Here’s the latest interview to our Lanecardate Handknitting Italian (and, very soon, European) retailers. This time, we had a lovely chat with Lorenza, owner of Il Filarino, the brand new shop (and e-shop) in Bologna. When did you start your business? In September 2013, we started as a blog, then we became an e-shop and now […]
Winter has come. We want cosy, warm accessories, and we want them now! Enters Feltro , that is not a Shakespearean Italian character but our bulky 75% wool, 25% (cruelty free) angora yarn; these fibers, combined, make Feltro soft, slightly hairy and pleasantly materic. Feltro is sold in 100 grams/90 meters balls and it is […]
So cashmere is great for knitting cowls, being so warm and bulky, you can complete a cowl in one evening with 8 mm needles. To knit a So cashmere cowl, you need to know how to cast on, bind off, knit and purl, but nothing more. You will need one ball and a half of […]
Feltro is one of our bulky yarns made of superifne wool and angora(25%). Thanks to the angora fibers, the yarn looks and feels fluffy, but you won’t get hair on your clothes and face, since Feltro is, for the 75%, made of superfine wool. If you want to try our Feltro but don’t feel like […]
Feltro, our bulky 75% wool, 25% angora yarn, is so warm and soft on the skin, it’s perfect for children accessories. That’s why we created this 2 colours hat pattern for 12 months old children. You will need only 50 grams of Feltro to make a hat, so you will be able to knit many […]
Here’s the second interview to our retailers. This time, we had a nice chat with Cinzia, owner of the Difilato e-shop. When did you start your business? It’s Difilato first birthday this month! I started the business in October, 2013. I am a hard core crafter and it was so difficult to find yarns and […]
Today we start a new feature in our blog: we are going to interview our retailers, both brich and mortar store and e-shop owners, so you will be able to know, personally, who is choosing for you our Lanecardate Handknitting yarns. Let’s start with Heidi, owner of the Fiordilana store (Via F. Confalonieri 83, Villasanta, […]
Snoods appeared one day in the knittingverse and it looks like they’re here to stay. They’re perfect if you can’t stand scarf ends going here and there and being bulky under our coat. Feltro snood is made with 3 skeins of our Feltro. It has a 70 cm circumference, but you can make it longer […]
Valentina Cosciani, the emerging independent Italian designer, fell in love with our cachemire and created the pattern Lujanta for our Luxor yarn. Lujanta is an oversize sweater in 7 sizes (from XS to 3X), sporting a deep V neck. The construction is top-down and seamless. Lujanta comes from the newest Valentina Cosciani collection “Monti Pallidi”, […]
We know… it’s summer, the weather is warm and we don’t feel much like wool right now. But if our holidays will bring us on a lake, or in the North, or somewhere on a mountain, we will bring with us a woolen lace shawl for the evening, or we will bring some Lamora Lace […]
