It’s a nice sunny and warm day today, but still – it’s autumn and for me, the cold always comes TOO EARLY. I will be prepared this year, though – my Montreal Set is finished. Cowl, hat and mittens all made from Drops Eskimo – and there’s a reason the yarn is called that. 🙂 …
Do you know what I think is the greatest thing since sliced bread when it comes to knitting? Well, if you know me, you probably do. But I’m going to tell you anyway: It’s knitCompanion. knitCompanion ist an Ipad app and I don’t want to ever knit without it again. It can do thousands of …
Is a yarn diet really a yarn diet if you don’t break it once in a while? And who could say no to this wonderful eye candy? Hey, it’s just six balls of yarn, and I’ve used two balls last week, every little bit of them until nothing was left. The Drops Air is gorgeous, …
A new pattern just went live, the Montreal Hat The hat is worked from the top down, so it can be easily adjusted for length. The top is worked in stockinette stitch to show off a variegated yarn. The border has really big, short cables in a plain yarn. It is designed to be worn …
My mother-in-law, Margrit, turns 80 this year and I thought it might be fun to start a Knitalong for her shawl. Margrit is a Pi-Shawl featuring four different lace patterns and a beautiful border. It is named after my mother in law. She’s living with my husband and me because she has Alzheimer’s and from …
My new shawl pattern “When he reached the moon” is online! When he reached the moon is a top-down triangular lace shawl featuring a series of different lace patterns to make the knitting interesting. Worked in mohair at a loose gauge, it is wonderfully warm yet light as a cloud and big enough to snuggle …
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 …
