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winter day

i started dying! well i did dye some sock yarn before – with easter egg colours, but got real ashford dyes for christmas this year. and this was my very, very first try dying roving ever.

after i had finished the dying and boiling i was was sooooo depressed about the result: the roving on the drying rack looked so dishevelled, all the fibres were clotted and wet and looked just horrible.

but time solved the problem and after drying the superwash roving was back to its soft and fluffy self! and i even really, really like the colours! the idea was to go for a snowy/wintery look and i think i quite managed that!

here it is, my first hand dyed roving. yay!

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funnies no 29

and here is another yarn i finished some days ago. it’s 100% superwash merino from dibadu (as the other funnies rovings).

it weighs 102g and has a yardage of about 233m. it’s only my second single yarn and i’m quite happy with it. i didn’t want to ply it becaus i didn’t want to lose the brightness and strength of the colours by mixing them up.

any ideas what i could knit with it?!

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2010 in review

here are some stats from my blog from 2010. quite interesting – so i wanted to share them with you. hope there will be even more posts, more clicks and more visitors in 2011 🙂

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2010. That’s about 26 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 48 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 233 posts.

The busiest day of the year was October 20th with 345 views. The most popular post that day was pattern: pompon and seeds hat.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ravelry.com, carolingall.de, slomoeknits.wordpress.com, facebook.com, and knittersreview.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for christmas handicrafts, lacy baktus scarf, baktus scarf, lacy baktus, and iphone sock knitting pattern.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

pattern: pompon and seeds hat October 2010

2

knitted iphone sock tutorial August 2008
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3

pattern: very basic scarf October 2010
3 comments

4

lacy baktus scarf September 2009
2 comments

5

ipod nano cozy tutorial April 2008
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jasper’s hat

a present for jasper, the little boy of friends… we were invited for dinner there tonight, but decided not not drive to hannover hundreds of kilometers – the weather is crazy. the most beautiful snow you can imagine – and heaps of it. but no fun to drive… so jasper’ll get wooly mail soon 😉

i used my handspun superwash merino yarn and i just loooove the result. the yarn knit up so nicely and i like the colours a lot better in the knit fabric. hope the hat will fit.

the pattern is lovely too. really easy to follow. will definitely make more of those…

pattern: thorpe by kirsten kapur

yarn: funnies no 32, handspun superwash merino, roving was from dibadu

needles: 4mm dpns and a 4mm crochet hook

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annis 2

now that it has been finished and gifted as a christmas present i can show you this annis shawl too. it’s my second. the first one was for tim’s mum, the second one was for my mum. it’s a lovely greyish/blueish colour…

pattern: annis from susanna ic

yarn: old maiden aunt, 4ply superwash merino, colourway „dreich“

needles: 5.0mm circular needle

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baktus with stripes

my second bactus. this time not a lacy but a stripy one. i used tow skeins of zauberball of the same colourway and knit them alternating… like the result in some parts but in other parts the same colours merged into big blocks with hardly any visible stripes at all…

pattern: baktus. i used eskimimi’s mods for stripes

yarn: schoppel zauberball, colourway brombeere

needles: don’t remember. 3mm, 3.25mm or 3,5mm… hm…

 

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funnies no 32

… another dibadu skein. this i my latest work and i love how smooth and squishy the 100% superwash merino turned out! i mainly spin thin yarn, like fingering, sock or lace, so this was a nice change. the result is about aran weight – no yardage either of course. i’m so busy at the moment and lazy. a fatal combination…

here no photo of the unspun roving either. the daylight problem, you remember…

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funnies no 14

i’m not very creative tonight so i’m calling this yarn after the rovings name „no 14“ 😉 it’s the first time i bought roving at dibadu and i quite like the roving i got there. especially the superwash (which this one isn’t by the way).

the roving was a mix of merino, tussah silk and flax. the flax felt really strange while spinning. it was very sturdy and hard and hurt my fingers a bit while spinning, but i like the result. the flax gave shine to the yarn – didn’t make it very soft though.

here i don’t know the yardage either – i keep counting the rounds and then never write it down and forget it after 2 days. :/

and i was too eager to start spinning that i didn’t take a photo of the unspun roving. apart from that it’s really hard to take good fotos at the moment. it’s dark when i go to work, it’s dark when i get home from work… taking photos with flash is crap, so i wait until the weekend, sometimes i’m too busy or forget… well, anyway, here’s just the spun result: