Monthly Quote: February

Happy February, everyone!

I've been working a lot on the issues I spoke of in my last post, and I feel a lot calmer and more "settled" in myself now than I did a month ago. I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying it - the ease of feeling sufficient and good enough, no matter what I do and choose.
I still have a ways to go, but I'm relishing the progress, and feel steady as I go on accepting and relaxing in myself and my life, whatever each new day brings.

As you might have gathered from this image, I'm knitting again! I've even finished a project - a headband from the clever women at KlompeLompe, and I'm thrilled with the end result. I bought a Busy Lizzy to make the I-cord, and I couldn't have made a better decision. The decision to get one was motivated by my limited knitting time, since I can't knit for very long sessions at a time (at least not for now). It took a few minutes to have the I-cord finished and threaded into the headband, and I don't think you can comprehend the joy I felt as I held my first finished project in my hands since September last year. As you can also see from the photo, I've started another headband, this time in opposite colours, and I'm still really enjoying the pattern.
The best thing I did in January was to consult an expert regarding my arm, and consequently get two sessions of treatment which initially made me feel a lot worse, but which has led to my arm improving substantially in the subsequent weeks. I still need to be careful doing repetitive work for longer periods, but I got the experts blessing to knit a bit when I feel like it. So I do, and I love it and thrive on it.

Since last we spoke, we've gotten the window frames and the sills attached to the windows in the dining room. I took this picture to see how I liked the curtains I've bought for the room - and to get your opinion! What do you think? I like it more and more the longer I look at the photo. All that green is just yummy. In this photo we had yet to attach the frame below the sill - we've done that now, and it looks so nice!! Pictures to come...


Now - on to the quote for February (which I will spend holidaying in South Africa and England with my dear Alasdair, hooray!):

"In three words I can sum up everything that I've learned about life: it goes on." 

- Robert Frost. 

Have a beautiful month, everyone!

The Little Bumps Cowl Now Available

So the day came a bit sooner than I had thought for the release of my pattern, which is great for you, since it'll give you ample time to knit one of these for Christmas!

It's a fast and enjoyable knit, and will come flying off your needles in no time as you hurry to get to the next row with bumps.

I'm absolutely thrilled (and a bit scared) at having a pattern online, and I'm so looking forward to hear your response and see some cowls knitted up by someone else. I hope you'll enjoy making one as much as I did!

 

 

Happy knitting to you all! 

xx, Elise

Moving out!

We are in Oslo again, packing our books (how can there be so many?) and yarn into boxes, preparing for our big move next week. It's so amazing to think that soon we'll be living up north!
It is pretty hectic around here as you can probably imagine, with boxes everywhere, and laundry hanging to dry at all times, but I'm making sure I get some knitting time every night, just to keep me sane.

 

Right now I'm knitting on a pair of socks. It's about as mindless and straight forward a project as I can manage at the moment, but it is proving the best choice for now. I'm using the Lifestyle Toe Up pattern, by Charisa Martin Cairn, which has become my go-to pattern for toe up socks.  It is so simple, and I love the fact that you don't have to knit a gauge swatch before you start. You just cast on either 8, 10 or 12 stitches for the toe, depending on the size of the feet they're knitted for, and you're off! I'm using left overs for these ones, some Filcolana and some Lang Wool, I think. 

These socks are destined for my ever expanding Christmas pile, which pleases me immensely - I love gifting homemade things for Christmas! 

Have a happy Sunday!

Mittens in June?

June seems to be a bit weather confused in these parts of the world. So far we've had

- one day of wind and sun

- one of pouring rain (cats and dogs style)

- and one of calm, but chill stillness requiring socks (and mittens for the extra cold)




I don't know if you remember these? They've been in the making for a long time! Here's just photo proof that they're all done, at last.

I really hope that I won't be needing these in the near future... but if I do, my hands will at least look quite nice!

FO: Cable Cloud Cowl + a sneek peak

Hello again!

