Official announcement: Its PUBLISHED!!!!

The electronic Magazine MOTOLLA by Barkafonal.

The striped cardigan on teh cover and two berets are my work...

At the moment the patterns are in Hungarian, but they will be available in English as well.

Enjoy!

Dots

The moment I saw the pattern page in ravelry for this I fell in love, I ordered the magazine within a day.

I did had to dive into the stash (umm dismantling a little castle built of IKEA boxes full of yarn... only to find these in a totally different place. As I meantioned knitting a whole adult sweater out of fingering/sport/sock weight yarn is bordering on masochism, on the other hand there is a definite advantage, that less yarn is enough for a sweater in terms of weight. For this I used three hanks of 100 gramms of the beige one, sith a small ball eft over, and a little bit more than two 50 gramm hank of the red one.

The pattern is wery well written, cleverly constructed (knitted all in one piece in the round, but decreasing at the shoulders so it looks like set in sleeves. The little three row repeat dot pattern is lovely, and it is just slightly addictive... I mean it was like ah, here comes a dot row, a little diversion, then ahh just one knit ow, that goes fast and closes the stranded one, and then ahh just one more row and I have a full repeat... and then the whole thing starts again... Also it is a perfect thing to practive stranded knitting, simple enough, not to get lost in the pattern...

I just looove the contrasting picot edges...

Mods: Didn't do the side seam stitch, but only because I didn't read the pattern throughly before starting the sweater, and made full length sleeves (I just do not like 3/4 sleeves)

The yarn I had was about sport weight (one of my ancient second hand shop finds, hiding away in teh stash for years, one of them (the beige) having a strange name of ALRÖKA, and the red one is a Schaffhauser Wolle all around, both are 100 % wool) making my gauge a bit off, but I usually knit the sizes going with the 38 inch bust, and this had a size slightly above 40 inch wich made up for the difference in the gauge.

This knitting was my companion though the lates exam period, sometimes I even knitted instead of studying... thankfully this is not showing in my results.

Masochism???

Can knitting a whole adult sized not lace sweater from sock/sport/fingering weight yarn count as masochism?

And I can't even say never again, because I have about a ton of this type...

Knitting what I preach

I really knit swatches... to almost everything.. This is just some of them.. I use them to get familiar with the yarn, how it knits up, how it behaves after washed, to determine gauge, figure out which needle to use

To try out certain patterns...



 

To see if a color combination works or not, or which one is better.. (with this I went with the lighter red).

And this is just for my current project...I am pretty excited about it :-)

Nordic

I've already knit this pattern last winter from red and white, which I can use very well with my grey, black and jeans skirts and pants, but I wanted something to o with my red skirt as well.

The whole thing is knit in one piece (pattern is from  2011/2012 winter Vogue), and since this yarn was thichker, the sweater also a littel more generous sized.

The yarn came from Ice Yarns, Unico Alpacca from a last winter sale.I used the whole 8 baéé package from the dark one and a little bit more than one from the light grey one.

In the shoulder pattern I used a different 5 row chart, but otherwise went with the pattern basically, except for the button band, which I did the same way as last year.

Photos: Christopher Laurent Deli
Place: Barkafonal

Newstime: Shop is updated!

filled up my boxes with handdyed fiber and yarn again. From the side bar you can find all the new colors to fill these dreary winter days.
Just a few to give you a taste

quick

These legwarmers were made really quickly on the day we visited my father at christmas. Cast on the train on the way, and cast off the second on teh way back. Just wanted to have something to go with my orange miniskirts and boots. 4 skeins of Drops Eskimo, 6 mm DPNs.