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...

Fingerless gloves

My not buying anything half year ( or maybe a year ) is doing great. I also started some project to use up all odd balls inspired by un old VK. Basically it´s cast on 180 stitches and knit using up all your yarns, I´ve done 20 cm ( 8( inches ) and are going to do it for almost 2 meters/ yards and then I´m going to knit around the edges and felt it a little. I´ve also done these fingerless mittens the upper is from a ball of cashmere yarn then some green sock yarn and two rows of burgundy sock yarn. The picot edge is croched before the knitting so there are basically no leftovers from the green yarn.
For this one I used a shetlandic wool/alpacka/silk yarn and then some Rowan felted tweed, some cherry flavored koolaid colored yarn for the picots and some pink mohair for the lower edge. The threads need to be wowen in so there are no hole in the pink edge.

Dress double

It would not bother me to show up at a party in the same dress as someone else. It would be strange though becourse I would probably sew my dress. Today I passed a photographer who was showing wedding photos in the window and two of the brides where wearing the same dress! So now I need to know if it was actually the same dress or two of a kind?...

Copenhagen

Spent yesterday in Copenhagen with Ann- Sofi and found a fabric for my spede and some velvet trims. Will take photo and show! The fabric was a remnant that was marked down 50 % at I think it´s called Sycenter at Rosengårdsgatan. The velvet trims to go with it was from Handleren and if you want to, you can buy the whole store as it´s for sale!!! We didn´t ask for the price as we where well aware of that if we owned it we where not being able to sell anything....
I didn´t take a lot of pics but these two outfits cought my eye as I likes both the clothes and the color.
We found the new yarnstore called Bette Design. If you are at Ströget turn left at Indiska if you are walking from the station and it´s on the left side. She has knitting cafées too...
Summerfuglen where as nice as ever.
The beer was good too!

Spede update

Body finished!

Lucky stars

A while ago I found a link for making these stars from paper at Elegant Musings. As I like the recycle thing I used a magazine and cut strips from using my rotary cutter. It´s a little bit addictive and very fast and with glossy paper the first knot is quite easy to do. The hard part is to take the photo!
Turn your head and look at the necklace made with cotton yarn and pearls. If I had a Christmas tree I would make garlands this way!

Caramell mittens

The yarn is from Östergötlands Ullspinneri and is called Karamell yarn. They have a working Spinning Jenny but I´m not sure if this yarn is spun on it. Crochet the easy way.

Spede update

39 cm

Challenge

I been thinking a lot lately about how much things we and I buy and then we have to buy smart storage for all our things, so I decided to challenge myself not to buy things for the next 6 months. I´m not going to buy any fabric, yarn, clothes, things for my kitchen. This includes magazines but not pantyhose and notions to be needed instantly.
I will not go naked and I will not be out of fabric and yarn.
A friend of mine challenged herself to a "five a day" clean the appartment. She got rid of five things a day ( goodwill, garbage, me ....)
My favourite band is going to release a new album in 11 days and I´m going to buy it becourse when I threw my TV out two years ago I said I would buy one CD/ month and I haven´t done that.

Skirt for Hanna

I made myself a skirt in this fabric earlier and had a remant left and asked my niece if she wanted a skirt in it and since she loves pink and purple... I used a very simple skirt and did a fold on the front piece inspired from a skirt I made earlier from an Onionpattern. Not beeing able to try it on I sewed the sideseams after the waist to simplify alteration
Her birthdayparty is tomorrow, and I known this for a while so why do I have to do this in the last minute?

Scarf from Fabel

The scarf in Fabel have been ready for a while and is nice to wear. The yarn looks much better here with 20 stitches than on a sock. Good project for selfstriping yarns

Onion goes Chanel

I don´t look so content but I am!. Here´s a back view:
and close up on the hem line with the chain:
Hood
Finally!!!!!!!!!!
I used an article in Treads about simplying the construction and it worked fine, but at the end I omitted putting bias tape around the armcycle and just used zig zag. The arma have facings in the quilted burgundy fabric, used the lower pattern part that could be done in a contrasting fabric.
I like this jacket a lot!

Seconda Ballerina

More wool

The variagated pink cardigan is frogged and the yarn has been soaked and is not this curly any more I finished my first Ballerina by Hanne Falkenberg
and the beautiful back
Looks much better wearing something nicer than these yogapants. The jacket now belongs to my mother who had her birthday last week This is a closeup on my Ballerina in a rusty red, orange and brown. Need to sew the seams under the arm that are the only seams on this jacket! Very clever design! and fun to knit!
Button still has to be replaced.
Spede update 27 cm ( armlevel)

Wool from "down under"

When I came to our latest SnB meeting a woman was unpacking yarn. Her name is Biggan and she was a knitwear designer here in Sweden 25 years ago before she moved to Australia. Now she´s back with her own yarnline. It´s a sooooft merino yarn in 64 colors. Did I say it was soft?
She sells it through her internetstore and here she is herself packing We convinced her to came back before she´s going back so we can buy her yarn so she wouldn´t have to bring it back with her.

Are we "up over" for the aussies????