It's been a while since I blogged, but I've been busy knitting, spending time with my dear sister and otherwise being really enthused about future plans that are yet to be revealed (har har). Stay tuned for that, it will be so amazing!!
I've got some lovely pictures to show you of my finished Cable Cloud Cowl, which I finally took yesterday with said sister as my model. I couldn't be more happy about it - it turned out exactly the way I had envisioned, and is even more cuddly and cosy than I expected!
You can find the (k)nitty gritty of it on my ravelry project page, if you are so inclined. (Or read my previous blog post!)

Now to the photos!

For a 5'4" person this is a bit of a wide, or should I say deep, cowl, but once it's folded it works:

 

All that's left to say is that this project was FUN! It inspired me and motivated me to do more Christmas knitting, and has got me working on a wee "design" of my own: 

This is just a sneek peak, but I promise I'll be back with more photos once it's finished. This new stitch has gotten me on a roll - I'm thinking of trying it out on a background of garter stitches, maybe for a shawl? I'm excited to try it out!
(By the way, I'm in love with this colourway of Pickles Tweedy! It's called Perle, and can be found here.)

Hope you are all enjoying the last weekend in May - it's gone so fast!!

Cable Cloud Cowl

One of my WIPs is the Cable Cloud Cowl from the PurlBee, and I have to say I'm loving it! It is so much fun, and part of the fun is just imagining how squishy and soft and warm and - last but not least - how incredibly beautiful it will be when it's all knit up.

I'm knitting this cowl in Drops Air, a fluffy yarn made from baby alpaca and merino wool (plus a bit of polyester for durability, I suppose). I was initially quite worried about how the stitch definition would be pairing this yarn and this pattern, but I needn't have worried, it worked so well in the end. I'm not only enjoying knitting this, but it is also making me feel really good about myself for other reasons. It's (can you believe it) a Christmas knit. Yes, I'll repeat it: a Christmas knit!! In April! I hope you are as shocked at this as I am (or maybe all of you fellow knitters who read my blog all start your gift knitting months and months in advance and never have to worry about getting it all done before Christmas because you started too late?)




I'm also really in love with my new Oxalis (if my google search is to be trusted, this particular variety is called Oxalis tetraphylla). The leaves are just stunning, don't you think?

I'll get back to my knitting now, accompanied by an episode or two of Twin Peaks - it is so good. Can't believe I never watched it before!

x, Elise

Halligarth

It's funny how it works, isn't it, that now that I've decided to be more impulsive about my blog and the contents I put up, I actually have a finished object to show you?

I showed a few 'in progress' photos what seems ages ago (here), but I suddenly had the urge to finish knitting the Halligarth shawl for my grandma! I've loved working on this shawl, and remember thinking I didn't want it to end when I was in the middle of it. I struggled to understand how to knit "perpendicularly" for the edging, and had to try quite a few times before I suddenly had one of those wow-moments. It then took me about two nights, or about four episodes of Downton Abbey to have the shawl finished.




The end result is a lovely, squishy, soft and luxurious shawl that will hopefully be to the liking of my dear grandma.



The pattern was easy to follow (even the edging instructions that I didn't 'get' to begin with - after I re-read them properly the rest was easy peasy), and I even managed to memorise it, which is rare for me.



I was also eager to see how the Spindrift yarn would behave during blocking and after - I've heard so much good stuff about 'the good memory' of Shetland wool, and I wasn't disappointed! The shawl dried reasonably fast (I decided to wet wet block it), and the stitches and the pattern bloomed beautifully and when I unpinned it, it kept the shape remarkably well, and feels soft and firm at the same time. Lovely, mmm!


I'm excited to start knitting the shawl for my maternal grandmother, Anna Elise (my namesake), and have started to look through Ravelry for patterns (there are SO many, oh dear). Will keep you updated on what I choose.
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Pattern: Halligarth , by Gudrun Johnston
Yarn: Jamieson's Spindrift, in the colourway 'Sunrise'
Needle(s): 4,5 mm 

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Hope you've also had some knitting successes lately!

