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Laura Chau

@cosmicpluto.bsky.social
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Knitting designer and editor in Toronto.

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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New knitting pattern coming soon!
Laura standing in front of a window, facing away. She’s wearing a green sweater with large sleeves, and jeans.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And the result…my prettiest loaf ever, I think!
Golden brown, super flaky layers of a loaf of croissant bread, still in its pan on a cooling rack.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Dale’s mopping while my croissant loaf rests. I’m crocheting on the couch. Happy Saturday!
Silicone baking mat on a light countertop, rolled out dough with a butter block in the centre.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Is it really “supporting local” if it’s a multinational chain with 2000+ locations?
City councillor Lily Cheng holding a to go cup, standing in front of a plywood storefront of Gong Cha tea shop.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New pattern day! Bostock Cardigan is seamless and top down, with waist shaping and a perpendicular brioche section with gores for flare. Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Laura is leaning against a panel window wearing a warm brown cardigan with the top 3 buttons closed. The bottom had of the cardigan has brioche ribs that travel horizontally. Side view of Bostock cardigan, Laura is facing away from a window and showing the side gore of the brioche section over a navy blue skirt.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
All fixed up! Why is getting up the energy to take photos the hardest part?
A brown cardigan on a wooden floor, with raglan shaping, long sleeves, and buttons. The bottom half of the sweater body is worked perpendicularly in brioche stitch.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Way expired puff pastry from the freezer, leftover peanut/coconut/sesame/sugar filling, homemade strawberry jam, cream cheese filling. Yum!
A sheet pan lined with parchment, with 6 finished rectangular pastries. Cream cheese is piped in squiggles on top and dusted with peanuts and sugar.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Parade of female cardinals…or a glitch in the matrix?
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’m in the mood to cook and bake, but we are rich in food and really don’t need it! Made a little upside down cake with leftover pineapple from making pizza.
A square cake on a white plate being he’d by a window. It’s golden and fluffy with pineapple pieces on top.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Dale gave me this locally-designed puzzle for Christmas, but the puzzle is clipped WAY inside the edges of the image. The CN tower is completely cut off! Apparently they didn’t realize until the finished puzzles came in, and still sold them for Xmas 😑 they’re sending a reprinted one in Feb.
A jigsaw puzzle on a grey felt background, overlaid with the puzzle box showing that the image is cut off on the actual puzzle.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I love making treats! From top: chocolate and vanilla marshmallows, pecan snowballs with 2 kinds of sugar, piped vanilla cookies, hazelnut chocolate chip meringues, coconut sticks, chocolate covered caramels and pecan caramels, Chex mix. More not pictured! 🤶
Top down view of containers of treats on a wooden coffee table.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Homemade pecan caramels for Christmas! This year I poured the caramel onto a bed of chopped pecans instead of pressing a pecan into each one. They actually look pretty good!
A wax paper lined sheet tray with a jumble of dark chocolate covered square candies. A cross section of a chocolate, with caramel and pecans.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I got some Tonka beans! What should I do with them?
Three dark, wrinkly beans on an outstretched hand. They’re about an inch long and half an inch wide. Holding up a jar labeled Tonka Beans
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Re-blocked the squares side with wires and pins, much happier with it. But then I realized the lining was too tight, so I ripped that out to knit again on larger needles 🙃
A knit piece made up of blue, lilac, silver and ochre squares, piled on top of a neutral quilt on the couch.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Made some middle of the week chocolate cake, because why not? Cocoa yogurt cake from Snacking Cakes, with a chocolate icing from Snacking Bakes! 😂
A slice of very dark chocolate cake on a white plate, a single layer with shiny chocolate glaze on top and down the side.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New pattern alert! Maxome Pullover is worked from the top down in seed stitch, with a split hem, long sleeves, and ribbed edges. Available on Ravelry and LoveCrafts!
Laura, a Chinese Canadian woman, wears a plum coloured seed stitch pullover. She’s standing by a chain link fence, looking down with her hand on her hip. Laura, a Chinese Canadian woman, wears a plum coloured seed stitch pullover. She’s standing by a chain link fence, looking over her shoulder and showing the back of the sweater.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wanted to make these into a sweater but decided to be realistic and not buy more yarn 🥲
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Now available on Ravelry! The Blantyre cardigan is worked flat in pieces with sleeves knit in the round. Charts and row by row directions included. 10 sizes from 32-66” chest. ravel.me/blantyre-car...
