Kategorie: Stricken

my asics tiger mexico 66 arrived today *wheeeeew*
i was so happy, so i knitted them a heart *lol*

i just finished my neckwarmer! i love it. so simple, so brilliant. the yarn is lana grossa soffice is very soft and warm. and my grandma’s old, handpainted buttons fit perfectly 🙂

can’t wait to wear it!

i’m busy knitting socks for the socks, drugs and rock’n’roll swap at the moment… of course i can’t show you any photos yet. i don’t want to spoil the surprise 🙂 i hope my swap pal will like them…

i just HAD to cast on socks with my hand-dyed sock yarn. i know i shouldn’t have. i still have several projects to finish… but i couldn’t help it 😉

they are going to be very easy plain socks. it’s all about the colour this time!

i like how the colourway turned out: the green, blue and yellow look more stripy with light patches… i called them „spring socks“ because they look very spring-ish to me 🙂

doesn’t look to bad, ey?!

how exciting. i wanted to try it for ages but couldn’t decide on how to do it and which colours to use… but today i just did it.

it was much more difficult than i thought actually. it’s really hard to achieve a smooth colourway. i tried to use a spoon to apply the dye, but it turned out really patchy. next time i’m going to put the yarn in glasses of dye to get a more steady result…

i’m soooo curious to see the result when the sock yarn is dry. and even more curious how the pattern will look when i knitt socks from it…

here are the photos of the whole „event“ 😉

aquarius socks –> pattern

i love the fabric. it is a lana grossa meilenweit cotton with 41% cotton. very stretchy, soft and less itchy than my usual sock yarn. they’ll be the perfect summer socks. can’t wait to finish work for today and get back kitting… 😉