Saturday, February 21, 2015

For spring days

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Last autumn I bought some madelinetosh Twist light without a real idea what I would do with it. Let’s say it was an impulse buy, I simply loved the colours and thought they might work well together but other than that, no real clue. Now I bought it on the “internet” so the colours “in silico” might not be the same as “in vivo”, but when I got the package, they luckily were….

But simple stripes would be a bit too boring and I felt that ripples would be better. I have had the pattern Alouette in my sight for a long long time, but as I have equal amounts of each of the colours I wanted to have a striping that would be more equal for all the colours. So I tinkered a bit, came up with my own striping sequence and off knitting I am...

The other big change, it will not be a jumper but a cardigan, hopefully with long or at least 3/4 sleeves, since short sleeves woollen garments do not really work well with me...

I am pleased so far, a nice vintage-looking cardigan, good for the spring?

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Friday, February 13, 2015

Some cheer

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Grey February days and one needs some cheer….. This is an emergency hat  just for that  occasion, knitted with yarn from stash, Silk Garden. I don’t know how long I had this yarn and it was always meant for a hat, so when this pattern came out it was just logical. It is very quick to knit and really good to battle the gray….

 

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