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Adding some collar (horrible pun, but couldn't resist)
As mentioned, I did have a few metres left of the greenish-brown-with-confetti tweed after I finished the sweater. Wearing it I thought the collar was slightly too wide and low, so I decided to use my...
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Good Friday
was Best Possible Friday. I sat indoors all day with yet another sweater project - that's what terrible weather is for. About a year ago I bought some wonderful wool at WÃ¥lstedts, different shades of...
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A sleeve detour
What counts as the birth of a project, the immaculate conception (needles meet wool) or cutting the last string? Well, in this particular case it's practically the same date, 24 or 25 May, which I...
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My new best mate
Isn't this description irresistible? I love word formation like hand-holdable! A 50% discount doesn't make matters worse either.So, what prompted me to go hunting for a magnifier lamp? Well, the past...
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Back on track
Calling it an identity crisis would be an exaggeration of scandalous proportions, but someone who doesn't feel like knitting doesn't really feel like myself. I've reminded myself that's me too, except...
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Dear old Fingers
One of the first Marianne Isager designs I knitted was the "Fingers" sweaters almost 20 years ago. (Ravelry link here.) At the time I didn't use her own wool Tvinni but a thicker wool-silk blend. It's...
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Four
What better way to spend a sunny Thursday off work than a daytrip to an island in the archipelago with Born to knit? The tricky question was: how many (and which) projects to bring? Four seemed - and...
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Wool spa
My feet never felt better than after an opportunity to "tread wool" at Skansen this afternoon. Fulling is the correct word in English, isn't it?I managed to add to my stash too: two shades of grey of a...
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Busy September
Where did September go? In my case mainly workshops! Not only the workshops themselves, but also planning them. For example, even though stranded colourwork has been a favourite pattern technique of...
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The accidental lens louse
A few days a week I work in a yarn store - today a customer surprised me by handing me a crossword featuring a photo from one of my workshops! (I seem to be writing more about turning up in media than...
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Uncle Asplund
Earlier this week I suddenly had to drop all my works in progress and get some new wool. A friend of mine wrote to tell me he and his wife are parents! We were really close friends when we were both...
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The orange cast of thought
The cardigan I wrote about in my previous post is finished. I liked the wool a lot, Yaku from CaMaRose. It was sligthly worrying when I washed and blocked it, because it grew like mad when wet....
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The explorer
At long last I'm working on a mosaic knitting project. I've been interested in using the technique beyond swatches for quite a few years but not until now did I come up with the right mix of...
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Mosaic sweater progress
It took some thinking and rethinking (not to mention knitting and reknitting) before I made up my mind about the sleeves. I decided patterned sleeves would be too much of a good thing; instead they...
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Mr Mosaic
Mosaic knitting has given me ideas - I've been experimenting with hats knitted sideways, combining mosaic knitting and garter stitch. Not quite there yet as one of them is slightly too big and the...
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Happy new year!
Yes, I know we're in June, but I realise this is my first blog post this year. Not that I've been hibernating, but I've mostly been swatching for new workshops and suppose I haven't really felt like...
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Twined & brioche projects
Today my friend Andrew gave me a charming tatting book from 1944 - there are many beautiful patterns in it, so I feel like getting my shuttles out again. I don't have the nails to match them, but at...
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Twined news
There's a new Norwegian book about twined knitting - I heard about it recently (thanks, Heidi!) and sent for it straight away, of course. Such books are few and far between. It arrived yesterday, so...
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"The early bird gets the worm...
but the second mouse gets the cheese." I read this hilarious addition to the proverb recently - perhaps it's commonplace and I simply haven't come across it before? Anyway, it would have come in handy...
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Donegal sweater finished at long last
Almost to my surprise I finally finished my "Donegal" sweater, an Alice Starmore design. My Ravelry project page tells me I cast on in July 2013 - and it seems I haven't touched it since perhaps...
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Silence explained
Needless to say, I haven't been very active here lately - but it's "because of a reason" as someone once put it. Not that I can give away many details, but it is starting to look as if there really...
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Things are looking up
(Or down?)Photographer Tina Axelsson in action!Thanks, everyone for encouraging words! Now back to writing instructions... Life isn't only work, though - last week knitter friend Maja and I had a great...
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An excavation
Going through my projects and realising I must have been through a double-knitting period at some point: three cowls and a scarf! When did that happen? At least I'm well prepared for Midsumer, which is...
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Still alive and knitting
Well, I knew there wouldn't be much time left for blogging the past couple of years, but I'm still around. My book was published in October, which was a quite a relief - I did manage! Not that I would...
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Starmore mania, part 1
Well, I knew stranded colourwork was something I longed for during my book project, but little did I know I would finish no less than three Starmore projects: Mary Tudor, Thoroughbred and Rona. They're...
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