Epistropheid

First project finished (and begun) in 2015:

An Epistropheid hat for my dear boyfriend, Alasdair.



It's knitted in Pickles's Tweedy,  a nice, worsted/aran-y yarn (don't actually know what I'm talking about here, but hopefully you'll get an idea of the thickness), which leaves the knitted fabric with lovely little specks of unexpected colours dotted all over it. While I loved the yarn in the ball, I'm not so sure about how I feel after knitting with it. I think it had something to do with the gauge I knitted this hat in, and not actually the yarn itself. Although the hat ended up fitting Alasdair surprisingly well (especially considering I skipped the oh-so-important gauge swatch this time around), it doesn't drape. At all. Which means that this hat, while looking great on Alasdair, looks funny (a.k.a. ridiculous) when worn by yours truly, as in standing up oddly, kinda sortof like a fez... Which is good for Alasdair, but not for me, since I had a cunning plan involving me using this hat as much as him. But! The pattern was an absolute treat to follow and knit, so it won't really be much of a bother to knit another one, hooray!



Like any hat pattern by Kate Davies, the crown stands out as a masterpiece (especially to a novice pattern "creator" like myself). I'm especially pleased that I managed to knit the decreases smoothly - practice makes one better at knitting, apparently..



And after all this I'm left with a chuffed BF, who's not going to have to walk around with a cold head in the Norwegian winter, which sometimes lasts for a very long time indeed. (Also, the warm and cozy looking cowl he is wearing in this photo is none other than the Calimero I test knit for Elizabeth Brassard a year and a half ago!!)

December in Oslo

It's been a long, long time since my last post - I think I must have broken my old record, leaving no posts behind re: November 2014. It's been busy. 
I've gotten lots of good Christmas knitting in these past couple months, and I'm not doing a quite as low-key knitting this year as last. I've been working on some Cricket cardigans for our two nieces and our nephew, and I'm nearing the finishing line! I'll have to do some serious knitting on the pink one this coming week, but I'm positive I'll be able to finish it. (Writing this, I realise I never posted the FO pictures of the first Cricket I made, only the WIP ones! Kindly find photos below in this post).
In other knitterly new, I'm experiencing some serious craving to do some good old ego-knitting, which is typical, I believe, for this season in particular. The other day we watched The Matrix, and I sort of fell in love with the well-worn knitted jumpers that Neo and crew were all wearing, and what do you know? There is actually a pattern for one on Ravelry (I shouldn't really be surprised, Ravelry is amazing!). I like the look of the pattern, but would like it to be a bit less fitted, and more like Neo and Trinity's:

Excuse the poor image quality on this one, I did a simple google search and this picture shows what I mean, I think (plus a really nice moment between these two). I think my one would be in Neo's coulourway, but in the style of Trinity's (that is, less ripped, and with a boatneck).

Enough of these ramblings, and on to the Cricket photos: 

Here's the cardigan all finished, but pre-blocking (I haven't gotten round to blocking it yet, and might just do a steam press instead, I think it looks about right and quite good as it is).



I chose to line the pockets with green leftovers from another project, and it looks really sweet, I think.



And then I put a fox on it, just because! If you want more (not-so extensive) notes on this project, go check out my Ravelry project page, here. 

I'll try my best to take a decent photo of all the cardigans when they're done, but the light here is terrible these days. When I leave for work it's dark, and when I come back, it's dark again!

I hope you are all having creative and happy Advents, wherever you are in the world!

settling in

The long hiatus has been due to me and my boyfriend moving house and settling into a new life, in a new city, in a new country! (At least for the former...)




