Latvian (fingerless) mittens

I borrowed Veronik Avery´s "Knitting classic style" from the library and fell in love...
There are a lot of nice things in this book and my first project is the fingerless mittens that I make into full mittens. It´s strange going through the pictures becourse I think it´s the first time I´m knitting something from a book in the "correct" colors.
I have a huge stash of basic 2 stranded wool in a lot of colors and the cuff here does not take many yards...
The body of the mitten will be very warm due to the stranded tread on the back and the colors are suprisingly strong and beautiful. I´m not much of a fair isle knitter but this is fun. I already ordered one mor book from the library on russian mittens. We have a swedish tradition on knitting mittens to and I have very nice patterns from the island of Gotland that I might bring out.
I´m graduating from school on wednesday this week and are going on vacation thursday friday and I´m going to spend both days in Copenhagen, doing some shopping, and visit an exebition at the castle there danish designers show work influensed by Queen Margerete´s clothes. The photo of the webpage looks very promising take a look here There´s a link at the end of the page to the photos.
At this museum that is at the royal castle there´s an entrance fee of 60 dkr and also an additional fee of 20 dcr if you want to take pictures... I never seen this before.

Citron is soaking

The color is not very citrusy but the yarn is a wunderful danish mohair merino blend

FO

Fetching

My tam

that once looked like this after blocking disaster
and my beautiful Marywarmers that matches the tam

and yesterday I started on a Citron ( like everybody else....)

Vintagesonika

I came across an article in a danish magazine about these two women; mother and dauther that collect and sell vintage dresses and accessoires. They have a homepage Go there!

Strawberry mousse

Time for some underwear again. The color is really more pink than these picture will show

I used 2 patterns for the bra; Danglez 4 for the cups and Danglez 7 for the band. The lace trim on the band is inspired from a couple of RTW that I have

and I continues to play with the lace on the panties that I used an Ottobre pattern for. Lingeriefabric and lace is really easy and fun to play with. You just sew it on using a narrow zig zag and cut of the fabric after.

I like contrast so I decided to use burgundy bows to finish it off

Trouble with blocking

I knitted a tam in red sockyarn that I bought at PR weekend Kiel and it should be blocked using a plate. I thought I needed a little bigger plate than recommended and put it on a glass so it should dry easier.........
I had to mend two holes befor wearing it!

What´s up for 2010?

New year New start.
My plans for this year is:

Lingerie
Denim sewing and distressing
Basic and not so basic shirts
Make myself nice summer work clothes
Going to Copenhaguen for more knittingcafée knitting
Finishing a few knitting projects
Chanel 2.55 sewing

Blouse for Hanna

Since I´m very sure that my niece does not read this blog I´m showing you her X-mas present:

It´s made from quilters cotton and white pique for the bib. accents in hot pink

I´m especially fond of the buttons in light pink.

They are sew-in but are very simular to these old ones that I have three of and treasure a lot

Lace style

I borrowed "Lace style" at the library and must admit that I can see muself making most of the things in it. I started with the "Peek-a-boo Cloche" using Drops alpacka.
After finishing it I started a black hat for a fellow classmate who never been in a yarn store before...

Sewing is down at the moment. There are really no time for it when I´m only home for the weekend. But I bought a really nice fabric that I might make a skirt for Christmas from.
I´m also droiling over Cool Couture and Shirtmaking...

Brown skirt in denim

This dark pic shows my latest skirt, it´s a copy from a Knipmode but I simply slashed my basic skirt pattern that originally was Burda 8890, it´s probably OOP.
Brown denim from the remnant table at Stof och Stil, invisable zip and white topstitching

Mette skirt

It has taken a long time to get this skirt finished, but since Paris my urge to sew has increased.
In Denmark there´s a fabricshop chain called stof2000 and they have their own patternline called "100 % homemade" the models have names in across stitch-kind-off-logotype so it took me a long time before I actually decided to try one of their patterns out. My choise was Mette

Mette is a six gore skirt with the backpanel devided into two to place a zipper in the back.
I bought the teal stretch corduroi with jeans in mind but changed my mind ( that´s why you have a stash, isn´t it? ) during part of the looong sewingtime I had teal lint all over the appartment

The skirt is nice a little heavy but looks good with boots and are easy to ride a bike wearing it. I actually liked the pattern so much that I made a second skirt a lot faster using parts of bad jeanstrial and leftover fabric. It´s not ready in this pic but has became a favourite since jeans go with everything.

I am now working on a brown jeansskirt inspired by a knipmode model and green jeans using the Jalie pattern but with a lot of changes some due to less stretch in my fabric som due to they don´t use my body to draft their patterns from...

Paris fabric shopping

No! I did not buy this, it´s the ugly fabric from the swap

This is also a ugly fabric that did not make it to the swap, gift from Annika

This one I love! It´s silk that I plan to use for a dress/tunic style. It has little purple accents in it that I don´t think the photo really shows

Jersey i meter in a square with border, a sleeveless top for summer

Cotton with both structure and print, a little retro, dress for summer or jacket and skirt

This is totally black good wool. i decided I was old enought for the basic black skirt. This will be enought for two

Cotton with structure and a little Odd Molly style of print, for a blouse

Cotton with a little elastan for a skirt dress. The almost dots are almost pink and has a retro feel to it!

I´m pleased...

Tailor shop in Paris

Chair with fur seat

I bought this chair for 20 or 10 crowns early this summer:

Picture taken at my parents house becourse I sanded the hole thing down to tha bare wood that in this case was oak and it´s a very good thing to do it outside. I later painted it black as in the curtain blogpost.
The seat needed padding and all I could find was this 10 cm high seat that I attched with glue

and cut down to size using my best chef´s knife. I also made the seat smaller

with my "delta sander" becourse my plan was to use my furcoat that never leaves the attic and since fur is a little heavier than fabric the seat needs to be smaller

Voila! The finished chair!

Curtains

Before

After some sewing and a visit ti IKEA

After a visit to a fleamarker, a long time and some black paint

My cat had sergery and is not pleased with the plastic piece that will prevent him from scratching

The Myrtle update again

I´m knitting on other projects right now. This one is to big to bring with me in the cab, but starting the new job monday I will spend my evenings knitting and sipping gallons of tea...

Della Mitts

September KAL in the Ravelry group of fingerless mittens fanatics. Alpacka from Rauma, 1 ball.

Ekorundan or you can eat them too!

This weekend has been the weekend of "Ekorundan" That means that some organic farms have "open houses" and that you can ride between them in cars ( not so good for the climat...) Eko stands for ekological that means organic.
It´s the third year that it´s been arranged and I have done it all three years with a friend. We have bought a lot of veggies, drank a lot of coffea and had some really good cakes. This year we ended up at a sheepfarm that I don´t recall the name of but the woolshops name was "Sjöhästen" ;seahourse.

They had three kinds of sheeps, The gotlandic from the island outside Sweden. The Leicester and an endangered called "Åsen"

The gotlandic sheep is grey and when it becames a furcoat it´s called Viking lamb and is also quite popular in decorating

This is dyed wool to be spun into yarn

You could also buy natural skins

I bought a natural white skein of Leicester/Åsen and a singular thread gotlandic thera half of it was dyed in black
To be saved for a yammy project....
and yes they sell meat too!

The Myrtle again

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!