you know that lovely hat by kate davies i mentioned a few weeks ago? well, i bought the pattern at once, but didn’t get around to buying the yarn. emmy, a blog and ravelry friend had also fallen for the pattern and had ordered the yarn almost immediately from jamieson & smith. she had a [...]
Archive for October, 2011
ravelry friends and shetland wool
Posted in knitting, tagged friends, hat, ravelry, sheep heid, yarn on October 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
placed cable aran
Posted in knitting, tagged jumper, placed cable aran, sweater on October 24, 2011 | 11 Comments »
this jumper is not only a jumper. it’s the essence of what i consider a cosy, warm and soft autumn jumper to be. autumn colours pattern: placed cable aran from interweave knits, fall 2007 design: cathy payson yarn: rittenhouse from manos del uruguay yarn source: purl, new york needles: i’ve forgotten to write it down, [...]
i caved
Posted in knitting on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
i’m also making little chirping bird noises now. here.
autumn
Posted in cooking, knitting, tagged chutney, gotland, mittens on October 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
the very best season of all. a friend gave me a whole box of apples from her garden peeled apples apples, onions, sultanas, ginger and spices i’m knitting mittens while everything… …cooks for quite a long time now i have a lot of apple chutney! and the first log fire of the season
log cabin socks
Posted in knitting, tagged log cabin socks, socks on October 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
some things take a long time to finish. like the green cotton cardigan i finished this summer, for instance. these socks weren’t on the needles quite as long as the cardi, but still, it took me about three and a half years to finish them. sometimes it takes me a while to blog stuff too. [...]
kate has done it again!
Posted in inspiration, knitting, tagged blog, design, hat on October 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
i want to knit everything this woman designs! she has just released a brand new pattern, sheep heid, a hat with sheep on! what can be more wonderful for us sheep and wool enthusiasts? i have bought a few of her patterns, but i have yet to knit up any of them. i really love [...]
preparing
Posted in knitting, tagged gotland, mittens on October 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
according to smhi (swedish meteorological and hydrological institute) autumn normally arrives in the stockholm area on october first (the meteorological definition of autumn is when the average temperature during one day and night is below 10 degrees celsius). this year, it was late and only arrived yesterday. a few weeks ago, i thought it a [...]
mad about yarn
Posted in crafting, creativity, knitting, tagged museum, yarn on October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
no it’s not just me, lots of creative people gathered at nordiska museet (the nordic museum) yesterday for a whole day dedicated to yarn, mad about yarn. there were knitting, i-cording, spinning, embroidery and bobbin lacing. the museum’s new textile curator, anna-karin jobs arnberg, gave a tour of the textile gallery. mushroom dyed yarn flax [...]
hampton cardigan
Posted in knitting, tagged cardigan, hampton cardigan, wool on October 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
my new (not green) cardigan is finished and i’m very satisfied with the result. even though i doubted the design of it, especially when the knitting bit was done but i still had the seaming to do. it looked rather strange and small. but now i’m convinced that i did the right thing when i [...]
