a collection of patterns where knitting is a place of coincidental events, and four cowls take the chance to become random acts of knitting.

menaide: a small scale driftnet historically used by the Italian

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Combining a luscious mohair with a single ply merino this hat gets an ethereal effect while ensuring the desired lightness for the double layered “petals”.

Inspired again by the world of millinery this slightly asymmetrical cloche features a bottom-up construction and a simplified method to produce strategic double layered fabric. The welts are placed along two slanted elliptical orbits giving both shape and structure to the hat: in the lower edge the double layer of the welt ensures the necessary...

the chance collection

the chance collection

the chance collection

the chance collection

the name of this wrap started as a crasis between challenge and shawl - only after I discovered that “chal” is the Spanish name for… “shawl”!

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The Q. stands for Queneau, Raymond Queneau, the french ingenious writer whose most intriguing work is definitely Exercises de Style, the narration of a banal fact in ninety-nine different ways, all significant and different from each other, to tell, and thus interpret, an episode that we are invited to see from different points of view.

This design is a knitting attempt to compose a deep duality in a sideways, elongated and asymmetrical shawl which features two different yarns, similar rib stitch patterns with unlike texture, straight and slanting sections, different edge and bind off treatments. Balancing the dual while preserving individuality is a rare miracle in life, but ...

Inspired by some quirky millinery hats from the 50s, Plump is half envelope hat and half beret, and wants to be scrunched, slumped and shaken to be worn as preferred!

To make a long story short: this hat is the answer to a very specific request and, at the same time, a knitted way to dispel a legend - my omen to see the rain falling down inside the Pantheon (full story inside!).

a flattering, a-line sweater with an asymmetrical look emphasized by a slanted neckline and a lateral panel knitted with a lighter yarn.

(…) You encounter increasingly isolated primes, lost in that silent, measured space made only of numbers, and you become aware of the distressing sense that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, when you no longer have any desire to go on counting...

a basic comfortable shrug, with subtle but clever shaping to avoid too much bulkiness, and different textures. with an unusual construction the final garment results as an asymmetrical seamless piece, worked both flat and in the round and with a shaped collar.

not a proper pattern but rather the working board of a knitting experiment: an elongated stitch knitted and manipulated in various ways to obtain different fabrics for a cowl (or a scarf, if knitted flat).