November Quickies Pattern: Welcome Home
It's the Season for quick, gift-knitting friendly patterns and today’s feature on the November Quickies pattern, Welcome Home, is a great choice for your gift knitting needs! Designed by Artesanitarium Designs, and worked in Mecha, this pattern creates the most perfect pair of house socks ever, destined to keep your feet warm and cozy. You will feel like you are walking on the softest of clouds!
Annina, the designer behind Artesanitarium Designs, has over 100 designs under her belt, and more are coming. She gets inspired by fantasy, sci-fi, architecture, and mythology. Her designs always have extra twist in them. She comes from the snowy parts of Northern Europe so most of her designs are for what some call “heavier yarn” but for her it’s just “yarn” and she wants to enable everyone to knit beautiful feminine things, regardless of the thickness of the yarn or needles.
She took the time to answer some questions about the Welcome Home Socks and her design process for us, and we are thrilled to share her talent with you!
1: What is your favorite part of your design and why?
The coziness, the soft yarn, and warm feet inside the boots. They will come in handy especially this winter when the energy is sparse.
2: What should knitters pay attention to when working this pattern? Do you have any tips or tricks that will make knitting this pattern easier?
The cable repeats and increases on the leg. It might be a good idea to have notes about the repeats.
3: Are there any applicable tutorials or videos relevant to your KAL design?
Figure-8 cast on method: https://youtu.be/QFFuVPBBKaM
4: Was there any particular inspiration you had when creating this piece?
Valkyries and their boots! The softness of the yarn definitely played a part in the idea of the design. I always love to work with cables and design the different “paths” for them.
5: What is something you wish people knew about you as a designer?
I was born in December of 1981, and I designed my first mittens when I was in preschool, first socks in my early teens and my first sweater at age 18. I come from a very crafty family, and I was exposed to yarn from a very early age by my paternal grandmother.
I fell in love with cables when I saw a fellow designer design a gorgeous, cabled hoodie. After that it was all cables, cables, cable! I’ve been called the Queen of Cables by some of my fellow designers and publishers.
I love to incorporate post-apocalyptic, heroine and steampunk vibes into my work. I am not a native English speaker so my writing can be a bit quirky from time to time.
6: Is there anything else you would like to share about your design, or about your design work?
I’m living a slow life after my social and professional burnout in early 2019. I have two office days in a week when I answer e-mails and tackle bigger designing projects and questions. Other days I drop in and out to Ravelry and other online platforms and answer quick e-mails and knit!
I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2014 and my hands don’t like to knit with small needles and thin yarn, so I design for thicker yarns and hope that there’s people like me out there who wants and needs thicker garments and accessories that are as beautiful as the ones knitted with thinner yarn.
Find the Welcome Home pattern here on Ravelry, https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/welcome-home-5, and check out more of Annina’s work here:
IG: Artesanitarium
Website: www.artesanitarium.com
Happy Knitting!