i’m looking for company for some concerts… anybody up for any of these?!
… i have a non-crafty life as well 😉 for some time i wrote in too blogs but that got annoying so i gave up the cazlife blog. but now i’ll just integrate some non-crafts stuff i just HAVE to tell you into this blog. i hope you don’t mind. 😉
here you can see little callum from london showing off his new sheep cardigan. isn’t he cute?! and the sweater fits really well.
i knit the size 6-9 months, remember? he is not even 2 months old! so either he is a huge baby or the measures of the pattern are way off!
anyway, it fits and i’m happy with the outcome. will post more photos when i get them (tomorrow?)…
i finished this yarn yesterday (as you can see in the last post, i was busy as a bee…) it’s australian merino roving. berry colours: rose, pink, aubergine etc.
i ended up with 89g and 282m. i doubt my measurements though because the yarn is about sock weight and should be more yardage. it will be enough anyway for a pair of convertible mittens. not sure which pattern to use, but i think it will become broad street mittens.
i have enough roving left (and ordered some more *oops*) to knit a matching hat, neckwarmer or something…. i’ll have to think about something and then spin the yarn just for my needs. i love spinning 😀
isn’t the weather just brilliant today? the last grasp of summer and me sitting on the balcony with bare feet, in short pants, tshirt and a very stupid hat doing some spinning.
i’m spinning merino at the moment in a variety of berry colours: pink, rose, purple, aubergine (oh well, that would be a vegetable colour 😉 )…
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for the video i used one of the songs i was listening to while spinning. „falling slowly“ from glen hansard. i recently discovered the movie „once“ and fell in love with the music! i can’t help it, i always fall for the small, non-blockbuster, low-budget, beautiful movies 🙂 have a look:
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here is the result of my spinning sunny afternoon:
oh, and i don’t want to deprive you of the pleasure to see me in my stupid hat protecting my show white like skin from the evil september sun 😛
pattern: lacy baktus – a very easy yet effectful pattern. i prefere the lace version because it looks more interesting than the normal baktus.
yarn: my own handspun. purple paradise. the first thing i produced you could actually call „yarn“ 🙂 it’s shetland roving and could be a bit softer. but it will be really warm 🙂
these photos were taken pre-blocking because i wanted to use the sunny weather to take phots. it’s drying now and has become bigger – especially in length.
this is a cardigan for my friend kevin’s little boy, callum. he is just 3 weeks old now so i guess he’ll have some room to grow into it.
aren’t those buttons adorable? the friend i was shopping with that day and me both fell in love with them on first sight and i had to have them for this cardigan. it gives it the special something 😀
the cardi will make its way to london by post tomorrow 🙂 i guess kev is too busy with the baby and moving house at the moment so that he won’t regularly check this blog and sneak a peek before it arrives in wooly person 😉 so… i’m going to post it now.
pattern: Offset Wraplan by Sara Morris. i knit size 6-9 months but it turned out a little small i think
yarn: wolle rödel siena. 100% merino extrafine superwash. 2 balls of the dark colour, 1 of the lighter contrast colour. it’s the same yarn i used for my yellow pullover – very, very soft and stretchy as well.
buttons: cutest sheep buttons in the world 😉 bought at karstadt in frankfurt
these socks are for my dad. he chose this yarn himself when i sent them to buy wollmeise yarn for me at the handwerkermarkt in sindelfingen. so i’m not to be blamed – the man wanted red socks himself! 😛 he sais it’s dalai lama colour and that’s perfect because he wants to wear them when he goes to his weekly sessions to the buddhist temple in stuttgart. that’ll keep his feet warm while his mind is engaged with more spiritual matters 😉
i hope they fit. he didn’t try them on yet.
yarn: wollmeise twin, 80% merino superwash / 20% polyamide, colourway: granatapfel. the wollmeise was a pleasure to knit – as always!
pattern: Mash-Up Magic Toe-Up Socks Recipe as a basis and i added a cable on the outer side of each foot
this is my newest yarn. i spun it for my colleague reingard and she got it on her birthday party on saturday night so i can show it off now 🙂 she’s a red fan, so it had to be red!
it is 80% merino and 20 white mulberry silk. i wanted to spin lace weight and ended up with ca. 621m and 100g.
i’m so happy with the result. it’s incredibly soft and shiny. the silk makes it look so glossy, especially in the sun.
this is „reinsche’s red“ pre-plying. here you can see how the fibre looked before spinning:
and this is the result:
i’m going to spin about the same amount again so it’s enough for a big shawl or scarf 🙂 i’ll keep you posted what becomes of it…
in my stash i have the same amount (200g) of this fiber in green which is more my colour. i’m looking forward to spinning it for myself. it really is very soft and a pleasure to spin!
here it is. i couldn’t resist any longer and had a very spinning weekend 😉 it is 100% merino superwash, colourway „neapolitan“, 108g, 455m.
on this photo you can see me plying and watching heroes series 3 on the internet. if you have a close look you can see mohinder 😉
hm, here you can see a strange thing. there were some almost white parts where two white singles met. these white parts are gone. when i washed the yarn after plying there was a lot of colour in the water. i guess all the white parts were re-coloured in a slightly orange/pink shade. i like it anyway, but i would have liked the white bits too…
and this is the result:
