Happy New Year 2024!

Hello everyone! Well wishes to you as we enter 2024! I’m kicking off this new year of Savannah Rose Handmade with this “updates” blog. My intentions are to post here before, during, and after each of my collections, to better share my progress along the way. Whether it’s turnaround time updates, new ideas, hiccups I’ve come across, or to share what I’m knitting up at the moment, I want this to be a check-in space if you’re ever wondering what I’m up to…without needing to receive too many emails from me in the meantime. :)

With this new year, comes new knitting techniques! 🫶 My Suspiria Double Feature Collection is a little over a week away from launching, and I’m knitting my first pair of socks with two of the colorways from this collection! These slippers, per-say, are the “Gr8 Gingham Slippers” by Jessie Maed and I honestly feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life for this slipper pattern to come out in order for me to feel the fervor to finally try knitting socks. Love!

Besides these being my first pair of socks, this is my first time doing color work, too! Let me just say, I have YouTube to thank for a lot of the new techniques I’ve learned. Here are a few videos that really helped me:

Catching Floats in Stranded Knitting
Knitting a Swatch in the Round
Two-Color Stranded Knitting on Circular Needles
How to Work an Afterthought Heel

Let’s hope I can finish at least one of these slippers by my collection drop Friday January 12. ;)

If you’re wondering what the two colorways in this photo are, stay tuned for that. I’ll be officially starting to reveal the colorways via my Instagram starting Friday January 5th!

Well, that’s all for now from me. 📝 Thanks so much for reading. If you don’t have Instagram, I’ll officially share all the colorways of my Suspiria Double Feature Collection in my next blog post, that I’ll share next week.
Until then, take care!
Love, Savannah Rose

• Wondering What I Mean By Suspiria "Double Feature" Collection?

  My upcoming collection is inspired by both the original 1977 “Suspiria” and the 2018 version, too! Hence, double feature. 😉

  A little synopsis: ”Suspiria” is set in 1977 and follows the story of Susanna (Susie) Bannion as she ventures from her homestead in Ohio to Berlin to join the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Studio. As Susie soon moves her way up to lead dancer, her fellow friends in the company begin finding evidence that the dance studio’s directors are practicing witchcraft.

  This suspicion deepens after one of the dancers goes missing and another one mysteriously, emotionally breaks down during one of the dance practices.

  Depending on which film version you watch, these witchcraft accusations affect Susie in very different ways…

  Meanwhile, the psychotherapist of the missing dancer decides to investigate the company, and together him and another member of the troupe uncover chilling and sinister secrets as they learn the truth of what lies below in the chambers of the Helena Markos Dance Academy.

  While the overarching story is quite the same between the original and the remake, the ending and the color schemes are where the main differences are between these two versions. 😯