Stripey cardigan

So I had my boots, my socks and mittens... and then I bumped into a dress, I loved the cut of (simple as it was), but they only had in in... you guessed, PINK again. I needed something to make it wearable in somewhat colder weather, so I decided a not to thick cardigan is in order.

I wanted something simple, and wearable for me.

And from what else, but sock-yarn. According to the current state of things, no way I am ever going to knit up my sock-yarn stash anyhow. 

What would work with the pink, gray, right. And so it happens, that gray works well with my silver hair too. 

Dug out some gray yarn, and some pink one, and acording to my Instagram I started knitting this in early July. No pattern, just some regular top down wrap cardigan, with a V neck, straight outta my head. No fuss. 

Of course, there are signature elements, like the long cuffs, and there was one requirement, it should fit with a slightly lagenlook-ish style. 

It was a mainly travel knit for me, as I knitted it mostly in N's car, while we were travelling around (yes, we did managed to put a few kilometers into his car, using the slight easing of virus over the summer). 

 I have knitted one sleeve on the way to Italy, the other one on the way back. In between I did not knit much, just sat in the car open mouthed and wide eyed, pointing out here and there "Do YOU see that???" "Look at THERE!!" and stuff like that. 

At the end, I had to put it away for many weeks (even months), because I misplaced the last couple of balls of yarns. I haunted the second hand shop, hoping that something similar would pop up, and just when I finally resigned to use something else and figure out how finish without them, they popped up. (Just because someone will ask: turned out I left them in one of the side pockets of a bag I used in Italy... however, all is well that ends well).

Yes, because someone will ask this too: there is some rather agressive increase at the sides, after the waistline. I wanted to play on the uneven lines of the lagenlook style, hence the slightly ownward arching waistline, 

And so you thought with this the ink flood ended.... WRONG. There is some more from where all these came, but first, I will show something else. 

Photoes: Norbert Varga

Yarn: Some noname sockyarn from my stash. The gray as well as the pink. 

Needles: 3 mm. 
 

Pink mitts

Back to the PINK stuff, okay?

I had a bit of yarn left over from the pink socks... so what to do with that? 

Mittens of course! I always need mittens in the winter, though I rarely use more than there... how you call them? Most probably would call them dingerless, but they do have fingers... so half fingered? Now that sounds ridicoulus (and right, I do not know how to spell that either LOL).

I divided the yarn what I had exactly and started with the fingers... and by doing that, I could mess with the fingers enough that the majority of the mittens got to be more or less simmetric... ehh, its a fiddly process, shall I write about that too? The pattern is based on the one I've written for the since dead yarnstore's site Barka, and that material dissapeared the in the wasteland of deleted Internet stuff... Maybe I should make another tutorial here, who knows. 

Anyhow, by now I had boots socks and mittens... What should be the next installment of my pink-ish wardrobe? 

Stay tuned to find out. 

Photos: Norbert Varga

Yarn: Noname "Sockenwolle"

Needles: 2.25 mm Knit Pro

My old love... RED.

 Whoever thought, based on my previous note that fronow on there will be only pink stuff posted wwas wrong. Very wrong.  I would not say goodby to my old love, RED either. 

I loved red ever since I was a small girl. I wore red so much, that a friend of my dad called me "Little Red" (much like the little red riding hood,  without the riding I guess). Now, turns out that red suits my silver hair even better than it did the red one. 

And ever since I started weaving, I wanted a red shawl. A real red one, not something "red-ish", but red warp and red weft. 

No wonder, I got really antsy, when I found out that Ági's new workshop there will be a loom with red warp. I have so many plans, I could move in there. 

However, I wanted to start with something simple. I had this hank of yarn dyed in shades of red left from the last day of wool, I knew I will not keep it for the next event, but I will weave something for me from it.

Also, I keep a box full of "strange yarns", or call them effect yarns. I have no idea why, because I do not use such things for knitting... hoewer, there was a small ball of silver thread, with thicker silver and black... parts. 

I really did not want to overcomplicate stuff. All I did is a simple 1x1 weave, and the silver thread thrown in at regular interwalls. 

As a yarn dyer and spinner I like simple weaves, ones that let the yarn take the center stage. 

Not only that, but I feel my life is complicated, and unorganised as it is, I need weaving to be simple and orderly. For now at least.

Just throwing the shuttle from left to right, and right to left gives me joy and satisfaction. 

And so is seeing the simple shawl in a simple surrounding. 

While weaving, I loved seeing, how the tiny differences in the colorshades played up. 

And how evenly did the thicker parts of the effect yarn placed themselves, with very little help from me. 

For once I managed not to overshot for the length. Usually I always make these shawls just a little too long, but I did kept this just the right length.

Not too long, not too short.

And more pictures, just because I can't get enough of them.

Photos: Norbert Varga

Yarn: Peony67 handdyed

Workshop: MintaMókus Szövöde

Pink period

 It all started with this pair of pink boots. 

A little more than two years ago, when we first got together, N wanted to take me and show me Plitvice, the beautiful park in Croatia, full of waterfalls and lakes. A trip that involves considerable walking. I needed some new boots, and I bought this off from a local bidding site selling mostly used stuff. I new the brand from my time in the US (Thimberland), and it was PINK. You can by me by the kilos with colorful footwear. I had a lovely angora sweater gotten second hand. 

But then, you know me, and my little devil, the compulsion to match things up. So I needed a pair of  socks. A pair of pink socks. Loo and behold, a pair of pink sockyarn ball came up for sale in the site that sells second hand yarn. So I got them... and started a pair of socks in sometimes 2019, only to put it away for some reason... But I got them out a few weeks ago and finished... 

And then the geenie was out of the bottle, this was only the beginning... so prepare yourself for an avalanche of pink.... stuff. 

 Stay tuned.

Photoes: Norbert Varga, 

Yarn: Noname "Sockenwolle", 

needles: 2,25 mm Knit Pro DPN

Goodby 220

I’ve tried to put together a yearly summary of my Insta-pictures, but the app wanted to put in older pictures. Then I’ve written a run through of the year, but it was lost. So it seems, nothing wants me to put out anything else, but this montage. Well this was such a year, there was many good things among the bad, and I am ever so grateful for them. I was heading into this year with such high momentum and expectation, now I wait for the next one with doubtful curiosity. So let’s see what comes now. As they say, nothing is forever. Nor the good, but neither the bad. 

 

Christmas tree that almost didn't happen

 Because if  one does not posts about it, it didn't happen, right? 

A little more than a year ago we have started a huge project rearranging the flat... the primary obect, changing the room that used to be my tiny sewing room and what used to be my son's room was done by the summer, I even sewn the bridal gown and the crinolin / hoopksirt and the overskirt for my teammates. However, as a result there were heaps of stuff everywhere else, besides, why stop? 

So I attacked my gradrobes and wardrobes and started to work on the living room, (more about that in an other post). The important thing that last year there was no Christmas tree in the flat, and this year I kind od swore that unless the living room is in FULL ORDER, there will be NO Xmas tree... But life happens, and I worked more than ever in November and December, so of course, the living room is far from being in full order... 

But we had to run for a last minute shopping on yesterday morning, and this just happened.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Shoes and socks

Another installments of my shoes and socks project

The yarn is some bit of leftover of an unidentified sockyarn, bought in a secondhand shop (where else), and supplemented some other bits of leftover, unidentified jeans blue sockyarn from my stash. 

The socks are simple toe up socks, the amont of yarn deciding the lenth of the leg part. 

And, just because I will be asked: short row toes and heels. 

And the shoes are from Josef Seibelt.