I spun and dyed some more yarn 🙂 I used two packs of Kool Aid Strawberry and ca. 500 ml water, for ca. 60 g yarn. While the yarn was outside sunbathing, I spun some more (somebody should have told me this is addicting 😀 ). Here are my two singles. And, you probably guessed …
Yesterday, it was finally sunny and hot, not a chance of rain. So the handspun yarn from my last post… … joined some colorful icecubes. (Kool Aid Orange and Kool Aid Lemon, one pack each. Each pack mixed with ca. 240 ml of water) A few hours later, it looked like this. This morning it …
I foresee some dyeing in my near future! Although I ordered it when it was really, really hot, it arrived when it was cold and rainy. But the weather should play along soon. I’ve only tried dyeing yarn once, using this great tutorial by Maiya The yarn later became this shawlette Wish me luck and …
Need a good laugh? Here are my first spinning attempts – well, not the very first. It wasn’t worth keeping or even taking a photo, it was just a few centimeters of an extremely, extremely overspun worm. 🙂 But I think I’m getting a tiny little bit better every day (or at least I hope …
Long promised and now they are finally here: Photos of my next design, called When he reached the moon. First, the mohair sample (shown in Drops Kid-Silk) It is knit at a slightly looser gauge than what I normally use for lace shawls – 14 sts and 30 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch. I …
I have just come back from a wonderful vacation in Norway and have some lovely yarnie souvenirs to show you! First from the Husfliden store in Oslo This is a mixture of baby alpaca, alpaca and silk. Soooo soft! I think they want to be mittens with a Norwegian pattern. What, only three small skeins …
I love starting something new. It’s l ike a white canvas just for me to fill with knowledge and experience. Thanks to my good friend Jolanda (whom you know from Jolanda’s Faroese Shawl), I’m going to start spinning. She gave me her beautiful spinning wheel, and I’m really excited. So many new things to try …
It’s summer, it’s vacation time and it’s World Wide Knit in Public Day! Can there be better reasons to celebrate? So I have decided to have a sale on Ravelry! Receive 25 % off any of my patterns with the coupon code Summer14! Happy knitting and enjoy! Thunder and Lightning Faroese Shawl Betty’s Faroese Shawl …
Jolanda is a faroese shawl knit sideways in three colors and different lace patterns. The center section is shaped with short rows to help the shawl stay on your shoulders. It is a great stash buster, since it uses less than 800 yd of one color. Make it in the colors of your home-country’s flag …
While I was sick with cold, I was dreaming about color, color and color. So as soon as I felt better, I started knitting Stephen West’s Zoolandia in a really crazy yarn – blue, orange, pink, yellow, white. Just what I needed. The yarn is Online Supersocke, the color is called orange-mix. I also ordered two …
