Kategorie: Stricken

i can’t go anywhere without bringing back some wooly souvenirs, can i? this is my loot from the english midlands. birmingham, where i visited my friend scott, was a disappointment yarn-wise! but i can find some decent skeins of yarn anywhere 😉

1 skein of wendy happy sock yarn. extremely soft and shiny, 75% bamboo, 25% nylon. bought at john lewis in solihull:

2 skeins of noro kureyon sock yarn. 70% wool, 30% nylon. feels kind of strange, the yarn twists in itself and it looks like it was handspun by myself (which isn’t a compliment *lol*). but the colours are adorable! 

i already cast on a one skein drop stitch stole with the green-purple skein. here you can also see that the weight of the yarn varies a lot:

apart from the yarn i also got some dpns with needle size 2.25. you hardly find them here in germany…

and hey, i also can’t go anywhere without knitting! i didn’t dare to take a project with my precious knit picks needles with me, so it had to be socks. i was really afraid that they wouldn’t let me go through security control at the airport with pointy sticks in my hand luggage. but what can i say: no problems at all! i got through 2 controls in frankfurt and 1 control in birmingham on the way back but nobody wanted to take my needles from me. yay! apparently i look so harmless that i could smuggle anything through airport controls *lol*

so one of these socks is „made in germany“, one is „made in britain“:

pattern: my own. just plain socks with a 3×3 cable down the side. co 64 st.

yarn: ca. 70g opal hundertwasser, colourway: 1433, silver sprial

needles: 2.5mm dpns

size: 40/41

i got this yarn for my birthday from my aunt. danke godi 🙂 but i have to admit i’m not the biggest opal hundertwasser fan… i like to knit difficult lace or cable patterns but there is no use to try that with such a colourful and stripy yarn. anyway, it was a nice knit, the socks are comfy and will make great „wear-around-the-house“-socks 🙂

pattern: brainless socks from yarnissima

yarn: ca. 60g drachenwolle sock yarn, merino/linen

needles: 2.5mm dpns

size: 40/41

i love the look and the fit of these socks! those were my first toe up socks too and definitely not my last!

the pattern works perfectly with the yarn. i’m so happy with these socks! intentionally i wanted to knit these for my mum, but she said she didn’t want anything with too many colours. her loss. my socks now *harr harr*

pattern: embossed leaves socks from interweaves knits „favorite socks“ 

yarn: ca. 60g drachenwolle sock yarn, 75/25 wool/pa 

needles: 2.5mm dpns

size: perfect fit for me. size 40/41

i wanted to knit these socks ever since i saw klippity’s embossed leaves socks. got the book for christmas from my bro 🙂

pattern: lace ribbon scarf

yarn: 150g wollmeise, 100% merino superwash, colourway: indisch rot

needles: 3.5mm

size after blocking: 2,55m x 25cm

i love the pattern! it’s not boring but easy to memorize. and hey, no need to talk about wollmeise yarn. it’s just the greatest there is! (me = big wollmeise fan)

i knitted a sackboy for my colleague matthias. he’ll get him on his birthday on saturday. so „shhhhh“ until then 😉

i got the pattern from the simply knitting magazine (thanks to kevin that he gave it to me when he came to visit). the pattern is also available for free. it’s a great pattern and i really enjoyed knitting it! i just hate the making up – it takes forever!

i gave my friend carina a skein of opal harry potter yarn for her birthday. she is a huge harry potter fan so it had to be harry & ron socks (that’s the colourway). and hey, it even was enough yarn for 2 pairs of socks!

1st pair: 

2nd pair. sneaker socks. the toe is done with blue regia yarn as i was running out of „harry & ron“. but i quite like it:

pattern: snowbird, vogue knitting fall 2008

yarn: lana grossa, cool wool merino superfein

i love, love, love this pattern. easy to knit, never boring and a lovely result. unfortunately they are really wide. maybe i should have used thinner yarn? anyway, i’m happy with the result and can’t wait to wear them.

pattern: dashing fingerless mittens

yarn: wolle rödel, soft-merino, 100% merino

these mittens are a kind of secret santa gift for scott. i hope they fit and he likes them!

 

i knit these socks as christmas present for my dad. it’s not christmas yet, but as he never looks at this blog it’s quite safe to post them already anyway 😉

pattern: loosely based on the thuja socks

yarn: wolle rödel, sock yarn

 

these socks were a real pain to knit! knitting socks for men is so boring! the don’t want any fancy patterns with cables or lace but have big feet. so you are stuck with a boring pattern for ages and ages!