There hasn't been a lot of time for knitting in the last month, but I've managed to knit a few washcloths for that instant gratification feeling you're probably familiar with. Just this week, however, we bought a sofa (!) so now I can sit in a comfortable spot and do some serious knitting, if I choose to. I started my second Cricket this week as a result, and I'm in love with the Cascade 220 in this colour! Wish I could get some for myself, too...
This little cardigan will warm our little nephew around Christmas time, if all goes according to plan.

I will try to post more consistently, but it can get quite hectic with my new job and the hunt for furniture for our flat. Will keep you posted on that, and perhaps share a few pictures of how the decorating is going? Tell me what you think!

Have a wonderful weekend!

MA History - check!

A week ago today I was revising for my last exam here at the University of Edinburgh. It was - and still is - a very strange feeling knowing that the next day it would all be over, that there would be no more exams. At least not here, at this point. It is refreshing and daunting at the same time, not knowing what the next year will bring. As I walked out of the exam last Friday I sighed a sigh of relief, and thought about what's next. The last year has been hard in many ways, but now I'm happy I finished and that I proved to myself that I could and can if I want to.

The day after the exam, the rain came, and it has been raining on and off ever since, for the past week. It's been therapeutic, in a way, as if Edinburgh decided to wash away all the exam stress.






And I'm sure you've guessed already what I've been spending these rainy days doing. Exactly - knitting! And this is basically what my days look like now:



This is my attempt at the new shawl pattern from Gudrun Johnston, Halligarth. Earlier this spring I decided I'd like to knit a shawl for each of my grandmothers, and this is for my paternal grandmother, Karen, who told me she loves deep red. Since this pattern was inspired by a wood on the Shetland Islands, I decided I'd like to use wool from Shetland for this shawl, and since I love Jamieson's Spindrift, it was an easy choice. They have so many incredible colours, I had a hard time picking a red that I thought would be perfect for my grandma, but I think this one, Sunrise, fits my criteria perfectly.

This close-up picture shows the colour more accurately:



For my maternal grandmother, Anna Elise, I quickly decided I'd like to knit Kate Davies' new pattern, A Hap for Harriet. After having read the beautiful story behind the design on Kate's blog, I was even more determined. I haven't started knitting this one yet, since the yarn I'm going to use is currently in Norway at my parents' house.

While I'm loving the lace pattern of the Halligarth, I also quickly cast on a new cardigan for one of the 'nieces', Olivia, in a simpler stockinette stitch, to knit while watching X-Files and other things.  Here's a photo of my progress so far:



I'm making a Cricket! I've unravelled a scarf I'd initially planned on giving to Olivia's mum for Christmas, but it got too tedious, in order to knit this instead. The yarn (Cascade 220) is not the right weight, really, for this cardigan, but I'm only a few stitches off the right gauge using 4, 5mm needles, so I'm sort of counting on it to end up somewhere inbetween a 4 and 6 year-old, which is a good thing, right? Olivia will turn three right after Christmas, but she is a very tall girl with very tall parents, so fingers crossed she'll be able to wear it for a full year at least (maybe even longer?). I'm planning on using some of my moss-green left-overs from a shawl knitted in the same wool for the lining of the pockets (which, incidentally, I'm super excited about knitting, since it'll be my first time!).

So that was that for this time, but it feels wonderful to have rested and to have knitted guilt-free for nearly a whole week. May the next year be very knitterly and wooly!

Left over Love

Earlier this year I decided to purchase a copy of Mary Jane Mucklestone's 200 Fair Isle Designs. I've been meaning to learn more about fair isle knitting and colours, with the hopes of creating my own patterns some day. I love doing stranded colourwork, since it's so addictive and therefore makes for speedy progress in projects. I'm not confident enough to create a pattern form scratch just yet, but I used the inimitable Kate Davies' Ursula mitten pattern as a basis for these mittens:



Having knit two pairs following Davies' pattern, I knew that the fit would be perfect for the intended recipient of these mittens. I decided to use the left overs from the other pairs of mittens for this pair, both to use up some of my leftovers, but also because I saw it as a golden opportunity (and a challenge) to put colours together in new ways. I ended up just knitting the colours at random, but the end result looks neat anyhow, with the black on the cuff, thumb and fingertips.

