So, I have finished the maroon scarf. Just in nick of time for the cold weather. I will donate this one to Hjälpstickan, an organisation who knits for the homeless.
Fake rib scarf
Yarn: Estonian wool
Colours: Maroon and black
Needles: 4,5 mm
Pattern: -
Design: -
Started: January 7, 2012
Finished: January 22, 2012
Yarnsource: Gift from a friend, bought in Tallinn, Estonia.
The model is Ocsar Montelius, 1843 - 1921 - was a Swedish archaeoligist. This bust is standing at work, in our library.
Slow Saturday with my knitting, watching the latest episode of Homeland. Outside it's snowing, inside it's cosy. On the needles a scarf, fake rib, in maroon, estonian wool.
Saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy yesterday. A very stylish film made by Tomas Alfredson, who made the Swedish version of Let the Right One in. I liked Tinker, great actors and I think Gary Oldman will be nominated for an Oscar for this role. And I hope Alfredson gets a nod too.
Yesterday I finally but the winter clothes away. After som airing and washing, my jackets and coats are now stored in my attic and my shawls and scarfs (after som hours in the freezer as well) are stored in boxes.
When I had finished my counting, I had 23 shawls and scarves - all used this past winter, and all knitted by me. Not all has gone to summer resting - some are still waiting to be used for spring and summer. You can always have use for some shawls during the warm season.
Today I have been looking around in my unfinished projects bags and found an interesting project to knit on. I started this one in August, I think. Checkerboard Lace Scarf, I'm using Drops alpaca.
It's an easy pattern to remember, but perhaps a bit boring, but if I can make ... let's see ... perhaps one or two reports a week, and alternate with other knitting projects, I maybe have this one finished in ... February?
Another more fun knitting project, is the current green one. A shawl in garter stitch, a fast one - even though I started this one in November, but not really got to chance to knit until after the Lucia Day - mostly due to my sore shoulder. But now my shoulder is feeling better, so I can knit again.
I also started a new project today as well, no photo yet - basically just first row done - 420 stitches - this one - in alpaca left overs. And I will use my swift later on tonight to wind up a skein of soft merino yarn from Canada to make some mittens. I got this lovely skein from a former co-worker who spent 2 weeks in Ontario, Canada during the fall. Lovely gift!
You saw this in the last post I wrote and here are the facts:
Mistake rib scarf
Yarn: Ullcentrums 2play
Colours : green/gray
Needles: 5,5 mm bamboo circ
Pattern: Child's rainbow scarf, wider though, 43 stitches
Design: Joelle Hoverson
Started: September 30, 2010
Finished: October 10, 2010
Yarnsource: Syfestivalen, Kista 2009
This is my new favorite scarf. And it goes very well against my green coat! And the past week has really been cold, so I have been using it a lot!
I only used on hank of this yarn, so I needed to do some thing else with my spare hank.. And that hank has already turned into a FO.
In my quest to reduce my yarn stash I have set my eye on those single skeins/hanks - and I had wonder what to do with all of them. I bought a single hank of Araucania Quellon 1 1/2 ago and I finally picked it up and made a simple scarf of it.
Simple Scarf
Yarn: Araucania Quellon
Colour: pinkish
Needles: 5,5 mm bamboo circ
Pattern: -
Design: -
Started: September 12, 2010
Finished: September 26, 2010
Yarnsource: Nysta
Early on I made the decision this scarf was set to give away to charity. And this one was given to the charity of Hjälpstickan. Hjälpstickan collect home knitted items and gives the to Stockholms stadsmission. I have knitted socks before but this was my first scarf. These knitted items goes out to the homeless in Stockholm. I think this is a great way to give and it's also a great way to get rid of all the left-overs. Or in this case a single hank of loveliness!
For weeks and weeks I have living with most of my clothes outside my walk-in-closet. I discovered, what I thought, a water leak, before midsummer. I called my super and he did some checking and called in other guys. Finally they discovered the ventilation from my bathroom stood still, and the humidity and heat from my bathroom had started to condensed inside in my walk-in-closet (those are wall to wall of each other). So my walk-in needed to dry out and they needed to fix the ventilation. Nothing of my clothes and things were damaged in this, but they smelled like an old basement.
So during all this I started to go through and wash all my clothes and finally deciding what to keep and what to loose. Yesterday I gave 2 bags with clothes to my favorite charity organisation Stockholms Stadsmission, and today I managed to get another bag filled with more clothes to loose. I had planed to do this for ages, and now was the right time, when everything was out of the closet. This weekend I have started to put back clothes in my walk-in and suddenly I have room for new clothes in my walk-in - it was basically overloaded with clothes. And with clothes I haven't been wearing for years and years.
Between all laundry to do and cleaning I have dedicated every Sunday to see the series of River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: So far I have seen: Escape to River Cottage, Return to River Cottage and River Cottage Forever. And while watching on my computer, knit!
Lately I have been knitting on a mistake rib scarf to myself. An autumn is not complete without a new scarf, right? ;-)
Now, I need to go back to fix my walk-in! Have a great Sunday!
I'm having a slow morning, enjoying my last day of summer vacation. I'm going back to work on Wednesday, after 10 weeks off. First 6 weeks on sick leave and then 4 weeks of vacation. It feels a bit weird to to back, even thought I had 2 working days last week - the Fårö trip. I haven't had this much time off from work since I was unemployed 8 months way back in 1999.
I have started a new project. Bought some drops alpaca last week in a lovely purple. A scarf in this pattern. So far it looks good and it's an easy pattern to follow.
My plan for today is basically to do some house chores - cook, clean, laundry - with the music loud on the stereo. And in between, do some knitting.
This became a perfect spring scarf/shawl. And I love it. The shape and the colour. An easy and a fast knit!
A beautiful leaf pattern on one side.
I've finished my Olympic knitting! I did my cast of to the ladies hockey bronze match between Sweden- Finland, and Sweden sadly lost... But I'm happy with my shawlette. I brought it to work on Friday to get the chance to photograph it in daylight - still unblocked - and I got my co-worker A, to model it.
Citron Verde
Yarn:Malabrigo lace 50 grams
Colours : green - verde
Needles: 4 mm knit picks circ
Pattern: Knitty, Winter 09 Design:Hillary Smith Callis
Started: February 13 16, 2010 Finished: February 25, 2010
Yarn source:Marias garn
I will probably block it later today, but I kind of like it as it is. It was a fast knit and an easy pattern to memorize. Love the colour - of course - and it will match a lot in my wardrobe.
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