Easter Holiday

Yesterday I spent a big part of the day among friends in a countryside house. We ate, knitted, chatted and were given advice on knitting and sewing matters. Our lovely host had baked the most delicious bread with nuts and fruits in it. Yum! She also helped me to take photos of my new Kaleidoscope vest. I've used Schachenmayr's Cotton Bamboo.

Wrong season? Yes - some projects take their time. Here is my Stripes to keep me warm. The neck is too long for my taste and it feels huge around my shoulders, but when I look carefully on the original pattern I can see that it's not a slim fit there either. I was inspired by Ilsefin to make this cowl.

Christmas? No - but very red. When I saw the Stockholm Scarf at Knitted Bliss, I knew I had to make it at once, so I just whipped up some old Fritidsgarn from my stash and started. I love the pattern with it's cable-like stitches.

A balloon helped me with blocking this Whale Watch Hat from the book "New England knits". I made the hat with leftover yarn from weaving and from making long-pile rugs, so it's rather stiff and coarse.
The subject is a bit blurred because I'm not at all good at stranded colourwork patterns. Sometimes the floats are too tight and sometimes they're too loose.

A scarf and a shawl

When I was at a wonderful knitting-event I got a lovely knitting-bag containing yarn and a pattern for a scarf and here it is. Pattern from Drops.

A Diamonds and Pearls Shawl from The Knitter's Book of Yarn. Beware! There are some errors in the pattern. I hadn't enough yarn to bind off my shawl made of mohair so I used a yarn of viscose and flax for binding off.

På ett underbart stick-event fick jag en stick-påse fylld med garn och mönster. Av Alpaca-garnet har jag gjort en Mjuk halsduk med resårstruktur i ett Drops-mönster.

Jag har också stickat en sjal ur boken The Knitter's Book of Yarn. Det finns en del fel i mönstret, redan på varv 1. Sen har jag förstås stickat in en del egna fel som vanligt. Sjalen är gjord i ett mohairgarn som jag köpt på en hantverksutställning och tog slut när jag skulle avmaska. Det löste jag genom att avmaska med ett viscose/lingarn.

Two scarves

Not much happens here right now as I'm working 80% and studying 50%, but during summer I finished two scarves.

The yarn to number one was bought at Isager in Aarhus, Denmark. It's a little spiral and the wool -smell is so strong. My husband couldn't hide what he thought about it.......U-G-L-Y!

Number two is made with yarn from Garnpaletten. The pattern is called The Crest of the Wave and comes from the stitch library in The Knitter's Bible by Claire Crompton.

Det händer inte så mycket på stickfronten nu när jag arbetar 80% och läser 50%, men i somras blev jag färdig med två halsdukar.

Garn till den första köptes på Isager i Århus. Det är en liten spiral och garnet osar ull! Mannen kunde inte hålla inne med vad han tyckte om den....just det!

Den andra är gjord i Garnpalettens garn med ett mönster från The Knitter's Bible av Claire Crompton.