The Indie Designer Gift A Long is underway on Ravelry and you can follow along on Instagram, as well. This year I am highlighting some of the designers on my blog, as well as in my Instagram feed.

I have another French designer for you this week! Chloé of Tisserin Coquet is a new designer to me. Her patterns can be found on Ravelry and her own website.

Since she is new to me, I asked for her designer story. Almost all of us became designers because we couldn't find a pattern we needed, or wanted to change something on a pattern, or had an idea we just couldn't see in the patterns available to us. For Chloé, it was that she had a friend selling yarn. She had received a new colourway of Filcolana Arwetta and did not have any idea of how to showcase it for the biggest upcoming yarn fair of the year in France. Nothing she tried worked. Chloé suggested that she should make a sock with it, as it would be lovely paired with a plain light one and with a motif such a broken rib stitch. Her friend dared her to write it up and that’s how Premier Flocon (her first pattern) was born. She fell in love with pattern writing from this and hasn't stopped since then. She especially likes helping knitters realize that they can knit whatever they want and that the magic is in their hands. "They don’t have to be experts to try brioche, socks, lace, all the scary things. Exactly as the saying, if there is a will, there is a way and you just have to find the pattern/teacher/tutorial that speaks to your brain to help you learn the technique."

Chloé hails from Rhone-Alpes in France and I can't help but think that her beautiful environment must influence her designs. Her designs are mostly accessories like socks, mittens and mitts, shawls, cowls, and hats, but there are a few garments for adults and children, as well. Here are some of my favorites from her portfolio.

Aerial

Hanging Gardens

Première Neige

Not Bothered by the Cold

Houx

I encourage you to take a look at the rest of her portfolio. She is an intriguing designer to me, and takes a clear interest in the details of her designs. Those details distinguish her work and give them a depth that isn't always found in patterns.

Labels: Design, Giftalong, Homemaking, Knitting

// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 11:56 PM