I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve…
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Not long ago I received the long awaited paper edition of Whimsical Little Knits 2 and despite the fact that I still have a couple of midwinter presents (or christmas presents if you wish) to knit I just couldn’t resist casting on Damson.
I actually started in a red yarn before I realised that it would run out halfway trough the scallops. So I’m making it in the bluegrass colourway of Sock! Merino by Lisa Souza instead. It’s intensely green but that’s fine by me. And as it’s not a gift unlike all the stuff I’ve made for months now… The yarn is quite skinny but very soft and nice to knit with, and I’ve had it for years, thinking that it was too soft for socks. It’s good to use some of the deep stash sometimes. The picture was taken on my first instalment of the project, before I frogged it and started in on smaller needles. The fabric just felt too airy and the shawl was too small. I had reached the lace scallops and had a lot of yarn left so this time I’m making the garter stitch portion bigger by 18 or 36 rows. And I recently bought new stitch markers on Etsy A couple of months ago a thread started over at the stash and burn groupies boards on Ravelry. The thread was originally about “going cold sheep for a year” meaning, a full year of yarn dieting. This coincided with me realising that my yarn chest (an old seaman’s chest) was unable to close due to being too stuffed with yarn. So I signed up for it. With modifications. The all time high totals of the stash was calculated October 12th, by adding it all to Ravelry and frogging some UFO’s was 29940,2 meters (or 32742,8 yards) and that was after getting rid of some of the crap yarn I had! Now, after 1.5 month of cold sheeping, lots of knitting, donating some yarn and generally being a good girl/cold sheeper…
My biggest passion these last couple of months has been stranded colour work. And not just any kind of colour work, but going back to my roots and knitting traditional Norwegian mittens (generically known as Selbu mittens, even though most of my patterns are not in fact, from Selbu, just Norwegian) and socks.
The pattern for these mittens can be found in “Votteboken”, although I have seen a very similar pattern in pt. design 82. The selbu modern is going along nicely. The only thing that really worries me is that it will be too short. But as I went up to 3mm on the body of the hat I don’t think that should be a problem. Sometimes, I actually do it. Promise. So what I did was to cast on two repeats and on my 3mm DPN’s knit in the round, one of the chart repeats in grey with green And the other with green with grey. I’m thinking that the last one is the best way to go. I like the look of that one better anyway. The biggest problem is that the hat isn’t for me and I don’t know how the recipient will feel about a neon green hat with grey flowers. Hopefully she will find it awesome whatever I do but one never knows… |
Tekopp knits/studies/lives in Oslo, Norway. Enjoys drinking coffee, eating yummy vegan food and collecting body mods...
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