Stashbuster island

You already know about my love for tweed yarn, also for second hand shops, right? Often I buy a ball of yarn, just because I like it, an wonder later what to do with it... as I was digging in my stash a couple of weeks ago, these yarns landed in the same heap, and as I was about to put them back when I looked at the bands and realized they are almost the same quality and the colors go well toogether. It all was not enough for a full sweater, but I had something similar in my mind for a while anyway.

I've never knitted fair isle round yoke before, and I just made up the pattern as I went, but it turned out pretty good, I think.

The gauge was bigger than my usual, and thanks to that the knitting went really fast.

I used about 200 grams of the grayish greenish one, 100 grmms of the dark brown, and 100 gramms of the beige. Knitted with 4.5 mm needles (3.5 for the ribbing)

Now I want it in other colors too :-)

Regula, thanks for shooting the pictures:-)

It's up

As much as I love knitting I want to spread it. I want to teach everyone... Also I love to talk and write about knitting. I am already teaching lessons in a small yarnshop (and all of those who would let me), now I can take it a step further.

The owner of one of the hungarian web-shop approached me about taking part in her online knitting lessons, and designing some items for her yarns. The first is a set of neck-warmer, beret and fingerless gloves with mini-cables, and as a prologue there is a lesson on how to do cables, which is already up here.

Sorry, the text is all in hungarian, but there are a ton of pics...

Blue waves on the summit

For a few years now I wante a shawl or stole in shades of blue. Back then i wanted to knit a clapotis so I got this yarn with strong contrasts, but when I started knitting it it just pooled all wrong... I have a hard time saying this, because I am really tolerant toward knitting, but it was ugly. Look:

So the yarn went into detention for years... sometimes it got into my hands somehow, and I kept thinking what could I make from it, how can I save it. It is a single ply yarn from Uruguay, which probably would make it too fragile for socks (besides the 200 gramms was too much for that). Up until the moment when I saw Ági's version of the Summit from a similar yarn. By then I had my silk summit way under way on the needles, but the thought didn't let my mind to rest, and not long after I finished the silk one I cast on for the second one.

For the longest time it was my takeout knitting, I knitted on it in playground waiting in offices, cafes, in the club...

After the first few repeat I could see it is much better match for the yarn, instead of the chaos, it brings the colors toogether in a nice way.

Because it was only a take away project it took me quite a while to finish it, but I did.

The size is generous, just as I like my shawls. I can wrap myslef in it

But I can still use it as a scarf

Or scrunch it up in my neck

I have awful memories of wearing the silk one, as I was wearing it the first time when I was laid off in the bank, which kind of make me not want to wear it... which is a shame because it is a great shawl, a great pattern. Here is to this one bringing me more luck :-)

Undecided

And don't really know what to knit next. I want to do so many things at once...
But all I can show you is a weekend worth of swatches, starting this, stopping that...

Extra weekend meeting at the knitting club!

Details in the club's blog! I can't emphasize enough that the meeting is open to every crafter who likes company :-)

Red tweed

There are quite a few stuff I have a "thing" about... tweed yarn is one of them. At my last time in the second hand shop there was 300 gramms of this very colorful mostly wool and viscose yarn, obviously I just had to have it, even if I had no idea what to do with it... but leafing through one of the fresher Sabrina magazines I soon figured it out. Of course my german didn't improved in the last few weeks, so I had to go by the pictures and the charts.

Knit sideways with a cabled edge, which shows up better in real life than in the pictures.

It took me about five days to knit this.

The trouble

With shopping for yarn in those second hand shops is that it is so rare to find enough for a full sweater. Often there is something that it would be a shame to leave it there, but then I keep wondeing what to do with it. So was the case with the beige cotton ribbon yarn I found earlier this month. But then the weather turning cold and the recent succes with the turqoise shrug how useful these little things can be. Worn over tank tops, sleevless dresses in the summer, over long sleeved stuff in the winter. Once again after endless leafing through mags and ravelry pages I decided to make up a pattern for myself. Here is the end result.

Sinmple lace pattern for the body from the matte pure cotton yarn and crocheted edge from the shiny that had rayon in it.

For the photoshoot I wore it over a brown long sleeved T shirt to show the pattern better.