Laura, a Chinese-Canadian woman, poses in front of a wooden fence. She’s wearing a mauve handknit lace cardigan, white tee and blue striped skirt.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Coming Friday: the Blantyre cardigan pattern! A lovely lace cardigan with all over lace patterns and a v-neck. The body is knit flat in pieces and seamed before picking up to work the sleeves in the round. 10 sizes up to 66” chest.
Laura, a Chinese Canadian woman, stands in front of a weathered wood fence. She has her hands in the pockets of a blue and white striped skirt, and is wearing a white tee shirt and mauve handknit lace cardigan with 3/4 sleeves.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I should’ve striped in the different dye lot into the brioche section so I’d have enough of the original dye lot for the sleeves and bands. But am I willing to rip all that out? 🫣
A gingerbread-brown sweater in progress laying on a wooden floor. Both sleeves are on the needles. The lower body of the sweater is worked in perpendicular brioche stitch.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I need to take some proper pattern photos, but it’s just too hot!
Laura, a Chinese-Canadian woman, wearing a mauve hand knit lace cardigan over a white t-shirt and striped blue skirt. She’s standing in her home studio with her hands in her pockets, looking down.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Making english muffins for the freezer!
Two dark pans on a stovetop with English muffins in progress. The ones on the back pan are browned and almost done, while the front ones are just getting going.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Went to the Korean grocery for kimchi, gimbap, fried chicken and rice cakes. Now I think it’s time to sit on the couch and knit!
Diagonal ribbed knitted lace in shades of gold, turquoise, plum.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It’s been a WHILE since I last uploaded a new pattern, so I am thrilled to announce that PERPENDICULAR PULLOVER is now available on Ravelry! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Laura, a Canadian woman of Chinese descent, standing in front of a bright paned window wearing a Perpendicular Pullover in teal and yellow stripes.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I made three layer Jello! I use less water so it’s firmer. Blue, purple, raspberry.
Underside of a glass bowl with red, purple, and blue Jello.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dinner: shallots, zucchini, tofu, cabbage, garlic, ginger, light and dark soy, sugar, shao xing wine, chili crisp, green onions, coriander, sesame seeds and oil, white pepper.
A blue bowl of ruffle-y noodles with veggies.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trying out a new idea 💡 lots of fun, if a bit fiddly!
Four knitted squares in different colours attached into a strip, with the edges on a circular needle. Background is a crochet chevron blanket.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This week I have helped my dad move between hospital places TWICE, and had my first mammogram. It’s been a lot. But this sweater pattern is coming soon!
Laura is a Chinese Canadian woman wearing a yellow and teal handknit sweater with horizontal stripes on one half and vertical stripes on the other, with the colours inverted. She’s posing by a window with snow outside.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I fear I may have accidentally changed needle sizes for the sleeves, of course I didn’t write it down! It doesn’t look much different.
A purple seed stitch sweater being knit from the top down, laid out on a wooden floor. The sleeves are done and now I’m back to working on the lower body
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dinner: halushki! Butter, onion, cabbage, homemade drop dumplings - they’re super delicious and easy! You just mix up a simple dough and drop bits into boiling water until they float.
A bowl of halushki: cabbage, onion, homemade drop dumplings that are browned in butter. Sour cream on top!
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I actually finished a design I’m pretty happy with, and need to take pattern photos - but I’m so sick with covid! It feels like this pattern could do ok.
Knitted striped pullover on a dress form, with a V-neck and long sleeves, in teal and yellow.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sesame balls for CNY!
Dough balls rolled in black and white sesame seeds, being deep fried in a pot of oil with a thermometerFinished crispy, golden brown sesame balls, cooling on a rack.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Finished a sweater for my 3yo nephew - late for Christmas, but hopefully he’ll get some wear out of it this winter! My own design, Berroco Vintage DK.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Hey, check out this enormous frozen broccoli! I do have small hands but still!
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Working on a bunch of Chinese new year treats! But most of the family is too sick to hang out tomorrow. Just for us I guess.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
I got a down poncho and it is awesome!
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Bessarion is both cozy and lightweight in Drops Air! Pattern in my Ravelry and LoveCrafts shops.
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Bessarion is also available on LoveCrafts: www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/bess... #knitting #knittingpattern
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
New #knitting pattern day! Bessarion is a chunky, lacy shawl with an all over mesh and lacy leaves. Rav link: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
I keep forgetting about this place! The hair salon I went to last week was puppy sitting and I got to snuggle her 🥹
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
And LoveCrafts link: www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/cita...
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Laura Chau @cosmicpluto.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
New pattern day! Citation Cowl is a fun cowl with stranded colourwork and twisted stitches. Knit in all-Canadian yarn from Sweet Paprika. Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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