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I'm looking forward to venturing into 'uncharted' (gettit?) territory with the aid of Mucklestone's book. My mum gave me some lovely organic wool, probably enough for a jumper/cardigan, in two colours, which I'm hoping I can turn into something wearable and nice. I'm thinking something slightly Icelandic, with a round yoke, perhaps? Time will show - I will keep you updated on that process when I have more time for sketching, swatching and knitting. For the next week I'll be busy finishing my coursework for my last semester at university! It's unbelievable, but so nice to think that I'll be done in about two months time. Cross your fingers and toes for me! 

little hello

Hello!
Sorry for that very long and sad blogging hiatus - I'm back!
In between writing on my final year dissertation, stressing about other essays that needs to get started (and eventually done) I've tried to find time for some knitting. I've been struggling with an inflammation in my right arm, probably tennis elbow (?), for a while, and I think, somehow, I keep making it worse by worrying too much about it. Yes, I've realised it's probably turned into a sort of psychosomatic thing by now, so I'm trying to not worry so much about my arms and just knit a little bit here and there. It has been working really well for me, and I've started knitting a pair of fair isle mittens with left over Shetland yarns that were lying around in my room:



I've actually nearly finished the first mitten already, this is a photo from earlier in the week. I really love playing around with my colours. And also, look! It's light! Thank you for that, early spring.
I hope to be able to blog a bit more, I even charged my SLR (!) so I can easily take photos of projects, and it's all a lot more motivating when the light is coming back, don't you think?

What are you working on? I'd love to see, so please leave a link for me to check out!

Low key Christmas Knitting

Soundtrack: the voices in my head telling me to do work for uni instead of knitting. Oh well!

Sorry for my long absence, it's been quite hectic around here lately. Being a fourth-year student is not a joke, apparently. I must admit I've been dealing with it a lot more sanely than I thought I would, and that is a plus. In addition to that, essay work always means a lot of knitting (at least for me, anyone familiar with the logic?). I've decided to keep my ambitions low for this year, and I'm only knitting for pleasure, basically. But I have ended up with some gifts for a lucky few.

First out is this cute hat:



I knit this using three different strands of yarn to get a chunky/aran-ish sort of weight that the pattern called for. I think it turned out pretty well, although I ended up with a tiny size, so this one goes to my boyfriend's little nephew, who'll be around 6 months come Christmas time. The yarns I used were a DK weight merino, some Sandnes Garn Alpakka and Jamieson's Spindrift. This picture shows the hat unblocked, and hopefully after a good soak and stretch it'll be a bit bigger. Why do I knit so tightly?

Second in line is this little jumper:



This is strictly speaking not a Christmas present, but a 'welcome-to-the-world'-gift to a friend who's having a baby any time now. It has been wrapped and sent home with a friend who came to visit a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it'll be able to warm a tiny body soon. It was very fun knitting this jumper, and it must be the smalles 'proper' garment I've ever made! The yarn was the left over yarn from these mittens - Scappa Aran, which I absolutely love to work with. The buttons I found in an Etsy-shop and couldn't resist using them for this jumper.

And the last item for this post, these mittens:



I've been trying to use my left-over yarns for a while now, and I think I've been very successful so far. In fact all of these items were knit using yarn that was already in my basket! I knit these out of my left over Christmas Red Cascade 220, which I made this hat from earlier this year. They were lots of fun knitting, and I avoided the Second Mitten Syndrome, if there is indeed such a thing. I have washed and blocked these very lightly, and the yarn is just scrumptious, and has a lovely glow to it. I might upload another picture of them all finished - it is just so tricky to photograph anything now that it gets dark so early. These are a going to be a present for a dear friend of mine.

