The Myrtle

I started on my next Bohus that I will knit from scratch, even the yoke. I´m doing the Myrtle that is a quite new kit in green shades and are based on The egg. The designs is growing row by row and millimeter by millimeter and is absolutely stunning. The photo does not do the colors justice! ( that sentence works in swedish...)
Bohus patterns are different from other stranded work not only by the purl stitches but the patterns are not in "wedges" and would look very strange if using different colors on the yarn instead of the shades that where used. The yarn is a delight to knit and the purl stitches makes it easier for me to get the right tension and hold the loose treads at the right lenght, maybee becourse I have to knit slower. I loose track of time knitting this!

Bohus Tobacco progress report

I´ve reknitted the body due to gauge and size and are now working on the second sleeve, aka the last sleeve. Have to decide on button bands...

Think Pink!

I´ve had an idea for a while!
Since october is breast awarness mounth why don´t everybody knit their own pink scarf in september to wear through october. You can use any yarn and any pattern as long as it´s pink. I even started some kind of discussion on Ravelry about it, since I havn´t done much there I´m not sure I did iy on the proper place.
Wearing your own pink scarf will of course not stop you from buying the pink ribbon or donate money in another way for research!

Lingerie again

This is turning into a "brablogg" but I´ve enjoyed sewing them and for the first time in my life underwear are not the limiting thing in my wardrobe...you know the thing that when you are out of them you have to do laundry

I dyed the fabric myself, it should have been red but that what happenes when you dye synthetic stuff. Anyway the bra is really comfy and by underlining it with powernet the color has been toned down. I made the bows myself with a little ribbon and a flower from yardage

I named the set the "Fanta" set.

Gudrun Sjöden

Gudrun Sjöden is a swedish designer that has a very personal style. She´s inspired by traditional clothing and textiles and this year the winter collection is TDF!
There are some blouses with embroidery on the arms that I´m gonna try to copy and some linen dresses not to speak of the cardigans. If you´re not into folkloric clothes she has a basic collection with good quality knitwear in very special colors.
I have some pieces from her that I like to use in a more toned down style and also some basics like black t-shirt. Go to her homepage and take a look!

Sami bracelets

I really love all things handmade and if I don´t love it I can always appretiate the workmanship and the historical aspect of it.
In the north of Sweden lives the Sami people. They have their own language, their own traditional songs; the "jojk" and they still raise reindeers even though some of them are teachers, doctors and lawers. One of their traditional "crafty skill" is the making of pewter tread embroidery. Wired pewter tread are braided and sewed onto reindeerskin and made into bracelets, bags and a lot of other things. Of course I had to try this so I bought a kit a couple of years ago and made this bracelet. The button is from the horn of the reindeer.
The other day I found an add in english Elle about a company that sells clogs and sami bracelet, not only in traditional natural and black leather but pink, green etc so when in Copenhagen today I passed a store that sells leather as I had so many times before...but today I entered! I found a piece of pink suede that I will make me one more bracelet of, this time in pink! I also found the largest collection I have ever seen on studs, cabinhooks ( I bought one in shape of a heart )and buckets for belts, wristlets in whatever size and shape you could imagine

Bohus knitting

I decided to do something about the bohus and I decided to knit a hole one too so I contacted solsilke and asked about the new kit; the myrtle and about my bohus. The pattern on my sweather is called "tobacco" and she sells yarn separately for the body, not the yarn for the yoke. The yarn is a wonderful angora/merino blend and when I knit it it I don´t get that weird color that I recall the sweather had before frogging.

The yoke is a little felted so I have to use my mathematic skills here. There are 448 stitches on the finished yoke. The new knitting has a different gauge so I start by knitting two stitches together every 5 and 4 stitch and then I divide the stitches for arms and front and back using some kind of percentage.

The bohus sweathers where knittet on two sticks and sewed together; I do the knitting on circular needles but as for a raglan like the original. I use the Myrtle pattern as a reference.
Yesterday I went to look at an open garden in the next town ( Lund) The garden belongs to one of our wellknown chefs and his mother who is an author has written a book about the garden and the house ( Maryhill by Lotte Möller )
The Garden is open a weekend each summer and they serve the most wonderful Kakbuffé cockiebuffé with coffea the or whatever you like to drink and as much of it.
And Yes! I ate it all!

PR Designer Knock Off Contest

I´m going to enter the Designer knock off contest on PR and I´m knocking off this blouse:

with this beautiful back

but I´m planning to use this sleeve from a dress in the same collection

I have some eggshell cotton that´s been washed and some very delicate cotton laces, actually much nicer than original...and I´m planning to use Carol Laflin Ahles book and her tecniques to attach the laces etc. So I might enter the blouse in the new tecnique contest too.

Wellsoaked

She´s a beauty!

Sugar sweather finished

I spent a couple of days my parents house really doing nothing but knitting and visiting a fabricstore, a fleamarket and going to the local knittingcafé that´s in a yarn store and yes I bought some yarn too!

I finished this one, even blocked it. I´m especially fond of the neckline. I was going to make a wide neckline but it became to wide so I did a sideways neckline shaping it with the help of short rows and a Hanne Falkenberg edge

The Geilsk teal top is finished too and soaking, tecnically this was not an UFO but it´s finished anyway.

Well almost...

UFO pile finishing project

I decided it was time to do something about my big UFO knitting and crochet pile. This I had under the coffee table

It´s a beautiful cotton aran lace sweather that I knitted 3 ( three ) years ago and that will be sewed together. There´s also the ballet sweather started last summer. Needs to be sewed together to calculate how long the sleeves need to be knitted.
There´s also the "sugar" sweather. I have an excuse here due to lack of the thin dark alpackayarn that I needed to go to Copenhaguen to buy.

And this is a huge pile there we find the crochet cardigan

I will get the dark pink linen yarn that´s missing tommorow

There are crocheted cuffs that I just had to try...

There are also:
Vivian Hoxbo shrug
Hanne Falkenberg Mermaid
Crochet scarf in a blue silk yarn
The cotton bag a la Odd Molly
There are also on another place
2 spede sweathers
and I just found the most beautiful Bohus sweather...

Walk on the wild side

If someone havn´t noticed I´m into making lingerie these days...I´ve been wearing a very nice white bra today but this one is so cool. This is the kind of thing that´s hard to find in my cupsize.
There are two different weights of powernet supporting the fabric. The fabric is actually from Stof och Stil. Powernet from Handler and Elingeria there I also bought the elastics, The lace is from Handler too.

Geilsk

I spent monday in Copenhagen and did not intend to buy any yarn. That was of course before I visited Summerfuglen....
Geilsk is new to me but they had some samplers in the store and I bought this one in teal

and I want this one too

Jalie Sweetheart top and panties

I´m not sure about the fabric due to age; being over 10 I mean but maybee with the proper styling ...or I can always use it as a PJ

Panties again

The fabric is a recycled top that I got stains on and some stretchlace; the wide from the stach and the narrow one from Stof och stil

Vacation

I started my vacation today and on monday I´m taking the train over to Copenhagen and on tuesday I´ll be off for Celle for three nights, walking the streets, visiting the Sampler museum ( a plan for the last 15 years )some bordershopping on the way home and some more shopping and some beer, I think you get the plan! Oh yes and some knitting.
I´ve started a few things lately, a mermaid jacket by Hanne Falkenberg, a cardigan in Crochet from Drops and some cuffs in crochet.
I´ve also started to participate in a lingerie sewalong and have perfektet a bra but are waiting for more supplies by mail, No I will not show you a picture on that! but you can see the panties I made:


I bought the Jalie jeans pattern and I also bought a beige stretch twill to make a pair from and that will be a vacation project, the weather is quite chilly for june so no plans for the beach yet

Knitting will support Obama

My Obama tomato plant needed support. I used what I had on hand

Come bake with me!

Visit my kitchen and bake with me!

Karin goes Karin blouse finished

Remember the Odd Molly Blouse:

Well I spent the morning sewing and it´s so much easier then you already made one blouse or at least almost ...even though this pattern is extremely easy to sew! I did not do the drawstring thing and that will made it a little more difficult.
This is not inspired by this is copying:

Detail of sleeve:

I´m so lucky that I have food in the fridge to re heat now

Mini wardrobe sew along

I decided to join the Mini wardrobe sew along on PR. I chosed the sewalong instead of the competition becourse it´s already mid May and I´m going on a long weekend to Poland next weekend. I´m going on a spa thing to Gdansk.
The rules for the miniwardrobe is that you should pick an orphan from your closet and make a wardrobe for it. 4 thing and it should work together etc etc...
This is my orphan! It´s an Onion 1036 jacket and the reason it became an orfhan is that the color is a cross between burgundy and purple and doesn´t go with my purple nor my burgundy stuff.

My first item in the sewalong is the Karin goes Karin blouse. I bought lace becourse the first one I colored wasn´t enought and then I bought a new lace becourse I wasn´t really satisfied with the second one. This last one is colored too. I also got a striped trim for the sleeves and I´m using this Burda 2975 pattern in size 36-38 and it is still a little too big for me. Hey I could use a size 0 with this sizing!... I´m working on another blouse right now using this pattern. My plan is to iron the crinkling out of the fabric, cut it and when finished spray it with water and the crinkling will appear again and make the blouse slightly smaller. This might be an OOP pattern.

The second item is a skirt using Onion 3020 in the same fabric. My plan here is to use the smallest size and cut 10 pieces instead of 8 and put elastic in the waist
The third item is this McCall 5586 in a kind of slinky burgundy knit. I think I go with view C so I can wear a proper bra under. I might even make in longer to a tunic

The last item is this wrap pants Onion 4010 in the striped flowery fabric in viscose. I´m not making them full lenght, I´m doing what in Denmark is called "sock pants" a good explaination!

And then we came to the fabrics: from the left; pants, blouse and skirt with lace and trim for blouse and the the burgundy knit for the top

But I actually gonna finish the peasanttop I´m working on right now first and then I have to decide if the mikromacrame dress is going to be a tunic instead...