finished

The little norge 2000 top is finished.



I added a closure at the shoulder, with little bear buttons.



And luckely it stil fits.

Norge 2000 again

This spring I knitted the Norge 2000 of dale of Norway for my son. In the leavelet of the pattern there is also a pattern for a baby dress. I changed it a little for my girl.



The dress is almost done. In the picture the trims needed to be knitted, now only the butons need to be sewn on.

There were enough leftovers for a little hat, also from the Norge 2000 pattern.



Sadly it is to smal for my girl. So I gave it to a friend who's little one stil has to grow in to it.

For my girl I started a new hat with the left over orange and red.



The hat is finished and in use. I hope I remember to make a picture before it is dirty.
When there is enough time I'll try to write down how I knitted this hat.

Spinning

This summer I wanted to give spinning a try. So I bought a wheel form marktplaats, an very old wheel. I gave it some love and care. I also bougth a fleece, cleaned and washed it. Spend an evening combing and carding and spinned my first skein.



A little bit of thick and thin yarn, for a smal project. I knitted a little sheep.



The dark yarn is not homespun ;-)



The sheep shows the yarn very well I think.

The spinning on the old wheel was not easy. It is a double drive wheel, but the tension is not good to control. This made me buy an other wheel very fast. This time an old Louet.



Again some love and care needed. The attachment of the footman was replaced by some metal part that would make a lot of noise when pedalling. I replaced it with an original connector, put some vaseline here and there and it is so silent and a joy to use. This resulted in a new skein.



Stil thick and thin, but more consistent than the first one. And more yarn. Enough for a hat.



Spinning is so much fun.

Noro Shikisai

For a one skein exchange I ordered 2 different skein of yarn. The Colinette Jitterbug I used for the exchange. I knitted a nice bag out of it.



Then there was the Noro Shikisai. What to make out of it? I started of with a shawl, but had too few yards to my taste. I asked around on Ravelry and someone advised me to try Calorimetry. That was a fun knit.



When it was done my little girl wanted it to be hers. It was way to big, so I also made a smaller one.



I added a crochet flower and a bear button at the back.



And with the little left over I knitted a cozy for my cell.



That was a skein wel used.

Swallowtail

Did I blog about my swallowtail yet? Don't think so!

Begin this year I bought some yarn to make this. But I did not order the needed silke alpaca but alpace (so without the silk). I don't like the idea of cableling with the alpaca yarn, so I looked for another pattern.

I wanted to try some lace and choose the swallowtail.

I made it 5 repeats bigger and that was needed, it could even have been bigger.



Here it is on my lovely harmony needles, of which I broke one in the process. Not during the knitting, but when leaning on it while getting of the sofa. It was kindly replaced by Yvon of Storm op Zolder.
It only took 1.5 skein, so it is so light.



Now to think about something to knit with the other 11 skeins of alpaca.

update needed

I need to update my blog very badly.
A lot of fo's need some display.

Lets start with some sock yarn I dyed for the little ones.
I divided a skein of trekking xxl sock yarn in two parts. About 33% of the skein for my little girl and 67% for my boy. Painted both in the microwave with easter egg dye.



My son choose the darker colors and wanted some white left in his yarn. For him I knitted the standard Wolhalla sock pattern.



I have some yarn left, maybe enough for socks for my little girl.

For my little girl I used the red, orange and yellow paint. From the previous dye session we knew that the red turn out pink, very suitable for a little girl.



The sock were knitted with the stitch pattern of the show of socks.

It's almost cold enough for them to put them on.

Kashmir

During my norwegean knitting course I was looking for other stranded knitting projects. And I found this. Love the pattern and the used colors.
I could find the same yarn in a shop on the internet, but the pattern was out of print. E-bay could not help me here.

So I mailed the Dale off Norway people in Norway and they were so kind to send me a copy of the pattern. It is in Norwegean, but I'll manage.

A picture of the progress I made.

Easter egg paint part two

Remember this?

It knitted up like this:

I think it worked out very nice, but too girly for my son. So they will have to wait till my little girl can use them.

cake anyone?

A few weeks ago I followed a workshop from a friend with some other friends. We had a go on puzzle cake decorating. It was a fun afternoon and the cakes were wonderfull.
This was mine.

And it tasted very good.

So now I had to try it at home.


Next week one for fathersday.

Oh my ..

It has been way to long. Ok, my ravelry is up to date, but that's no excuse for neglecting my blog.

Let's show some FO's:
First my little cardigan for the nordic knitting course.

Finished with Chinese cord closures.

And my norge 2000 for the little man.

Very nice yarn to knit with (lana grossa merino 2000). And it will probably still fit next winter.

And the last one are my toe up, magic loop, two at the same time socks.

Finally finished. When the heels were done it got boring. But no second sock syndrome here.

Finally a FO again

The Peter Pan sweater is done. Finally.

The front:


And the back:


My son wonders why I did not make the neckline the same on both sides, so he could choose what goes up front.

Easter egg paint

Look what my son and I did last weekend.
We experimented with white sock yarn and easter egg paint.
We started with the lighter colors and ended with the blue and purple.
The yarn looked very dark at some spots, but when we took it out of the container we saw that the dark colors never reached the lower layers of yarn. So the white spots are not intended to be there.



But it looks quite nice reskeined. My son wants a pair of socks from it anyway.

Update on my norwegian knitting

We had 3 lessons and I started another project.
This is my course thing:


We just learned to weave and next will be the cutting. Oh my..

And I started a Norge 2000 from Dale of Norway for my son.
The yarn is merino and it knits so much nicer. The body is almost done.

Nordic knitting

Last month I started with the course Norwegian knitting.
First thing I did learn was one handed long tail cast on. Then we started with continental knitting in one color. Being a thrower, it took a wile to get used to. In the week between classes I knitted a little hat this way.

The pattern is from the internet.
It was for my daughter, but is't to small, so I allready started on a new one.

The second lesson was on knitting continental with two colors in one hand. For most people this would be the left hand. But I knit lefthanded, so my stitches go from right to left and the yarn is on my right hand. I mastered the continental knitting quite nicely in the week between the lessons, but now have a hard time getting good tension for the second color. When I weave it between my fingers it's to tight, but I just can't master keeping tension with the yarn between the knitting and my fingers.

My needles are also to thin. I'll order a 4mm circ and then I will rip it all and start all over.

Update

Oh my, how long ago.

But the good thing is that I have more to show.

The smock jacket is done and blocking.

I'm afraid it's to large for my little girl, but she will grow.
It was fun to knit. The pattern is from Celtic Knits by Debbie Bliss. I got myself the book for Chrismas and will knit much more from it.

I'm trying something new. Toe up socks, magic loop and both socks on the needle. I like not having to juggle with all those needles but 2 together is not really my thing. I'm making up the pattern while knitting and hope they will fit.


Most of the knitting of the Peter Pan sweater is done. But I forgot to make new pictures.

Last week on my birthday my son helped me decorating the cake.

We had a lot of fun and it tasted good.