What have you been knitting lately? Are you having high ambitions for Christmas-knitting this year, or are you - like me - only knitting for pleasure?

Thanks for visiting!

Calimero

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I took part in a test knit. This was my very first time test knitting anything, so I was naturally quite excited about it.

What I knitted was this:

 

A cowl, that can also, in a matter of seconds, be transformed into either a slouchy hat or a thick, more tight fitting hat. I test knit it in size L, so both me and my boyfriend can use it this coming winter - as a cowl for me, and as both for my boyfriend. It is really a very clever design, which incorporates a few simple, but highly effective techniques. It was designed by Elizabeth Brassard, who likes playing around with garter stitch.


In this photo, the details of the Malabrigo Worsted is shown in detail. I decided, in cohorts with my boyfriend, to knit Calimero in the colourway Marine, since I haven't really knitted much in blue before, and also because it would give a nice (but subdued) pop of colour to his otherwise black/grey wardrobe. Visit the ravelry page for more details on this cool design, here.

After having finished my first test knit, I'm left feeling good about aiding someone in the process of publishing a new, exciting pattern, but also thoroughly inspired.

On the needles recently

Soundtrack: wood pidgeons outside my kitchen window.

 It's been a while since I did a post about my knitting adventures, so I thought I'd share some of my most recently finished projects with you. I've knitted LOTS over the summer and it's been so fantastic to knit completely guilt free (as any student who loves to knit might empathise with).

My most recent project to come off the needles was this lovely cardigan:



It was knitted using Eden Cottage Yarn's Langdale Aran weight merino wool in the colourway Clematis. It created a lush, drapey and heavy weight fabric - perfect for the winter. It was knitted using Pickles' Plain Cardigan pattern, which you can find here, in the 3-4 year size.



A close-up of the buttons. More details on Ravelry.


Before the cardigan I knitted this hat - modelled after the one worn by Bill Murray, Owen Wilson et al. in The Life Aquatic:



It taught me how to do a tubular cast on which looks very professional and creates a very stretchy edge. It was knitted in Cascade 220 Solids, in the colourway Christmas Red. More on Ravelry.


Before I returned from my holiday in Norway, I knitted myself a Betty sweater, another Pickles pattern:



The only modifications I made was to omit the rib collar to make the fit more relaxed. It is very warm, so I haven't been able to wear it yet, but I'm really looking forward to wearing it from now on. It was knit in Drops Nepal in a mustard yellow colour I absolutely l-o-v-e, and I got it at an incredible price! So happy about this one.


Right now I've got lots of planned projects in front of me, as well as a couple recently started ones. I'm testknitting a pattern for the first time in my life, which is very exciting; more on that when the pattern has been published!  I've cast on a Divison Cardigan in a DK weight yarn made from 50% Jacob wool and 50% mohair, from Blacker Yarns - find the exact one I'm using here (it's on sale!!), and here's a photo of the first sleeve:



Not only do I love the yarn, it's so sturdy and lovely to knit with, but the pattern is one of the clearest, most concise patterns I've ever come across. Amy Christoffers - you have convinced me that all the hype about the excellence of your patterns on Ravelry, and elsewhere, is completely warranted.

quick hello

Soundtrack: Patti Smith – Going Under - Digitally Remastered, 1996

Hello again! I hope you've had a lovely summer, I have! I'm sorry I have completely neglected this blog, but I haven't been idle in the summer. I've been using my Pentax MX a lot in the summer, taking some pictures at home in Norway as well as a whole lot from a lovely wedding I was invited to. I will be developing a bunch of them any day now, so stay tuned.




My red geranium just started to blossom over again when I returned to Edinburgh. There's just something about a red geranium on the window sill... don't you agree?



