Good book

I bought this book at "Summerfuglen" that´s probably the nicest yarnshop i Copenhagen. The book is written by Inga Walloe Pantzar and Ditte Larsen who is the owner of Summerfuglen ( The name means butterfly in english )
This scarf/collar is knitted in Rowans felted tweed and I´ve almost finished mine. I´m using satin ribbons and pearls instead of leather an onion bullets
Isn´t this page cool!!!
The books ISBN is 13:978-87-567-8066-7 or 10:87-567-8066-4
Buy it!!!

Promenade

I never took a photo of the finished scarf. Here it is! A little big for this little girl who is my niece Hanna. Warm and cosy and can be wrapped different ways. Here´s the backview:

Copenhagen again

I love the bags of Jane Burchard. These where showcased at a coffee shop. We are still in Copenhagen and Jane Burchard´s shop is on Köpmagergade 7 next to Illum. There´s a webpage that´s not up yet. The adress will be janeburchard.com
The coffee was great too!!

Copenhagen

It´s empty in the lowest basket. I bought that yarn. Like both the cardigan and the dress. The shop is called Uldstaedet or something simular it means the wool place

Recycling pants at work

I read a lot of blogs and really need to work on my link section. One of the blogs I read is elegant musing and there I found a link to this page that has been my obsession since and inspired me to do samething with these old pants using whatever I could find. Not my pants are for nspiration only at work.
Next week is easter holiday!!! Thinking of making something for myself. My Debbie Bliss sweather are making progress; I started on the sleeves yesterday, and I´m making a bag in croched, inspired by The happy hooker, no picture yet!

Love me love my shoes

I spent an hour in Västra hamnen ( west harbour ) a part of the city build for an exibition in 2001. In winter windy, in summer as Cinderella would say; absolutely wonderful! We are talking boardwalk, restaurants, coffea, icecream, bath, beer etc etc and shopping. My favourite place to buy shoes are there callad Ilse Jacobssen. Sells a very good selection of clothes too! The first pair was on sale 50% off and the second new for the season!

Lovikka mittens

Lovikka is a place in northern Sweden and they have been making their traditional mittens for a long time until recently then they have to let the business down due to cheap import. This is not a true Lovikka, they are knitted in a yarn simular to thick lopi and usually in white or grey. These are made of regular thick wool yarn using knitting needles no 5 and some leftovers for the embroidery

Mittens with roses

Mittens from a recycled sweather and some alpacka for roses and edge, the roses have som pearls in the center too and are from an article by Nicki Epstein in Vogue knitting

Cuffs are finished!

This is a very rare post here on my blog; a finished item, but yes they do exist! but not to wear with that sweather

Aran cotton

Since I´m frogging onother project, this count as working UFOs. The pattern is from Debbie Bliss but knitted in onother yarn and omitting muches or whatever they are called...
Some of the patterns are challengeing but I got it now! It will take time but I´m in no hurry I have other project to work on if I get bored.

Cuff no 1

It´s very popular in Sweden to knit cuffs and wear as wristlets, very warm and cosy. I bought alpacka from Drops last week and used pearls tone on tone from Stof and Stil that I already had in my stash. I got the pattern from a woman at my knitting group and like the result very much, will string the pearls for the next one today. It´s knitted on sticks 2,5. I bought Vivaldi yarn in a dark forest green for a sweather too. Only 2 balls for the entire sweather on needles no 9!

New patterns from Onion

I want, I want, I want and I also want those fabrics!!!!
http://www.onion.dk/

more FO

I´ve finished the top in lime and blue with the flowers. I might use this if it´s really warm and I have a nice tan.
I also finished the striped blue skirt, goes to charity
I finished the orange top from BWF with 3/4 arms and the front in 5 pieces and I love it! Going to put a review on PR for it.
The stripy bag is also done!
Now I´m working on the burgundy skirt in the linen fabric from Paris and I have the hem and some handsewing around the yoke to do.

A hard days work

The table runner turned into a Halloween table runner and one of tableclothes has been emroidered with dragonflies, the other got some strange embroidery so I will sent it to the bin.
























