Emily Wessel

About Emily Wessel

Hi! I’m Emily Wessel, I design fun-to-knit patterns, and develop our knitting pattern app. I live on Vancouver Island, Canada, with my husband and two kids, where I like to run, knit, learn languages, and hang out with friends. I am co-founder and designer at Tin Can Knits - www.tincanknits.com

Posts by Emily Wessel:

Lace Gloves – WIP (work in progress)

I have cast on and started knitting the lace fingerless gloves that I have been designing with the midnight pacific merino lace yarn which I hand dyed.

New Olds : creative destruction

A successful thrift store visit has made my stash 3 sweaters and one hand-knit scarf richer!

Molten : preparing the yarn

These are the yarns which I’ve hand-dyed for a project I am calling Molten.

The hunt for the elusive Teal : part I

lovely skein of merino lace-weight [slated to become lacy gloves] has undertaken a long journey, and arrived, slightly felted, MILES past the brilliant jewel-tone teal that was to be its destination.

lace gloves : design stage

With a stitch dictionary and a sketch I am ready to start designing some gloves!

Red and Orange

Time for some colour tests. Today is red and orange.