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Veröffentlicht am 05/04/2010

moody owl shawl (aka daybreak)

pattern: daybreak by stephen west, size m

i liked knitting this pattern a lot. it’s easy but not boring. the design is great – i like the streight and clean look and that is longer than wide, which is good as i want to wear it as a scarf rather than a shawl.

yarn: old maiden aunt yarn, 100% superwash merino, sock weight. colourways: moody and midnight owl

the yarn is so adorable! very soft, smooth and shiny. a real pleasure to work with! still have some more skeins of old maiden aunt superwash merino in my stash and will definitely buy there again!

needles: 3.5mm circular (knitpro) needle

Veröffentlicht am 03/04/2010

easter knits

some easter knits i did this year to use up some sock yarn scraps…

i used wollmeise leftovers for this egg. wanted to make more, but i got inredibly bored after the first one 😉

so i knit this little guy instead. may i present you, mr. easter bunny. he’s really tiny and was fun to knit, but i guess amigurumi stuff is just not my favourite thing to do. it takes such a long time to sew pieces together, stuff, weave in thousands of ends…

happy easter!

Veröffentlicht am 21/03/2010

rad der zeit fibers

i couldn’t stop myself from buying a lot of fiber from rad der zeit at dawanda.

i tend to find a lot of adorable handpainted fibers all over the planet, mainly in the us, but you really have to take your chance when you find a nice shop with handpainted fibers that is based in germany. so here they are:

passion

200g, passion – 60% merino, 20% mulberry silk, 20% tussah silk

connemara

200g, 50% merino, 50% tussah silk

fun

100g, 50% merino, 50% tussah silk

rapunzel

300g, 100% new zealand lamb

amazonas

300g, 100% new zealand lamb

Veröffentlicht am 21/03/2010

dragon purple

this is called „dragon purple“ because the wensleydale roving is from drachenwolle (=dragon yarn). and it is purple. obviously 😉

i spun it on my sonata and ended up with about 300m and 99g. i’m not sure what to think of wensleydale fiber tough. it is very shiny but not as soft as i would have liked. and after plying the singles and washing the skein it became scrubbier and lost some of it’s shine. but see for yourself:

Veröffentlicht am 21/03/2010

jeans and shoes

this yarn was spun from zarzuela’s „blue jeans and leather shoes“ merino superwash fiber. it was a pleasure to spin and i ended up with 531m on 93g. any ideas what i could knit from it? maybe a simple scarf or shawl? nothing too outlandish as the colour changes are quite strong… hm…

Veröffentlicht am 20/03/2010

wollmeise update

thanks to reingard’s intuition when it comes to wollmeise shop updates, i got some new treasures:

from left to right: olio vergine, strohblume, aquarius, blue curacao, blaue tinte

all of them are 150g, merino superwash.

hmmm, i love wollmeise!

Veröffentlicht am 07/03/2010

go for gold

wow, can you believe it?! i won two gold medals in the internal ravelympics competition of team germany!

the participating projects were awarded by the team captains of team germany and the members voted by klicking „agree“. and i won. yay!

hm, i guess this is the time for a moving speech like „i couldn’t have done it alone. so i share these medals with my team whom i had a lot of fun with during the ravelympics, with my boyfriend who loves me although i’m a nuts knitaholic, my mum because she never tought me how to knit…“ erm. yeah. let’s leave it at that 😀

here are my two golden projects!

the octopus in the category „cute and cuddly“:

i might even print out the medal for him. might calm him down as he is sitting on my cd rack still trying to strangle the poor drawing model puppet 😉

the cut & paste socks in the category „socks“:

thanks to everybody who voded („agree“-d) for me 🙂

Veröffentlicht am 28/02/2010

green cousteau hat

so this is what became of the „greens“ yarn is spun last weekend: a jaques cousteau hat. well, almost. i had to modify the pattern when i realized i was running out of yarn. so i gave the rim a miss and just knit the hat shorter. but it fits great now and i like the result. what do you think?

oh, and i got 3 more ravelympics medals for my hat:

pattern: jacques cousteau hat

yarn: greens, handspun by be, 100% shetland

needles: 4.0mm dpns

Veröffentlicht am 26/02/2010

greens

i finished this skein last weekend. weight wise i was aiming for dk weight as i wanted to use the yarn as a hat. not sure i completely succeeded, i had about 13 wpi in the end and about 150m on 98g 🙂

the roving is 100% shetland wool, handdyed by wheeldale woolcrafts. i think the colourway was called „earth greens“ or something. the colours are great. i kept saving this roving for something special. i tend to do that with all the yarn and roving i like most. a bit absurd, don’t you think. i’d better use it as soon as possible and wear the resulting clothing and accessories all the time…. right?!

i like spinning shetland a lot. it feels more rough and sturdy than merino but that makes it a lot easier to spin regularly and thin.

i had some problems with overspun yarn lately though. somehow i couldn’t stop treadling very fast. and apparently my hands and feet only move in the same speed: if i treadle fast, i move my hands fast, if i treadly slowly, i move my hands slowly. have to practice treadling slowly and moving my hands fast 😉

got another ravelympics medal for this:

anyway, here some photos:

Veröffentlicht am 21/02/2010

wild berry socks

and another project i finished during ravelympics. it makes me all productive. yay.
the yarn was an experiment that went slightly wrong. i wound the yarn to a skein doubled so i get the same colours for both socks and then dyed it in the skein with easter egg colours and kool aid. but it didn’t turn out very well: many white spots in the middle… but see for yourself.