Contrast

My Angie is proceeding very well, and once again I just love how the stockinette contrasts with the very nice ribbing. It is quite a simple knit, but yet so elegant. And after the garter peplum which takes a bit of time, the stockinette goes just so fast. I like that, and I am pretty sure I will like to wear this little cardigan too….

Until now no major changes to the pattern, I knitted two more rows in the main body, but that is it, nothing else…. Probably I will use of-white vintage buttons that I already have and probably a 1-row buttonhole.

Update for cotton time

After some bribing with M&Ms (we sink low…)

 

Cotton time

 

On the way back from Berlin we had another long bus trip…..As it has been warm until the first of May, I really was in the mood for some summer knitting. Of course that is tempting things and fair enough, we have speed forwarded to autumn, as the weather since has been more Autumn-like than anything else. But that is drifting of, on a recent work-related visit to my home-country I had picked up a Phildar Pitchoun with some nice summer garments for children. There was one top I did like a lot and thought it would be a good one for my youngest. Phildar yarns are not easy to get here and as this top was knitted on relative smal needles, I thought, well maybe Catania is a good match. But in real life, it wasn’t… My gauge was enormously of, so much of that using the pattern as it was didn’t make much sense…. So I used the pattern as giving me the idea and that worked out really well… 

But I went my own way, the pattern was knitted in 3 pieces, front, back, and a sideways knitted top bit. I knitted the front and back separately, the sideways top, I knitted as one would knit an applied lace border, but in this case I just used stockinette with an I-cord finish at the edge. Twisted cords are the shoulder straps and that is that… now summer please come back….

Catania is quite a nice cotton, not too expensive and it has a nice shine.  Quite a wide range of bright colours too...

As I am still in cotton mood, I am using it again for my next project. Kim Hargreaves is my favourite designer and her new book Honey does not disappoint at all. There are quite a number of projects that appeal to me, but none more than Angie, a small cardigan with peplums and an interesting rib. Again some sideways elements, but on the whole the classic sleek design that is so Kim Hargreaves. So in Cotton Glace, my Angie to come: 

 

 

 (and yes now I do have the Rolling Stones in my head…)

Berlin photo avalanche

We were in Berlin last weekend….and I took maybe too many pictures at one place….

 

 

 

 

 

We had a good time and it is impressive how the city is transforming. And that Reichstag dome is just one of these places where you want to take pictures and then some more…. Like the Guggenheim, where you are not allowed to do so. At least in Berlin you can indulge….

On the bus I knitted a lot so a finished project, modelled in the apartment we stayed in during our visit:

 

Angostura in Classic Elite Solstice, a cotton-wool mix, I am gearing up to warmer weather knitting….

Chaos...... and then

Guess what we are doing this Easter Break...

 

 

 

 

And yes we are not finished yet, there will be still some wall papering to do and putting the last pieces of wood back where they belong, 

Straighforward

 

Some years ago I always had a sock on the needles. At that time I used to have about three parallel projects and one of those was socks. But at sometime I started to knit more and more 1 item at a time and socks kind of disappeared from what I knitted. On the on the one hand, the socks I knitted were appreciated, by big daughter, husband and myself (smaller daughter wore them but was never a huge fan), but as I do like to knit sweaters more, once I knitted one item at a time, they got the lowest priority. Now most of the socks I knitted got holes and I am really not very good with repairing holes in socks…so most of them had their natural lifetime and that was that...

I do however still have a considerable sock-yarn stash. I have delved into that for shawl knitting, but not really for sock knitting. And then some weeks ago at a local lys in Malmö, I spotted some Zauberball Crazy and just had to buy it. And for once I put sock knitting back on my things to make. So some simple, but nice socks…and as I remembered excellent for commute knitting…..

Warm and Comfy

It doesn’t happen that much, but I knitted something out of season….  But to counter I made it big and it will be all right for some winters to come. And on a rainy spring morning it still is warm and comfy…..