Curious about Pitti Filati and Lanecardate Handknitting? Lolo Wang, a NABA student who shortly will receive her master degree and undoubtedly a rising star in the creative textile world, will present at Pitti Filati her first capsule collection, completely realized with Lanecardate yarns. Her collection is funny and playful: she turned each of our yarns […]
Stitch patterns can’t get much easier than seed stitch: knit one stitch and purl one stitch over an odd number of stitches. Yet this grainy, textured stitch has lots of proprieties: it’s reversible, lies flat and doesn’t curl and therefore it’s a perfect stitch for a scarf. Especially for a beginner’s scarf, since this stitch […]
Today, we are presenting you our retailer in Milan, in via Canonica. They are Do-Knit, and they just revamped their website! When did you open your Do-Knit shop? 3 young businesswomen from the design and fashion worlds started DO-KNIT in 2012, to knit high-quality accessories and garments. We were looking for an up-to-date, special style. […]
Sometimes we want just a functional basic crochet, the one that does its job. Sometimew we want something beautiful, especially when we are working with a luxury yarn. If you need some recommendations, here’s a small list of precious crochet hooks! The Knitting Glass Guy hooks are not made of glass, but of pyrex. If you […]
If you are new to knitting in the round, you will love this easy-peasy cowl in seed stitch. Just cast-on with a thick needle the required number of stitches and start working one knitted stitch and one purled stitch. The stitches will pile one over the other in a cantilevered way that will produce this […]
Lane Cardate Handknitting and the editors of the blog wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. This first year of our activity as a blog has been exciting and filled with patterns and ideas to use our yarns, now we take a few days off for celebrating the season with our families […]
If you have fallen in love with our Lace yarn, you may want to find new ways to use it at its best. So, why not knitting some Shetland lace with it? Elizabeth Lovick’s Magic of Shetland Lace Knitting is an excelent journey through the techniques and tricks of Shetland lace. Despite the intricate look […]
Christmas is coming and you’re planning your new year’s resolutions, but we planned them months in advance and now we are already busy with our next appearance at Pitti Filati! From January 28 to 30, we will be at the international exhibition for “yarn professionals”. It’s not our first time and the planning runs smoothly, […]
We are very pleasured to add to our retailers list Unfilodi, one of Italy’s most prestigious yarn shops. Unfilodi has an exceptional array of italian and international yarns, the product of painstaking researches done by the owner Maria Luisa. Unfilodi is located in Carate Brianza, just a short car ride from Milano, in a lovely […]
Campanellino in Italian means “little bell”, but it’s also Tinkerbell’s Italian name. Come think of it, there may be no nicer name for this tiny newborn pixie hat knitted in extrasoft SoCashmere yarn, our chunky pure cashmere. SoCashmere with its superthick plushy consistency will nicely surround and cushon your baby’s head. The hat is topped […]
