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or at least one!

Odd Molly meets Noa Noa

My images has been added said blogger but I can´t see them! If I could it would be two pics ( or by now five ) of my new sweather knitted in a silk yarn bought in Copenhagen in a bargain bin in august or maybee july.
I knitted it from the top and did the arms on circular needles. The hems are in crochet, idea stolen from Odd Molly. I used 10 balls of yarn and now I have to weave in all ends and add some velvet trim and snap buttons.
I got 2 hole balls left and are going to use them for a cutebag found on an internetsite, forgotten what site. Sorry!
And it´s been added too! Let´s skip this for tonight

Onion jacket again

Last night I basically finished the body with the hood, still need to add the zipper and some handstitching and finding the right trim. I had some difficulties thinking up how to proceed with the hood but I ended up sewing the outer layer on mashine and attaching the inner layer by hand, looked like this

The grey is the lining and the burgundy is for the inside of the hood and facings. It was nice sewing the bouclé but I lost some needles in it and I was glad that I used 2 cm seam allowances! I attached the chain to. I had a golden chain since a long time ago that I used, but the zipper is going to be brass, I´ve decided not to think too much about this. So far I´m pleased with the result and I´m glad I shoosed this tecnique instead of underlaying and do it the usual way and so far I´m very pleased with the pattern. It will probably not look like a regular Chanel jacket but everyone know I can´t afford that either... I think I´ll like this better!

Onion jacket

I bought this fabric a year ago in Paris, it´s a wool- viscose bouclé and it looks much more hot pink in real life. I like Chanelstyle jackets but I´m not a classic dresser so it´s been resting in my closet but the other day I took this pattern:
and decided to make a jacket for myself. I shortened the jacket 5 cm/ 2 inches, it´s longer than on the drawing and shortened the arms to, I do that on all Onionpatterns and made a FBA. It´s under construction, I´m using the tecnique in last Threads and had some difficulties figuring out how to do the hood. I´m lining the complete jacket, used a quilted burgundy fabric bought at PR weekend Copenhagen last year for the hood, front and lower arms and grey viscoselining for the rest. I like it so far. I havn´t been sewing much this fall so I really need something to get me going. I have enought fabric for a skirt too, but I dont think I´ll ever wear them together.

broche

Bad shot! but I wanted to show my nice broch made my my friend Jenny. She used a pattern from garnstudio and two shades of Karisma. The pattern for the flower is on a hat and scarf if you want to make one yourself.

Skirt for fall

All fall I´ve seen cute skirts in the windows in city with trims, inspiring me to make this one. And since I´m been really low on sewing for a long time I thought a fast project was gonna start me off again, I bought this fabric ( cotton ) becourse I liked the fabric and the colors anf since I consider myself a Fall I thought it would be nice. I did it basically freehand, took a chance on how much I needed for the hip, used the small cheap ruffler to gather the ruffled part and then had to cut away 20 cm, 8 inches becourse it was to big ( at least it wasn´t the other way around...) The velvet trim was in the stash and for speedreasons I used elastic in the waist

This is how it looks like and it looks godd on me to and I like it, but I don´t feel comfortable wearing it now, it feels to summery.

Here´s a detail of the fabric and the trim. I have to see what I can find in the closet to tune the colors down or I just have to wait for next summer or early spring will do.

Dear Santa, today I´ve been very good...

I made new arms and new cuffs that I like, I also sewed the lining and attached it and the facings to the coat. Next will be some handstitching to hold the facing. I still need some creative way to hide the extra buttonhole and I need to open up the facing for the buttons. Now I´m allowed to go clubbing tonight. There are a couple of creative women in this town who has started "craft clubbing", one of them said in an interview that it was becourse it was so boring going out and have nothing to do and being the only one knitting in the pub... Way to go!!!

Viveca finished

The knitting on Viveca is done, now it needs some sewing, weaving in ends and blocking.
Next project is my silkyarn that I´m making a cardigan with raglan sleeves knitted from the top! I think it will work

Viveca again

First arm finished, I really like the long wide style. I also did the crochet around the V neck and if it was one cm deeper I would have to frog again. If someone are planning to knit it and read this consider measuring this before!

Wintercoat

This is what my coat looked like when I gave in last year. The pattern is a BWF jacket. I had a lot of inspiration and tried different armcuffs, but then I made a buttonhole too many and it wasn´t fun anymore. It´s been ripped so you can´t see it on the picture but I have to do something fun to cover it, maybee some machine embroidery on a piece of the velvet, don´t know yet. I bought new really expensive boots so this is what I have to work with for a coat. The wool is from Stoff och Stil, a danish chain fabric store as is the velvet trim and the velvet for the collar and armcuffs is from Ohlssons tyger that´s closing down now and having a sale. It´s really not a big deal for the people of Malmö, but they where my source for Onion patterns.
Progress on Viveca: finished front again and are half way throught first arm, doing it on circular needles and starting from the top, I made the arms 12 stitches wider by picking up stitches from the sideseams and knitting them until size of the 8 stitches added and then picking up from the armcycle. The V-neck looks really good now. I increased every second row. will try to take picture o it, it´ll probably looks like those fashion photos showing black clothes...

