Flea market find

I found this sweather on a flea market today for 35 crowns, thats about 7 dollars. The condition is really good and it´s cotton and it was wery close to what I was looking for ( how often does that occur?) The reason why I was looking was these picks from, yes of course Odd Molly

It can happen, or at least something simular

Onion goes Odd Molly

I had this pattern Saw this skirt ( Odd Molly )
Made me do this skirt
Detail
and this skirt


and I already found a brocade to make a more look a like skirt

Tiara

I know it´s not i tiara but when I pass the mirror and see the light reflect in the crystals I feel like Cinderella! I love the clothes of Odd Molly ( oddmolly.com)! They have cool croched and knitted as well as fabric clothes and this hair piece... inspired me to do this, it was a quick project, same left over yarn, a remnant of lace and some glue- on- crystals. Take a look att Odd Molly! There are at least two blouses to be bought through Anthropologie, link at right.
There where also a belt just like the tiara. What time is it??

Maren scarf

This crochet scarf is from Romantic country strik and is made in Rowan felted tweed in the book, I didn´t have enough of the first yarn but found a match in the pink. They are both Mohair

Noro scarf with buttons

The yarn inside is Noro Ganpi abaka surabu it´s a paper/ viscose yarn and the other yarn is Lino in linen/ cotton ( maybee some viscose ) knitted together , 30 stitches on stitches 6 mm for as long as the yarns last

After finishing I added buttons after an idea in Romantic country strik
You just have to buy this book!
Yarn and idea from Summerfuglen

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??