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

I made pants!

I only show the closeup. The photo of me in the mirror looks odd. I used a BWF pattern 2006/ 05 no 134 that I added lenght in the legs to and made a draw string waist. I saw a simular pair in town last summer and I´m so glad that I finally have these pants. I´m also glad that I´m back in business, tomorrow I´m gonna go down to the basement and cut out a jacket and a skirt. I have to show you what it look like in "my" basement. The room I use for cutting is a mangel room. A mangel is a giant machine that due to pressure makes your linen and sheets wrinklefree instead of ironing. Here´s 2 pics:

I made a skirt!

Sewing has been down here for a while, now mostly due to heat.
I bought a linen remnant at Stof och Stil in charcoal and found a nice skirt in BWF 6/2006 but decided to use the upperpart from the skirts I made earlier and blogged about. The skirt looks like this

The hem has a nice swing but after trying it on I feel that it´s not 100% linen and it feels to warm right now. I also feel that you can´t see the cut even though I topstitched it. It´s actually more visable on the photo than in real life. Now I want to make a jacket with a lot of detail but not in this heat...

Copenhagen

These bags are one of the things I was druling over today as I spent the day in Copenhagen, these big bags costs about 350 dollars/ 2500 kronor. I also bought lace and lingerie fabric, silk yarn and a bra and panties from a lingerie store called Change there it´s normal to wear over a D cup and at affordable prices and the cute stuff in the big cupsizes too!
I feel I need to organize my sewing area, it´s not only the wheather that keeps me from sewing, and my bathingsuit is falling apart in front of my eyes due to clorine and salt and I know I have a piece of swim suit fabric somewhere...
Tomorrow it´s SnB!

Gathering of lace 3

I´m totally in love with this book!

I knitted a sampler of the lace for the v-neck cardigan and have done som recalculating so now I´m off to buy yarn. I´m gonna make the edges in a contrast color to make it a little Odd Molly

Gathering of lace 2

I love this book!!!!
I had to start a shawl yesterday. I´m making the feather and fan shawl and using a recycled red yarn and I choosed this pattern becourse I felt that I could end it anytime if I´m out of yarn.
Next I´m gonna make a tablecloth from offwhite cotton and there´s clothes in it too. I have to buy this book!

Gathering of lace

I went to the library today and found "A gathering of lace". It´s a beautiful book and after the library I went down to the shore, had lunch and looked thrugh my books an thought I recognized the Spanish peacock shawl!
The pattern are the same as the one my great grandmother knitted but she had a different middle section! Maybee it´s avery common and international pattern but I think it´s kind of fun

samples

I have been knitting and sewing but nothing is really progressing. The sarisilk scarf is basically ready but need to be embellished.
We have a clothing company here in Sweden called Odd Molly their adress is www.oddmolly.com and they have very nice jackets in crochet and of course I don´t want to pay what they charge in the shops when I can do it myself, but I have to find the perfect pattern so I borrowed a book called "Encyclopedia of crochet" and trying the different patterns in it. I also have to decide on the perfect color, I´m not a pastell girl. I like the teal, maybe with beige or purple.