Peace proces

How is my 'peace proces' going. I have the charts. I ordered some yarn for test knitting. It is GGH Merino. A nice soft and round merino yarn. The first swatch I made with off white background and light brown contrasting color on 3mm needles.

Here I got 29 stitches per 10 cm, a little to loose. I like the color combination.
There are a few rows in the chart with only a small part of the round stranded. In this swatch I tried using a long tail of yarn for these parts and knit back the colored part in the uneven rows. I'm not really happy with this approach. It pulled at the row changes.
The second swatch is with a dark background and off white contrasting color with 2.75mm needles.

The gauge is better with 31 stitches in 10 cm. This time I just carried around both strands every row. The stranded bit is better now, but it is noticeable in the single color parts. Not sure yet what to choose.
Now finishing my charts and 'designing' the seamless set-in sleeves.

Spring in a sock

For the spring 2009 of the Midsummer Magic Club the task was to catch spring in your socks. For that we recieved a sock blank, some spring inspired dye and instructions for painting and knitting.
For the painting of the blank I had a lovely little assistant.


We taped the fingers of her gloves and she painted flowers on the blank like she had done it for ages.


Leaving the background for her mother to fill.

The included pattern was a nice lace pattern with butterflies and little tulips.
I knitted them both at the same time using magic loop. This was a little complicated, as the first lace pattern had stitches traveling from one needle to the other. But a savety pin did help a lot.