrass Fine from . I have previously used Mungo (50/50 recycled wool and cotton) for a pullover and liked it, but wanted to get a slightly thicker fabric by adding a lace weight yarn. Using the alpaca/cotton/wool blend Sweetgrass Fine was a perfect way to do it, complementing the cotton and marled look of Mungo. I am very happy with the combination. I will report back how the design holds up through wear.

The idea was to get a spring to early fall cardigan, but most likely it will be ready for release in the middle of the summer 😂 I suck at these timelines, hoping to get better at it — but I want to leave ample time for finessing to the best I can, wearing it to test out how it feels worn and how it lasts, and for testing. So this is not a coming very soon project, but who knows, by the time it is published I may well have made a winter sample as well 😅😆.

I truly am enjoying the process though and in many ways this series of designs has been a life saver for me. Stay tuned, or sign up for my email newsletter, since apparently it’s currently social media pandemic 😷 (I notice it much less since such a small account, but I believe it coming from many fellow makers..!).

As always, happy knitting! I hope spring is turning out to be a good, creative season for you.

sootangos from Toronto

04/05/2024

Fuzzy soft flowers petals and shadows
Trying on for adjusting!

Vest energy is strong, but while waiting for the colour samples i began a cardigan and have nearly finished it. Ran out of yarn for sleeve so back to the vest!

Meanwhile the colour samples have arrived and they are so beautiful and varied — I can definitely see a long sleeved pullover also.

This alpaca cotton is very interesting — very soft and cozy with structured core, and rustic stitches with very elegant halo. There is an additional tonal dimension happening that is less visible in the white and more noticeable in some of the more colourful versions — I’ll make swatches soon.

I am enjoying very much the process of studying and practicing different shaping and silhouettes. Always a slow process but worth it.

03/05/2024

12/02/2023

On my needles right now..! Snow on the ground today, feeling like it’s a match ❤️

08/17/2023

• expression, inner connection, exploration, discovery •
Expression allows me to be present the most and therefore I need it to ground myself and to breathe oxygen back in.
So easy to forget.

An alive moment in front of one of Frank O’Hara’s apartments in New York, and a love poem from a friend, to a friend.

Some things are cherished so preciously that one dare not recreate or rekindle. I hope to be able to begin anew and reconnect one day soon. Much love and gratitude always. Fear sometimes wins but not for good.

“I wouldn’t want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days”

I miss you, friend, and thank you.

06/24/2023

• s u m m e r m o o d •
Cool living room, couch, gently shaded from the golden sun. Softness, cool, and textured, a little respite from the harshness of the sunlight — half-shaded and comfortable, rested.

GEO tee is also coming in Danish & French in just a couple of days —

Pattern: GEO tee arn: Albertine via
Photo:
#編み物

06/03/2023

• Lavenders for Veronica •
A cherished gift to a loved one or for yourself — a graceful, lightweight neck and shoulder warmer for cool mornings and summer evenings.
A special stash-buster and a beauty waiting to be made in your hands, especially for lovers of shawls, lace knitting, and textured knits.

Kindly share so more people can learn about it while 2 days remain for introductory sale discount!
Pattern link is in bio ⬆️

05/30/2023

• LFV is live! •
My latest pattern, Lavenders for Veronica ( ), is now live on ravelry, etsy, and my website!

Lavenders for Veronica, inspired as a gift for a special person in my life, is an elegant stole with a stunning lace panel and a collar.

Worked from side to side, symmetrical garter stitch wings with a bud-detailed border flank a gorgeous bouquet-like center panel, featuring a Japanese lace stitch pattern resembling petals, leaves, and pistils, perfect for showcasing a special skein of yarn. A beautiful irregular rib collar adds extra comfort and ease of wear.

I used a combination of gorgeous colourways, Hydrangée & Après la pluie from , in the Leizu Fi*****ng and Anatolia bases held together for the lace panel, flanked by Latte in Journey Sport. You can use a single strand of sport to DK weight yarn, or have fun combining colours by holding a strand each of fi*****ng and lace weight yarns together.

Each section is customizable to maximize available yarn!

For those looking to make a memorable gift for oneself or a loved one, or those wishing to indulge in the joy of slightly advanced lace techniques, it is an ideal project.

Introductory 10% discount is applied automatically until June 5. (If you are subscribed to my newsletter, you get an additional -5% off : )) Link is in my bio, or you can visit linktr.ee/sootangos

05/25/2023

• Portrait in time — portrait of memories •
Sometimes I wonder, why do we paint? Why do we want to listen to a song, feel urged to journal or make a post?

When I was little, I used to sit down at my desk at the end of the day everyday with a piece of music on, and just listen to the music and let the memories of the day emerge to the fore of my mind. I wouldn’t normally have a particular theme or topic, but sitting there and letting myself be in to the space the music created, I would feel like putting my pencil down to the notebook at some point.

This was the case for me with this project, Lavenders for Veronica. I had picked up a couple skeins of yarn from a boutique sale, in a kaleidoscope of colours that sounded like music. It was too special for me to use in just any project, and once I sat with it in my hands, just touching it, I let my eyes and mind wander.

Eventually I wanted to create something vivid and textural, something that could show off the many dimensions to the colours it contained. I remembered back in Korea, when I was about 11, walking through a lilac cove on my school campus with my mother. Then about fifteen years after that, going out to a European ‘village’ here in Toronto with my parents on Mother’s Day, with my mom in a beautiful beige skirt suit with a pot of purple flowers in her hands that my father and I had gotten her.

They are beautiful memories, and I will never forget the smell, the summer sun shining through the vines leaving bright light particles between the filigree of leafy shadows. The happy bustle of a Sunday afternoon in the village, flower stands, fruits and people under the awnings. Gentle clinks of silverware mixed into happy murmurs of people in restaurants with the fronts opened. How we could just exist in that moment, in our environment, happy to be experiencing something outside of us, together.

These are some of the memories that the colours conjure up for me. I have not been able to gift it to the muse but that’s ok — I think of it more as a portrait of us, of my memory of her.

Lavenders for Veronica arrives this weekend to you. 🪻💜💙🎶