To start a piece of knitting, you need a pattern to guide you. All LAS HIDALGAS kits include a booklet with the explanations you’ll need. They were developed step-by-step, and with a great deal of care, to anticipate (or at least try to anticipate) the different challenges that we know come up when you follow any knitting pattern. If you have any questions, you can get in touch with us at noelia@lashidalgas.com. We’ll be pleased to connect with you and help you.

If you don’t know how to knit, it’s essential to make sure you understand and practise a series of basic techniques, before you start on a project. You’ll need them to be able to understand the explanations in the pattern. LAS HIDALGAS has summarised the basics of knitting in a downloadable e-book. You can easily print it out at home, so you’ll always have it to hand, and be able to consult it when you need to.

Find the flock of little Spanish merino sheep in our KITS section, follow them and discover.

When you think about knitting by hand, using two knitting needles, the first image that comes to mind is an endearing little old lady, knitting in a comfortable armchair, with a basket of yarn at her feet. Fortunately, we’ve discovered that wool, like the moon, has two sides.

Wool is essentially a fine material, and this is never more true than when we’re talking about Spanish transhumant merino wool. If, besides this, it’s been produced using artisan processes, it conserves a traditional facet that can’t and shouldn’t be ignored.

Hand knitting is enjoying its finest moment. It’s shattering clichés, with colour and new textures. It embraces novelty, while reconciling the past and present, history and fashion.

One look at these photos dispels that lingering sense of nostalgia. They show how the world of knitting is reinventing itself and annihilating its own limits. It’s pushing every boundary, to include those who thought there was nothing new to hear.

For a conventional knitter, this may be the most exciting fashion editorial you’ve ever read. Perhaps here, in this destruction of stereotypes, is where the brutal beauty of knitting resides.

PHOTOGRAPHY : JULIA D VELÁZQUEZ