And I also finished the buttons of my jeans jacket and did some hemming to but didn´t finish anything more

last UFO:s

Socks I guess from "knitting vintage socks" and the sweather are making progress. I still hav my coat and I still don´t know what to the with the extra-mistake-buttonhole.
And now I intend to sew!!

almost done

Probably my oldest UFO a sweather knitted in 11 shades from purple to orange, need to finish the turtleneck and some sewing







And then there´s a top that needs hemming and a beachbag that needs sewing

...more...

A bag in crochet that´s been felted need handles









A kind of fake wrap pants with elastic waist in a sari got at ugly fabric swap at PR weekend in Copenhagen













A windbreaker jacket with a lot of pockets and zippers

Home dec!!!

This is a project I started when I got my Viking no 1 + long time ago. The tea/coffea cups are supposted to turn over the squares and every one would have some written words to to with coffea or tea. When I accedently put one cup upside down...
I don´t care about that any more. I think it´s a cute tablecloth and deserves to be finished!
























The two white table clothes needs to have the lace finished at a corner and then added some embroidery. I did these about 10 years ago with easter embroidery and sold them. The runner I can´t recall doing, but there are treads pulled out so I´m going to use my wing needle and hem it and add some embroidery











And quilts don´t count!

..and shirts

These are the sleeves of a very basic blouse and the red wrinkled pile is a silk blouse from the same pattern. Where is the rest of the white blouse??

...yes and there are jackets too

Here´s a jacket in a beautiful wool bouclé, bought in Rome a long time ago and made into an UFO a long time ago too. It´s a BWF pattern from 6- 7 years ago and I knitted the collar using mohair yarn and a string with sequenses in blue and pink. I also knitted cuffs but didn´t like them so when the sewing stopped, but I´m planning on adding cuffs in the fabric. I like this one and I like the blue lining













The red jeans jacket needs buttons and I have them and think it´s been that way for a year

even more...

This is a Onion jacket from a stretch twill.
Below are a BWF safari jacket with a very strange color on the photo. I need to do the pockets again and I´m not sure I´ll finish this jacket. I might do it in a brighter fabric. It´s a Lucia model from last summer I think, really cute!
The green flyfabric is a Amy Butler bag, don´t recall the name of it. It´s a upholstery remnant.

and yes! there are more!

This one I´m not sure I´ll ever wear but it only needs one seam on machine and that´s the hem of course! This is a kind of skirt I made quite often a couple of years ago, its basically a tube that are turned doubled in front to form a fake wrap and added a seperat elastic waistband. Very easy and fast. This one is lined and I´m not a blue person


Here´s a grey skirt from BWF that needs finishing the hem, pockets and a waist treatment. It has a seperating zipper that zippes from the waist. It´s very short but maybee with dark hosery. The green one is also from BWF and is decorated with Onion transfers. The skirt has wents front and back that was strange so I redrew them. Needs zipper and waist treatment and maybee some pearls on the transfers and the iron of course!

...and more

Orange very nice top from BWF that needs hemming and a neckline band and the black pile is a jeans jacket in black thai silk, it´s partly sewed

...and more skirts

A straight skirt from BWF. It goes with the trouble-sleeve-cap-jacket and after seeing an straight skirt from Onion being embellished with onion transfers I used my embroidery unit to create this, needs zipper, lining, hemming and waist treatment. ( have I written that before??)











This is really a beatiful skirt. It´s 10 gores and a rounded waist facing ( not the proper word) and it´s made in a linen bought in Paris two years ago it has red weft and green warp or the other way around and yes it needs zipper, waist treatment and hem.

...and more

Wow, now it takes two!
This is a skier that needs a hem, but I´m going to make a new skirt out of it and remove the elastic waist. The fabric is bought at Anna-Modeller that is a wellknown swedish manufacture. and it looks like it´s heavy from a distance but it´s really lightweight and nice to your skin. The original plan was to add borders of passmantier bands at the hem . I´m not sure what they are called in english.











And this is a dark blue A-line BWF skirt that I´ve made a lot of times, this one has a nice pocket and I thought it was ready, needs hemming, zipper, lining and waist treatment.
And an iron!!