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Lujanta: a sweater from Italian mountains

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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”, […]

Travelling to the origins with Emma Fassio

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Italian designer Emma Fassio recently undertook a short trip to Sweden where her moter was born, and this shawl is what she came back with: a delicious, geometric shawl that blends a more traditional elongate triangular shape with a striped effect produced by the use of short rows. Deceptively linear, the shawl is worked fully […]

Wool and angora also for summer

Aranami Shawl

At Lanecardate HandKnitting we take great pride in our lofty, warm yarns made with all 100% natural, ethically sourced animal fibers. This means that most of your yarns are warm or even hot, perfect for the coldest winter days. But at least one of your yarns is also perfect for summer. We are not talking […]

The Five Towers, a new pattern in Lamora

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If you are looking for something quick and sweet to knit this week-end we suggest you get a couple of balls of our lovely Lamora and give a try to Valentina Cosciani‘s new hat for men and women The five towers, enterely done in the round and with a simple knit and purl motif. This […]