Look what I got!

My own woven labels! I spent some time contemplating whether it should be "hand knit" or "hand-knitted" since the dictionary said it could be both - but now it says "Hand-knitted by ...my name...". I think they are very nice labels - nice quality. I ordered them at Scannex (a Danish company). I've also ordered some with a white background and red text saying "Made by ...my name..." so I can use them for other things as well, but they haven't been made yet.

Scarf finished

I finished my narrow stripy scarf - I'll post photos later, when I've woven in the ends and had the scarf in the washing machine.

My stash is thereby reduced with 78g, which means that I have used up 676g since February 25th. Follow my ticker at the absolute bottom of the page.

Alas, I discovered, that I probably do not have enough kid mohair to finish the Bubble Pullover from Knitting Nature, which I knit from one strand of kidmohair and one strand of wool. I'm still hoping that I can make it with what I've got, but I'm absolutely not sure. If I run out, I'll have to use up some of the amount-allowed-to-by I earned by knitting from my stash (currently ~270g). Let's see.

Progress update

I've mostly been working on the Bubble Pullover from Knitting Nature the last week - I'm now on pentagon 7, which means that very soon I'll be done with the funny pentagons and left with the boring ribbing and stockinette for the sleeves, collar and bottom - I hope I'll make it anyway, though.

I've also been knitting on the narrow stripy scarf, which will be finished in 40-50 cm, and that might be soon.

I haven't been knitting on the Somewhat Cowl - the ribbing and stockinette is tedious.

I haven't been knitting on the Color on Color Scarf either - I do not need a huge scarf for the summertime, now do I? Well, actually I'm just stuck in the first fair isle section - I've got nothing against fair isle, though, it's just all the colour changes combined with the fair isle which takes some time...

I frogged the beginning of the Flair. I think I want to make it into an oversize vest - or maybe I'll just wait 'till I come up with something better. I'm a little disappointed that the lovely linen/alpaca gray yarn, that I'm using, is dusting away while I'm knitting - on the floor, on my pants, on the chair - everywhere. I think it's meant for outdoor knitting in the summer time ;)

Next up on the needles might be the Quivit Cardigan from The Natural Knitter (lovely book) - and maybe some socks and a scarf for Peter...

I also ought to sew in the buttons of the cardigan I finished. Hmmm... maybe this weekend.

A lovely spring day in Copenhagen

The weather has been really nice here in northern Copenhagen today. The sun has been shining all day - we're reaching 20C. I went on my bike to Lyngby, where I go to the university (9km from where I live) and back again to have my glasses put back in shape - it was a nice ride, and I enjoyed the weather and the brand new green leaves and flowers on the trees. In Lyngby I even went into the LYS and touched all the yarn, but didn't buy anything! :)

It's Friday (which means that tomorrow it's weekend - yeah!), but I didn't go to the university today - I stayed at home on our sunny terraces, and knitted and read some literature on MRI.

The day before yesterday, I got these three books:

And today the VogueKnitting Magazine was in the mail - all the way from Florida. It's interesting to see the VogueKnitting magazine, however, it seems to me, that the winter edition (the previous) was more interesting than this spring edition.

And about the books --- my mom bought Knitting Nature when she went to the States last year, so I know this awesome book already (I just had to have my own!). The Natural Knitter is just as awesome as Knitting Nature - and, fortunately, the two books are very different while equally nice. (Note for my mom: you must buy "The Natural Knitter" for the library ;)). The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns - I'm sure that will come in handy (haha) several times in the future!

Cardigan and Head Wrap finished

Today and yesterday I finished the Dream Swatch Head Wrap and my mini-spring-cardigan of my own design, respectively.



The head wrap reduced my stash with 72 g - that includes the cardbord cone, that the yarn was on, since it was weighed in when I initially weighed my stash. The yarn is some ordinary somewhat shiny cotton - the leftovers from the cherry belt (below).

The cardigan is drying after the wash, and the buttons are yet to be sewn in - hence the sans me photo.

The cardigan weighs 172g, however it reduced my stash with 66 g only, since 106 g came from a never-used tank top that I frogged. The yarn contains three different strands - two cotton and one, thicker strand of silk.

By now, I have reduced my stash by 598g - still 6574g to go.

I am happy about my progress though. I picked up the Bubble Pullover from Knitting Nature again - the one which I had to frog after knitting 6 pentagons because it was too small. I'm now on pentagon 2.

Back from Easter holidays: Almost 2 FO's

So - I returned from the loveliest Easter holidays today.

During Easter I did almost no studying - I enjoyed the holidays! I finished the cherry belt completely:

The belt is 84 g. From the rest of the yarn from the belt, I'm knitting the Dream Swatch Head Wrap:

It will be finished soon. I also finished knitting the Spring-Mini-Cardigan, but I didn't sew it together yet - so, no picture and no weighing.

My mother gifted me some lovely yarn (100g) from her stash (gifts from other people's stash fortunately don't count as strikes) - I think I'll be knitting the Spiral Scarf from Knitting Nature, though I haven't decided yet - I'll decide when I get to pick up the three marvellous books waiting for me in a book store: "Knitting Nature", "The Natural Knitter" and "The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns" - mmmm, I'm looking forward!

Easter holidays and expected progress

Tomorrow I'm going on Easter holidays. I hope to finish the spring-mini-cardigan, The Somewhat Cowl and maybe even the cherry belt. Well, I have a lot of studying to do, so if I don't finish these projects, it may possibly mean that I have done the studying, that I should. Still, these months the knitting-studying equilibrium in me seems to be favouring the knitting... :)

Bubby the Bear

I have had this 24 g worsted weight odd-ball in my stash for a very long time. I the rest of the yarn to make my first ever pair of mitts like 7 years ago. I havent got any other worsted weight yarn in my stash, so I really wanted to use up this ball that didn't fit anywhere. Enter, Bubby the Bear from knitty.com.



Here's a progress shot:

When I finished Bubby I still had a tiny amount of yarn left. I didn't want to be keeping this yarn and throwing it out is not an option in my stash-reduction - so I stuffed it into Bubby's body. The rest of the stuffing is the finest merino meant for felting (maybe you can see it in the right bottom corner of the picture). By the way, when I used up the ball, I found out that the yarn was Rauma ragg meant for heavy socks (or mitts).



And there he is! Say hello to the cute little bear - I'm still thinking about a name for him.

I don't know yet whether I'll give Bubby away as a present, or if I'll keep him here with me. Let's see about that.

Bubby reduced my stash by 24g.

Amount used since February 25th: 376g. Stash left: 6796g. Amount of new yarn, I am allowed to purchase: 150,4g. It's all adding up.

Spring-item finished

Thank God it's Easter holidays! I've been looking forward to this break for a long time, and this weekend I finished the Elvira blouse (and started a new summer-mini-cardigan, which I'll show you another time):


Well, I would have preferred it to be in the light heather-colour only, but I ran out, and since I'm knitting from stash only I used the opportunity to use up all the pink kidmohair as well. I think it will do as a nice blouse for the colder spring days.

Knitted with two strands of kid mohair (B.C. yarn, a Danish company) in an easy lace pattern from a Danish knitting book.

It reduced my stash with 112g, so now I'm down to 6820g. I used up 352g since I started on February 25th - thus I am allowed to buy 140,8g (40% of the amount used), though I do not intend to do so before I have used a larger amount of my stash. I have a lot of WIPs, so I'm expecting a boom of FO's at some point.

Happy Easter knitting to y'all! :)