Bathroom update

The guy who is going to install the toilett, zink and shower is coming tomorrow morning so it´s almost done now.

New scarf

I had 200 grams of a beautiful variagated teal wool yarn from Helylle. I was supposted to knit a scarf with buttonholes in it and then felt it. After trying 3 times and not liking it I decided that that scarf and me was not gonna happen!
So when leaving for Reims I decided to knit the scarf from last Knitty but after a while I decided that I wanted that scarf but not in that yarn, so now the scarf is almost knitted in another very easy lacepattern from a french knitting magazine.
For this pattern I have a red sock yarn from PR weekend in Kiel.

More snoop shopping in Reims

I saw a lot of layered skirts. This one is not layered but I liked it!

and I bought 4 t-shirts

Snoop shopping in Reims

It´s cute, It´s 75 euro, It´s for kids, It´s Kenzo, It can be easily adapted...
and I have a yarn to do it in...

Mikaela´s scarf

This scarf was hanging next to Mikaela´s jacket at the stable today. Cute!

Advent calender

In Sweden we are obsessed with advent calenders! If you unfamiliar with it it´s about open a windowbox on a piece of paper and find a picture behind. We have calenders on TV. Rather short episods made for children, could be X-masy but don´t have to. After each episode, you open the windowbox and find a picture of someting that occured in the episode. There´s always a debate on how good this years calender is and is it better than "teskedsgumman" the teaspoonlady, It´s a book about a lady who shrunk to the size of a teaspoon when she got stressed. I think this was the calender of 1968 or something.
Today you can buy calenders with chocolate ( they usually contains some nuts without it beeing said so, so there´s always some allergic kid that has to go to the ER.) Every newspaper has one as do every team of soccer, hockey, tennis, ski and you name ... and you can win very nice prices becource there´s a number in each windowbox. Lately every parent ( who want to be a good parent ) have to make one for there kid that contain small gifts like rubber, pen and other small items, you can even buy these small rubbish in packs of 24.
Why am I writing about this in mars?
My friend Anna found this knitted scarf advent calender at a swedish yarnsite and it was publishes daily during december, Anna knitted the entire scarf. I had 100 g of a single ply wool and started going on as long as the yarn lasted. It lasted half way through dec 15...
I have som nice pics of it while blocking but blogger is not cooperative tonight so that will be a later post

Rhiannons cardigan

Rhiannon´s cardigan is ready and with Rhiannon.
I feel like I start a lot of project and sometimes I finish some of them.
I decided that I can start as many as I like as long as I don´t buy yarn or fabric.
Currently I´m working on my blue hoodie ( maybee 5 inches left on the second arm), my spede ( I´m actually bringing that with me to France) I started and finished an advent calender scarf, the yarn lasted to the 15th. I might block that one today.
I also started to produce wristlets or cuffs ( muddar ) from single balls of alpacka and sockyarn.
I also decided that I should try to locate my two-ball mohair sweater that I knitted like 8 rows on before putting it away.
Today I´m gonna volonter at a local horse jumping event so knittingtime will be limited and tomorrow someone is coming to move the drain ( ??) in my soon to be beautiful bathroom!
A lot of dust! ( as if someone should notice a difference...)

Embroidery workshop/café

At Helylle in Kristianstad, Eva has started embroidery workshops on sundays, it´s 4 sundays during spring and this was the second. For 3 hours we sewed, talked, drank coffe and ate candy.
My parents live outside Kristianstad and we had salubrated my brothers birthday on saturday so I spent time here before going home.
This shop is so nice, a lot of nice yarn, house designs with kits, a lot of things to show.
I was sewing on my wool embroidery from Scania ( Skånskt yllebroderi) We have a trdition here in sweden that we have typical embroidery in different areas of the country. I grew up in Blekinge and they do oriental flowers and birds inspired from imported china in pastels in cotton and linen on linen fabric. Skåne where I live now have these folkart patterns made in wool. These two tecniques are actually the same, when you make satin stitches you do it in a way that you don´t fill the back of the fabric. A way to save thread!
There are other samples of these local traditions and I will take some pictures to show you later. Actually if you are familiar with these traditional patterns you can find some of them at IKEA. Katarina Brieditis who has made a lot of stuff for IKEA ( as well as other ) are very inspired by old swedish craft traditions

Shabby chic

before....

...during.....

