Paper Tiger

knitting, baking, and reading in Norway

  • the vestigial tales

    It’s been a long time since I’ve had any illustration work to share here, but over the past few months I’ve had the incredibly fun job of illustrating the covers for the Vestigial Tales, a series of short stories by my childhood friend Laura Lam. The Tales are stories and novellas of varying lengths set within the fantasy world… Continue reading

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  • the evolution of a sweater

    I didn’t do a ton of knitting while I was in Norway, but a few days after I arrived I did cast on for a Svalbard, the ingenius cardigan pattern by Bristol Ivy from Wool People vol. 6. Norway felt like the right place to do it, because Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago, and I had decided to knit it… Continue reading

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  • norsk folkemuseum part 2: indoors

    I’ve been back from Norway for nearly two weeks and I’m finally settling in again and beginning to get back into a work flow. It’s so easy to forget how much of a buffer is sometimes needed between long travel and diving back into work. In any case, today I’m writing about the other half… Continue reading

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  • norsk folkemuseum part 1: the open-air museum

    I’ve been wanting to get to the Norsk Folkemuseum on Bygdøy all summer, and last week I finally made it! The official English name is the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, but for the sake of simplicity, I’m simply going to refer to it as the Folkemuseum. One of the perks of attending the International Summer School at… Continue reading

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  • linen & stripes

    I almost laughed out loud when Karen’s beautiful Togue stripes popped up in my blog reader today, because I finally have proper photos of my Vasa from the Vasalong. So I, too, am showcasing stripes in Quince & Co. linen. Here it is, folks: my finished Vasa, photographed and all! (Happily, that makes this the final Vasalong… Continue reading

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  • a visit to the voss folkemuseum

    On my trip to Voss last weekend we had a chance to visit the Voss Folkemuseum. While my trips to museums with groups are always shorter than they would be when I’m on my own (I spent so many hours at the National Museum of Iceland a few months back, which I am now realizing I never… Continue reading

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  • school, snow, and a vasa update (sort of)

    When I last posted two and a half weeks ago I had every intention of returning to more regular blog updates. While that obviously didn’t happen, I have been keeping busy. Not much of it directly pertains to Paper Tiger as a business, but I thought I might share some of it here all the same (Paper… Continue reading

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  • hello from norway

    Soon I’ll be sharing photos of a few of my favorite finished Vasas as promised, but I’ve been packing, traveling, and fighting off jetlag, so it’ll still be a few days, I’m afraid! I arrived in Oslo on Tuesday and I’m here for the summer, taking an intensive Norwegian language course at the International Summer… Continue reading

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  • vasalong: results & the winners!

    June 6th marked the last day and deadline for the Vasa KAL, so I gathered all the finished entries over the weekend, and today I randomly drew two winners! First, I drew for the two skeins of Road to China Light: congratulations, Tien! And then I drew for the issue of Extra Curricular: congratulations, Ines! I’ll be… Continue reading

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  • vasalong ends this friday!

    I can barely believe my eyes, but the calendar’s telling me it’s already June, which means that the Vasalong (the Vasa KAL) ends this Friday! That’s my own unfinished Vasa in Quince & Co. Sparrow pictured above – I’m sitting at around the 75% point, so I’ve got some knitting to do if I’m going… Continue reading

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