January sweater

January 31. I finished knitting and sewed in the ends of the sweater I decided to knit in January. The plan went as I wanted.

The sweater is from Knittingmagazine Yr. no 53 and is designed by an Icelandic designer, Svanhvit Kristjánsdóttir.

The pattern is well written and I found it easy to follow. The sweater should have pocket on it but I decided to drop them.

     It was great idea to blend together the  two yarn types from Sandnes yarn. The yarn I used for the sweater was kitten mohair and SISU  and the colors blended perfectly.

On February 1.  I went with my son to a yarn store to buy some buttons for the sweater. We decided to have them white with some gray tones so they would not be quite as noticeable.

Shawl

This fall I started knitting a mystery shawl that is called Color Craving and is designed by Stephen West who designs under the name Westknits.

The beginning was special and impossible to imagine how the shawl would look when it would be finished.

But it was fun to knit. I used Icelandic yarn named Einband and the colors I chose were dark brown, turquoise and orange. I actually decided to go outside my color box and use colors that I'm not accustomed to using and never together but the result were very satisfying. 

But now I am casting off and almost done with it. It takes several hours to finish it because there are so many knitting stitches to cast of and of course this shawl has not an ordinary cast of but one that is with a pattern so I will take me looong time to finish it of. 

And then there is my January sweater. There is not much left of it. The plan is to finish the shawl and then finish the sweater. It should be done later this week.

Sweaters

It goes well with a sweater I'm knitting for DTH (my son). But I know that I can not finish it in two weeks as I had intended.

The sweater is nice to knit and the pattern well written. I used the same colors and are used in the pattern and they look great.

The reason why I am so slow to knit the sweater is that I'm knitting another sweater and it is for me.

 It is knitted on needles no. 3 mm(us 2,5) and from Sandnes yarn. I've been knitting it while watching the TV and it's fine because I've been knitting round and round and it will become pretty monotonous.

But now it´s  time to knitting a massive pattern and it will not be done watching the TV. But it  will be fun and I meanit,  really.

New project

in a new year.

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My boy came to me the other day and asked me to knit a sweater for him. Who can say no to such request? Not me.

We picked sweater from Icelandic knitting magazine and the picture of it is here above. The designer is Icelandic and has done a fantastic job on this sweater. Icing on the cake is that my cousin is the model in the picture.

So to the shop I stormed today and bought the yarn for the sweater and started knitting it tonight. My son asked if it would take me few months to knit it (as is all to common with me because I always have too much knitting going on at once) and I, with out thinking, told him that I could be like 2 weeks to knit it. Yup!

Happy new year

are my wishes for you and may you have a good knitting/crochet/stitching year ahead.

How quickly December always passes by and this one did it especially since I decide at the last minute to knit some Christmas gifts.

 I had been thinking about what I should give my sisters for Christmas and I finally decided to knit Christmas balls for them. I had a pattern I got from a friend and decided to use off-white wool in the white part and green glitter yarn for the bells.

The bells are very beautiful. I've never before knitted Christmas balls but now I want to make one from each pattern I have so I will be having much fun ahead for me.

The Christmas tree that I started at the end of November is not yet ready but the plan is to finish it soon.  Then I will knit all the small things over the next 11 months. In December, it should be ready to be used as a Christmas calendar.


On pinterest are lot of patterns for Christmas balls and I fount them when I taped "Christmas balls knit".

Advent calendar

The Advent calendar for those who knit and crochet.

Hopefully every knitter and crocheter has started to open the advent calender from Garnstudio.  If not you can find it here.

December

Now it's December and the holidays are rapidly closing in. Then, it´s time to make things for Christmas.

I decided to knit a Christmas tree. I have a pattern from Alan Dart who is a fantastic knitting designer and design all kinds of figures and objects.

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I bought sparkling green fur yarn that will be well hairy and sparkling Christmas tree. The tree is a Christmas calendar and hopefully I'll can start on knitting 24 small things that will hang on the tree.