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kiwi

may i present you: mr kiwi. he was fun to knit – the eyes and legs are attached directly to the body by picking up stitches. i liked that because you don’t have problems sewing them on. knitting these little animals you always have to sew millions of yarn ends though, but i guess there’s no way to avoid that 😉

he’ll be the mascot of our new zealand trip in oktober/november 2011.

pattern: kiwi by kahra grae

yarn: brown and white are scraps of lana grossa cool wool (100% merino), the legs are lana groassa meilenweit cotton sock yarn (cotton, wool, polyamid) and the blue on the eyes is old maiden aunt sock yarn.

needles: 3mm dpns

 

 

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effortless cardigan

i did it! i finished a sweater! it fits, although it turned out really big and heavy. but it’s comfy and warm and will be use a lot on the cold and chilly days to come!

i had problems with knitting the long rows back and forth. it seems i knit tighter than i purl and thus produced an annoying zebra pattern. tried to get rid of that effect by using two different needles – a smaller size for the purl ws rows. it kinda worked and blocking did the rest so that it’s hardly visible anymore.

this pattern took me about 5 months to finish. not to knit, but to finish 😉 i’m really crap at finishing big projects. i have so many ideas and rather start 3 new ones than finish one big project. all that finishing, weaving in ends. boooohhh!

pattern: effortless cardigan by hannah fettig

yarn: stahlsche wolle big, 100% wool, 84m/50g, used 15 skeins.  this was a „for free“ project because my mum found the yarn in a red cross shop for just a few € and thought it was perfect for her knitting addicted daughter. she was right 😉

needles: hm, i don’t remember. i didn’t write it down in my ravelry project on time before i forgot it. i think it must have been 3.5mm or 4mm needles.

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felix’s cardigan

same as mentioned before: no specific recipient, just longing for instant gratification and using up my stash.

pattern: felix’s cardigan by jacki kelly

yarn: schachenmayr nomotta cotton light. 80m/50g, 55% cotton, 45% acrylic. about 2.2 skeins of the beige, about 0.7 skeins of the red. again a gift from anna. thanks! the yarn is lovely – feels great. usually i don’t like using acrylic at all, but this is very cosy!

needles: 4 mm circular and dpns

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maile

may i present you: maile. a very cute baby cardigan. when ever i was bored and annoyed of big projects theses last few months i knit baby clothes. nothing to suspect here, people 😉 no baby on the way. baby clothes are just perfect instant gratification projects and perfect to use up small amounts of yarn in my stash. and the perfect gift for friends who become parents. or i’ll just stash the clothes for my own kids some day. either way: perfect.

i loved this pattern. it’s always fun to knit patterns that are seamless. why? no seams 😉

pattern: maile sweater by nikki van de car

yarn: schewe fidibus, a little more than one skein used. 40% mohair, 60% acrylic. thanks to anna for the yarn-gift!

needles: 3.5mm circular needle and dpns

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thorpe 2

i had a lot of „snowy wood in january“ yarn left over from the baby surprise jacket. so i made a matching thorpe hat to go with it. and now i still have leftovers. maybe matching booties?! 😉

pattern: thorpe hat by kirsten kapur

yarn: handspun. superwash merino. snowy wood in january  . shades of light blue, green, purple and white.

needles: 4.0mm dpns and crochet needle

 

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flacon

this is a good pattern to try doilys – which this all was about… i like the result – have no idea where, and if, i’m going to use it.

it was finished in a few hours was a very fiddely project though! the yarn is very thin and slippery, so when the piece grew i constantly dropped stitches because they slided off my double pointed needles! maybe better with wooden needles instead of metal…

pattern: flacon

yarn: unknown lace yarn. i bought loads of it on a cone for just 1€ in a second hand shop. i think it’s either 100% cotton or a mix of cotton and acrylic. feels very cotton-y though.

needles: 2.5mm dpns

 

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textured shawl

nice streight forward pattern. i love knitting complicated and playful lace patterns but i actually like wearing simple and modern things best. so this is going to be worn a lot. too warm at the moment though…

pattern: textured shawl by orlane designs

yarn: old maiden aunt, 100% superwash merino, colourway mexican wine. the colour is a dark purple mixed with red/brown. i used exactly one skein. only a few cm left in the end!

needles: 4.5mm

 

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baby surprise jacket

i wanted to try the baby surprise jacket for a long time. and it’s just the perfect pattern for handspun yarn!

no recepient-baby here yet, but i’ll just keep it until some friends have a baby or for my own ones – sooner or later. haha.

the yarn is perfect for either a girl or a boy and i’m just going to buy buttons according to the sex of the future owner. flowers for a girl, little boats for a boy or something…

i’m really happy how it turned out. and this pattern is simply amazing! it’s knit in one piece and while your knitting you’d never think it could end up as a cardigan. but – suprrise, surprise – it does 😉 i seamed the top of the arms with a crochet seam because i couldn’t think of an invisible seam to use in this case. so i thought i could as well use a very visible seam. and i also croched along the neckline.

oh, and the jacket only took me one weekend to finish! baby clothes are excellent – instant gratification!

pattern: baby surprise jacket by elizabeth zimmermann

yarn: handspun. superwash merino. snowy wood in january  . shades of light blue, green, purple and white.

needles: 4.0mm circular needle and crochet hook

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a kind of kernel

i’ve seen this variation of the kernel knit before and loved it. so i just knit the edging chart of the pattern over and over again until i ran out of yarn. it just took me a week to knit. it’s a perfect mindless tv-knitting-project. i have to admit though that i had to cheat sometimes or knit back because i had forgotton to do some yarn overs 😉

pattern: kernel by bonny sennott

yarn: bremont valentina, 60% baby suri alpaca and 40% fine merino, i used two skeins with 200m/50g each.

needles: 3.5mm