Viveca

I finished the front of the Viveca and knitted the shoulders together and tried it on. No way I can be creative enought to do something about this deep V-neck so I frogged it and is going to knit 10 cm/ 4 inches more before splitting this time. I´m doing it in XL and maybee the other sizes have better proportions.

I was going to write about my mini SWAP here but since blogger don´t want to load pictures tonight I´ll be back another time, on a computer near you

...and more socks

My Jaywalkers are done.
The Viveca sweather has a finished back and almost a front too. It has a very low V-neck I might do something creative there and there are some miscalculations in the pattern but it´s easy to knit and a rather fast project.
Yestarday I was snoopshopping Odd Molly merchendice and are planning to use a silk yarn for a "stolen" cardigan .
I have a half sewen coat from last year that I will have to look into and then there´s the Lucia jacket. I think I might be the UFO queen!

knitting and sewing

The ripple weawe socks that I showed earlier has been frogged twice and turned into 1,5 Jaywalker socks. I got messed up in the pattern and decided not to sweat so much over a pair of socks.
I´ve been sewing too. I made new curtains for my livingroom and it´s probably the first time I decided to make curtains, sewed them and completed the hemming in two days. Now I´m allowed to lock for new pillows, Yey!
I went to Salvation army yesterday and found a nice yarn in a wool, cotton, linen and polyamid blend, it´s only 7% synthetic so I bought it 20 balls and started to knit a Viveca sweather from the latest Knitty. The yarn I bought are a twist of a plain black wool tread and a blue boucle tread and I´m using a burgundy cotton for the details.
Talking about burgundy, I also found a lambwool men´s sweather that I felted yesterday and should eventually become something very nice. I should however finish my green " spede" from a felted green sweather.

Bags

Amy Butler has really cute patterns and this pattern looked both simple and cute.
I´m a true beliver that you can´t have too many bags or too many shoes, but shoes can give you blisters and doesn´t always fit som my obsession is more to bags and When I found this bag I had to make my own. I do own two of her patterns too but this one I chosed to steal first in FQ reproprints


and then in a remnant from a jacket I made before. This one is what I use to bring lunch and fruit to work in
The repro bag I use as a handbag when wearing turquoise clothes

Odd Molly

A good site for snoopshopping is Odd Molly. They have two fall and winter collections out now, a lot of goodies for someone who crochet, knit and sew.
oddmolly.com.
I probably told you about them before but I get so inspired by them!

socks. socks, socks

I never thought I would be a sockoholic but now I have
to confess! I love these small project and the possability to try new tecniques in knitting. My latest sock is the feather and fan sock in purple, I took a break in knitting them due to heat so they are slightly different in size... The selfstriping sock is knit in a cotton-acrylic yarn called Rodeo. I had to use 3 balls due to matching stripes and the last picture showes the start of the Ripple weave sock from the latest Vogue Knitting ( I find the fall issue 2006 very good and a lot of things I like and can wear )

Inspirations

A little something I found on the net. The necklace is from antropology and if you go there you can zoom to count the stitches, or you can take the idea and use different flowers and stars. It´s made of merc. cotton and lurex.

The bag is from Stonemountainbags and is croched in a feather and fanpattern. I want both!

Alive and knitting

This is my cat playing with my latest project. I ran across some difficulty sewing the pockets on the jacket so it´s been put aside. This project is going to be som kind of raglan sweather, it´s the frogged coton from the lace project . It´s the back and it´s done starting in the middle, adding on stitch at the beginning of each row and 2 stitches on eash side of the middlestitch, when the width is to measure I´ve knitted 2 stitches together at the beginning of each row. I like knitting on small needles, and it´s easy to knit and talk on the same time so I kind of enjoying it. The safety pin is marking for the neckline on the front, but I´m not there yet...

Safarijacket BWF 4/2006 # 124

In April´s Burda there where a collection in The PLUS range from Lucia and I liked both the jackets but wanted to start off with tha safari jacket
I liked the cut of this jacket so much and I had a suitable fabric in my stash so let´s go...
ooops! not enough fabric, lacking 20 cm ( 8 inches ) from wat it says in the magazine and you can see from the photo that there are not much left, and there´s a spot on that part too!



I thought over my options, less pockets? no but reminding me of a tip in treads saying using single layer layout I drew patterns of the pocket flaps and cuffs and placed them on the remaining piece of fabric avoiding the spot! and if I used the lining fabric for the pockets there are enought fabric!!



After marking the pockets I decided that I wanted the other side out so I removed the markings using fabric spot remover and a toothbrush and now some pieces are hanging in my shower drying. Then I´ll have to remark them
The story continues...

BWF pants 9/2004# 142

I liked the skirt with the great elastic waist so much that I just have to do the pants too with the hem treatment.
Me and stretch pants have not been on the same planet before due to seeing a lot of awful visions of what Tini calls the "muffin effect" or something like that. I bought my first pair of jeans with stretch earlier this week and then decided to tackle some fabric with stretch in them. The pants are great and here are some closeup on the details like the hem and the pintuck.
I got the fabric at the ugly fabric SWAP at PR weekend in Denmark last year so the pants cost me the thread and the elastic! The metall rings where salvaged from some other project