Madli´s shawl

Madli´s shawl is blocked and finished



I really like these estonian lace shawls, but the tradition say that you knit the borders seperately and sew them on using kitheners stitch. Things like that has a tendancy to not be finished in my home so I pick up stitches and turn the chart upside down instead.
The shawls originate from Haapsalu in Estonia and was like Bohus knitting invented and knitted to provide an income. Haapsalu was a famous spa resort for the rich and famous southwest of Tallin. It´s also where I´m going on my summer vacation! ( After Paris last weekend of may...)
Then I might pack the "Triangulas summer shawl" that I´m working on the border right now. Beautiful lily of the valley pattern in white

Skirt from thrifted skirt

Hotpatterns had a free pattern ( via fabric.com) a 8 gore skirt with elastic waist and a simple hem, fast and easy. I bought a skirt in a thrift shop that was kind of dirndl style, lots of fabric that I used.
The skirt is really easy to sew and will look great in different fabrics, I´m thinking of adding pockets and making it into a six gore skirt, but not tonight, I´m knitting Estonian lace, a new one, the rusty one is finished and blocked and will be published one of these days

Calculating and knitting

25 grams and 48 cm

Estonian lace is fun, challenging aka nupps and beautiful

Cedar leaf shawlette

Jazz progress

Think Pink!

This picture was in the correct position when I uploaded it! So please turn your head!
It´s also Onion 2031, red chambray

I did the elastic both on shoulders and arms a little different and I have not ( yet...) added any thing Odd Mollyish to this

The button is the same as in Hannas X-mas blouse

I also started to knit a Cedar Leaf Shawlette, download from Ravelry, I´m using a cotton/ linen blend yarn

Onion 2031

I spent friday in Copenhagen and bought two of the latest Onionpatterns. This is one of them

Since my plan is to sew more denim I went to Stof och stil here in town and bought 10 oz denim that I turned into a dress, flatfelled seams and topstitching and it looks loke this:

It turned out to be a little to big at the neckline so I cut a V to take away some fabric. I think I would like to wash this before using it and after finishing it I went back for red chambray and I+ve almost finished a blouse too from this pattern.

OK I confess!

There´s been a sewing and handicraft fair this weekend and attended saturday: I actually worked for "sticka" the knitting assossiation in our booth where you could learn basic stuff or ask questions about almost anything. It was a really good fair! No scrapbooking, a lot of different shops attenting I´m showing one picture of a yarnstore, but there where shawls, yarns, fabrics, quilting, sewingmachines and you name it and I bought a shuttle for netting. I always say that I do anytheng exept netting but now I´ll give it a try...

I always liked kumihimo but thought the eqiupment being to expensive and tried some things using a paper disk. This variation is homemade and costs ca 150 crowns. OK I´m in!

If I bought anything? ....... of course I did! I bought yarn for 4 shawls, 2 of them handpainted one in brick and one in lilac from "fröken garn" a store in town that recently moved to new location shairing it with a pattern and fabric store... good combo!

Chanel 2.55 denim

Chanel 2.55

I´ve been obsessed with the Chanel 2.55 bag lately and decided to make one myself. I recearched through the internet and found some measurements and a lot of pictures, mostly fakes I guess... and Today I bought some chains, unfortunately not enought, so I have to go back tomorrow and I also have to go to my notionstore. These two store are in different parts of town....and I´m lazy!
I used denim and quilters cotton for the lining. The construction of the pocket is cool. There Coco kept her lipstic I´m keeping my cellphone

Wardrobe contest

PR is having a wardrobe contest and I´m gonna join! I might not finish it but that´s different thing...
My choise is these four fabric

and the cat supports my good taste

he also likes my riding boots, so good taste is a matter of taste

Anyway I´m planning to sew cargopants from the green fabric, a active wear kind of jacket from the offwhite texture fabric, a sleeveless top from the crinkled patterned fabric and a kind of drawstring top from the retropattern.

A good mileage

I´ve been knitting on the "Ballet" sweather for 2,5 years and now that I was seing the end of it I decidet that I did not like it, and deperately needed to practice my cast on skills I found the Hanne Falkenberg "Jazz" pattern ´what I thought was to much contrast

was now blending beatifully. The pattern is called mosaik knitting and you knit two rows in each color and as always with her pattern do as she says!

The cardigan is knitted in one piece from sleeve to sleeve and finishing bay making the cuffs

...and here´s number three!

Soaking

and drying

All good things are three

The second citron is finished, the weaving linen yarn ran out and the ruffle is in Drops safran


and then I couldn´t help myself...I bought a ball of variegated lace yarn and started a new one

Coolest bras in town

I can´t stop making bras! This one ha´s been visable in the widget to the right for a while. It´s inspired by the bra "Vivien" wears in the beginning of Pretty Woman but I used beige powernet to underline the band to give it structure and support and by covering it with lace I think it gives the illusion of skin

The second one is not finished yet, I need to send for a clousure from Elingeria. This is based on a kit from Kantjeboard and is exactly the same pattern as the black lace ( and as almost all the bras I sewed....

Latvian mitts finished and limewedge started

The latvian fingerless mitts ended up with fingers they became a regular mitt, if anything could be called regular in these color. A good thing we really have winter this year so I can use them.

I needed a "taxi" knitting and decided on another citrus and since I had this weaving yarn in 100% linen I casted on. The linen is not so very fast to knit with but the glow and the color are beautiful! I made 4 sections on the picture and my plan is to use all yarn. I have a simular yarn that I could use for the ruffle if I miscalculate

New Bohus sweather in my hands

I spotted it from outside yesterday and I really don´t know how this could have happened since the patterned yoke is really small and it was hanging on a rack packe with other knitted items.

It´s knitted from the bottom in the same shade like my tobacco but this one has a square neckline that is picked up and knitted as if it was round to make the yoke. At first I thought it was a Rimfrost but after checking at Solsilkes homepage they are simular but with another design.

The label is there

and the 3 buttons in the back

The quality of the knitting is so much better in this one than in the tobacco.

Cap shawl

I casted on for a "Cap shawl" from "Victorian lace" a circular shawl for ME-MOI-MIG

and at the beginning everything went well but then it was something wrong and I frogged parts of the knitting as learned from the Yarn Harlot

and reknitted it row by row

I´ve done this a couple of times already and will do it again tomorrow...
The yarn is alpacka from Isager ( didn´t buy enought, but hopefully there will be more at Summerfuglen next time I´m in Copenhagen)

Fika with Filippa

We swedes really know how to "fika" Fika means having coffee and we drink a lot of coffee...I think only finland drinks more. You can´t enter a swedish home without get the question if you want coffee before you take your shoes of ( onother habit of ours)

When I grew up the coolest thing you could have was jeans from "Gul och Blå" ( Yellow and blue as in the swedish flag) and I can recall trying to duplicate the topstitching of their jeans in my early sewing days, especially the Marilyn jeans front pockets with a little point with a button on was my favourite. The company does not excist any more but their daugter grew up and became a designer too. She owns the label Filippa K and as a "sidekick" she does china and I collect the espresso mugs. There are ordinary coffeemugs and bowls too. Not only are the shape of the mugs super, there are new patterns coming out, the one to the right are from last year and are inspired by the charms of a bracelet and my favourite the netted lace to the right are so beautiful and looks so much better on the smaller cups. There´s also a net like tuille as well as some more grafic designs