Friday, April 9, 2021
Nothing special
Go ahead, and complain about combining polka dots and stripes. I actually think, they look good together.
Pictures are shot by Norbert Varga of course.
And please excuse me, while I go in the corner to whine about the headache that seemed to be triggered my first shot of being a Modern/a woman (do you want to hear the full story? I really wondering, if i should write about more personal stuff, or just stay with showing stuff I made) and the crazy weather combined. I am being an agressive bunny today.
Monday, April 5, 2021
What happens...
when you take out the socks you knitted in the car, in the dark, and see that you messed up a stitch... about 50 rows down..
Friday, April 2, 2021
Outlander- the neckwarmer
In my long term plans there is a whole set (or several set) of Oulander style clothes... I even have the fabric for many pieces, but I admit, I even had the yarn for the neckwarmer for quite a while (okay, like three or more years? I most probably bought the 4 balls of Andes yarn at one of the last Drops Wool supersale at Barka.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
The sock harvest of 2020
Most of them are made either from yarns leftover from projects, or with bits and pieces of sockyarns I picked up in second hand shops...
Friday, March 26, 2021
Silk and linen... black and red
The mix of the three colors, the two very differently structured fiber kept me entertained and then throwing the extra lines from silk, just the rythm, and order I so need from weaving.
I do love this shawl and will wear it happily.
But in retrospect, in all honesty I am not sure, the red warp did not overwhelmed the yarn. Wouldn't have a black warp emphasize more the contast between the red and the black?
This is something I can only know, if I could weave the same yarn again, in a black warp... Which I might just do. Sometimes.
The fiber is still available from the WoW (though they do not ship to the EU at the moment), so nothing keeps me spinning another hank and try it in a black warp, once that will be available in some of the workshops that keep popping up in the city.
And here is the place for the same obligatory swooning about weaving from handspun yarn, but I did that in my last weaving post, go and read that, LOL. Let's just say, I am afraid there will be some time before I got bored of it.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Oopsie
OOpsie, when two years ago I just managed to finish my new year's sweater right before March, I thought, how slow I am, if I'd knit it any slower it would be frogging (the fastest one I made in like three days or so), and now we are getting close to the end of March, and I am nowhere newar finishing it. At the moment I am not even sure its going to fit, but then nobody ever told me to try to knit a bottom up design top down. At least it is fair isle, and at least made of sock yarn.
Friday, March 19, 2021
Rainbow
For the longest time, I wante dto make rainbow colored socks... And then, Lana Grossa's rainbow colored wool/ soja sock yarn popped up in Müller...
Yarn: Lana Grossa Soya