Knitting - not blogging

This has been a quiet corner this fall. N started daycare in August and now it's middle of November. What happen?
At least I have a few projects to show now, mostly completed (not from the UFO file unfortunately).

Here they are in separate entries !

I'll try to show things more often again.

See you soon :-)

Knitting again - some progress

I have finished one project! The baby cardigan is done and now in the mail to P, as a late gift for his Christianing. The yarn is Opal cotton sockyarn that I bought at Warp&Waft yarn sale last year (I think). The pattern is my favorite one, Strawberry bud, from a Rowan book.

I'm stuck :-(

It was WWKIPD this/last Saturday and I was there. Unfortunately it rained and was cold so we moved indoors to Maria. (see also her pictures). It was my first social knitting this Spring (apart for the HV school weekends). It was so fun meeting everyone there and I managed to do a few rows. Anna helped me discover that I'm knitting a cardigan WAY too big and need to frog and redo.... kind of made me sad, my knitting status now is:

• Bloomsberry, packed in a bag - again
• Two-end mittens, subway knitting, getting closer to the end of the second one - it feels so odd to knit mittens in June.
• Baby cardigan, should have been a gift for a christianing last weekend, went away to finish it and forgot to buy buttons (National Holiday and everythings closed) - still not ready
• Nice Spring cardigan "Geno" for myself in green. Needs to be frogged and recalculated...uhhh

Time to stop whining - I think I need yet a new project - knitting should be fun!!!!

Street knitting (in Swedish)

If you havn't seen it yet. Take a look at this!
http://webbtv.dn.se/?id=3905

Mothers Day and color inspiration

Today is Mothers Day in Sweden and we went to Skansen, an open air museum in Stockholm. Here is one of the new cubs giving her mother a pet?!.

N enjoyed all the animals and of cause also the ice cream she got. I got inspired by the colors of this peacock. Imaging this knitted.......

I almost made it and a mitten

I didn't have time to finish all 5 projects until today. One excuse is that I spend too much time knitting (maybe the best excuse there is). I'm done with the "body" of the first two-end knitted mitten and will start on the thumb now, and then the second mitten of cause.

However I did complete 4 of the 5 project. Here is N in her new eco (cotton) cardigan. I've used this cardigan to practice on the new ways to finsh that I learned at HV school. I like the result and it wasn't too tricky.


The project that is still a UFO is my Bloomsberry cardigan. This has been in progress (hybernating) for years. I love the yarn (Rowans' wool cotton) and I like the model as well. I think what made me reluctant to pick it up is the embroderies. It's difficult to make them look good. Well I'll continue working on this but I don't think I'll put up a new deadline. The mitten is there in the picture, but difficult to see.

Big yarn day and slow progress

Yesterday was the "Big Yarn Day" at Warp &Weft with discounts on Fall and Winter yarns.

I came home with 4 skeins of Lovvika Yarn to do mittens, and a cotton reel - a gift for N.

This is a crazy time to think of more mittens considering it will be above 25C this weekend but my youngest niece got her black mittens washed in the machine so they are "a little too small" as she puts it. Same rule as before is valid, when a girl asks for a knitted item it's irresistible.

I have slow progress right now, only three days to go and I have two things to complete.... Better get started tomorrow.

I continue to scare other passengers on the subway in the mornings with 5 sharp needles and a half-finished two-end knitting.