I cast on a little project to get rid of my impulse-yarn. I'm not normally an impulse-yarn-buyer (only if I see something extraordinarily nice that I simply have to have in my stash, which, to be fair, happens from time to time) and I've been experiencing big trouble finding suitable projects for this Fingering/4ply yarn. It's 100% merino, but feels rather like cotton, and I'm not a huge fan. It's in a lovely shade, though, so I'll persevere. I've got a little cardigan on the needles, in the same yarn, which has knit up beautifully, so maybe it's just me being a little yarn blind at the moment?

What have you been up to in the summer? Would love to hear how you've been!


Digital photos
Canon EOS 400d

Friday Knits

Soundtrack: Small Faces – Itchycoo Park, a happy one for Friday!

Hello! I'm breaking my own rule, but then this is my blog, so I suppose there are really no rules...

In between my revision I find time for some creating, and these are a couple of projects that have come off the needles recently:




A lovely, green shawl/scarf for my mum, as a little everyday surprise. I chose this particular pattern because I wanted to make something fast, with a lot of stockinette, but with a little bit of everyday luxury added to it. The yarn is Cascade Yarns' Cascade 220 Heathers, in the colourway "Turtle." I have never worked with this yarn before, and have to say I'm very pleased with it. It felt durable and knitted up very evenly and nice, showing off the pattern details just right. The yardage was also good for the price, which is always a positive!




And these! My first project from Kate Davies' book Colours of Shetland. I've been so excited to make something from the book, and these proved to be a super appetiser, so to speak. These were knit a lovely yarn from Jamieson's: Shetland Spindrift, in four incredibly complementing colours, don't you agree? The pattern was very easy to follow, and the result is just so nice! The stranded colourwork makes them very warm and I can tell that they'll only get better and better when they're worn, since the wool will felt all cosy inside. I love the vintage look of them, as well, and can picture these paired with a lovely 1940s tweed coat perfectly in my head. Now I just want to knit all the garments in the book... I think my next project from the book will have to be the Scatness Tam, the colours are just so wonderful.

What are you currently working on? If you're not knitting, I'd love to hear what you spend your days doing anyway!

All photos are digital
Canon EOS 400d

Needle and Thread v

Soundtrack: Rufus Wainwright – Poses

I have been incredibly busy with my uni-work over the past few weeks. Luckily this week will, hopefully, see the last of the stress, and the rest of the semester will go by at a more normal pace. My hands, as well as my head, have not been idle, however.

Here is some of the - almost - finished sleeve for my new jumper:



I'm sorry for the darkness in this photo, it looked so much lighter on the tiny camera screen... somehow.



This one is a bit blurry, but I chose to add it because it shows off how well all the colours in the Scappa Yarns go together! The yarn smells wonderfully sheepy. Fair Isle knitting is new to me, and I have to say that so far my experience with it has been pure joy. It is such a creative and fun process putting the different colours together and managing to keep the different stripes in the chart unique. I like to think that this'll be my little part of Scotland to bring back home when I finish my studies here, since it's both knit using Scottish yarns and a Scottish technique. The pattern I'm using is this one, Pop Isle, from Edinburgh-based designer and owner of K1 Yarns, Katharine Walker.



And here's a shot of the ribbing, which I think is so much easier to get even and nice when using the magic loop method; what do you think? 


Digital photos
Canon EOS 400d

Needle and Thread III

Soundtrack: Patti Smith – Mosaic

This week I am in between projects, so these pictures are of my most recent finished objects:




My green cardigan is finally finished, and it is so comfy and lovely to wear.



A somewhat blurry shot of the whole cardigan. As you can see, especially round the elbows, it's been worn quite a lot since it was blocked.



And finally, the mittens I wrote about two weeks ago. These have been done for quite some time. Now I only need to send them to the recipient and hope that they'll keep him warm...

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I'm wondering what to knit next; considering a baby blanket for a new baby that is due in the summer, or perhaps a little jacket or jumper, instead? I do like the look of those owls... What do you think I should knit?
And, what are you making/doing at the moment? I'm curious!