Bath room redecoration

No! I did not do this I´m only paining it
but I will have to find a darker hue. The cupboard is from a shop called "Byggfabriken" that sells old fashioned thing like victorian tiles, bathtubs, switchboards and doorknobs from different eras and a lot of other things

Stash knitting 2

The purple mohair scarf is knitted!
The green one is almost done, I need a little more yarn and I lent it to a fellow knitter and hopefully get some back on Tuesday.
It´s been interested to knit I never started with the small border, picked up stitches from it knitted the scarf and ended it knitting the second smallborder at the same time as closing off the knitted scarf.
I also weaved in yarn on 4 ( four ) socks yesterday!!!!!!! more to go!

Frost cardigan

I like this book, It´s danish from birth but translated into swedish I made this skirt in purple before, of course it´s not quite finished...I need to buy additional teal yarn for the picots and have not decided if I´m allowed to do that yet
I´ve been looking for this hoodie cardigan for a long time and now it´s a WIP
Closeup at the lace pattern called frost. It´s a little difficult to begin with but after a few rippings I now got the hang of it...
...as you can see!
It looks like I´m using the original yarn but mine is called "Extra" and is a superwash from Schachenmayr bought at PR weekend Kiel.

Finished ( it does happened )

Wristlet warmer or cuff

Remnant of teal opal sockyarn and a pattern from yll och tyll a yarnshop in Uppsala. Finished and need to be sewed together ( as do a lot of other things too!)

Champagne for easter

I ´m going to Reims 3 nights this easter. Airplane to Paris and then train from Gare DÉst. Going to walk, knit and read at cafées, drink some champagne ( at least try if they taste better without transportation ) I might eat some cakes, pink cookies, chocolate and enjoy myself. I don´t intend to shop but ......

Cardigan for Rhiannon

When I saw that Rhiannon had arrived I decided to make this classic swedish vintage cardigan. It´s from a book that was published 1950. The book was written by a committee from the governement. At that time 97% of all childrens clothes where homemade and the purpuse of this book and the work of the committee was to simplify this task This cardigan is knitted from front to front in short row technique to shape the yoke
and cuff
I think it´s cute and it will grow with the child to. I knit in cotton, I think that´s a good choise for babies
The faitful companion...

Pilgrim

I love Pilgrim jewellery, especially the old one´s with lot of crystals and "bling bling". This necklace and bracelet ( lower) are part of a set with earrings I bought at Illum in Copenhagen for 100 danish crowns, that would be cheap only for the earrings! But unfortunately things broke. The pic is blurry but the hanging flower from the necklace ( upper) is missing a petal so I took the flower from the bracelet Then I removed one more petal from it and glued it to the flower to the right of the girl ( no! it´s not me and it´s not my granny! ) and pronto. I have an even more blurrier picture of the finished items!

Stash reduction knitting

Since I´m not allowed to buy any yarn I use what I have. I got some purple mohair from Drops/Garnstudio. I bought 3 balls from a basket at Summerfugeln probably last summer. I started to crochet a collar from I think "Scarfstyle" but didn´t really like it becourse the yarn didn´t let the pattern show off. This means I´m frogging mohair at he same time as I´m knitting! I´ve done better things... Anyway, I saw a nice scarf in a magazine called "Lantliv" Country Living and it was a wide grey straight knitted and then the fringes used a lot of different trimmings in silk and velvet as well as some yarn, so I thought I could use all my purple trims for this project....Hmm...It seams ´like I´m lacking for some reasons purple trims. anyway I frog and finish knitting it and when we´ll see...
This is a yarn I bought for making a Shetlandic lace scarf but the yarn that is Kauni does not show off the lace so I ripped it!
Then I started on onother lacescarf from Meg Swanson´s lace book and same thing here, so I ripped it! and now I´m making basically that scarf but whit only the scalloped edge and it´s a nice thing to knit becourse you can talk at the same time and I like it a lot! Some day in the future I will make myself a lace scarf, but not in this yarn

UFO on the way

OK let´s take some buttons add it on the sleeves
and then some beads
work under progress
not the best place to sleep but at least he´s not messing around

PR Kiel jacket UFO

This is my UFO jacket. I made a collar instead of the hood ( surprise since I´m a hoddie girl ) I will have yo finish tha back seam of the collar

(I mean that I will have to finish the back seam of the collar, that sounds like a rapper )

and add some bias tape to the seam that attaches the wide band and collar piece and some more embellishment. I stopped sewing when Stoff and stil was out of the correct color of velvet trim. I´m thinking of adding a cluster of buttons and beads to the arms, and remove tha cat´s hair...