Sunday, September 30, 2007

September FOs


I finished this retro slim-fit autumn-coloured sweater. It's only slightly over 200 g and nice to wear, nicely fitting. I knitted it using the raglan template from The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns using all these nice colours from my fingering/sport weight stash (7 sts/inch on 3 mm (or was it 3.5mm?) needles). The yarn is mostly New Zealand Lambswool and Drops Alpaca - and some leftovers from the Bubble Pullover from Henrichsens Uldspinderi, and a little of Isagers silk-wool.

It used up 224 g of my stash. This sweater was my project for the September KAL on Stashalong. I finished it just before the deadline :)

I also knit a hat with crocheted flowers in cotton and mohair:


The hat is 90 g stash used.

Finally, I started these fingerless mittens at the knitter's festival on Fanø last weekend since Marianne Isager, whose course I attended, has made all the swatches in her upcoming book (which I have of course pre-ordered already) as fingerless mittens. Clever. I find this pair particularly nice:


34 g of my Drops Alpaca stash used for two of these.

This gives me a total of 348 g of stash used in September.

I did also add to my stash though. Going to the knitter's festival, a stash enhancement was almost inevitable. I bought 328 g (I bought it as 300 g but it turned out to be 328 g when I put it on the weight) of linen in a lovely deep blue-purple-ish colour (almost the same as this cute little ensian flower). I also bought some scraps of stash for an upcoming project on one of courses I attended - that was 52 g added to my pile of stash.

Total stast enhancement: 380 g.
A little more than I used but I have several projects on the needles that will make it ud for this - and before I went I had an amout-allowed-to-buy-while-following-the-Stashalong of 873 g. This is now down to 493 g.

Nice to get one of the major projects (the sweater) off the list - now I'm ready for another one: the Cherry scarf! I have already seen some lovely finished versions. Mine will be BLACK with reds. Mmmmm.

BTW - the knitter's festival on Fanø last weekend: We had a lovely time! Nice courses, good company, opportunity to meet fellow bloggers, nice weather and beautiful surroundings

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Eye Candy

Being very satisfied with my recently published post about my holiday to Northern Italy (Piemonte) and the beauty of this area, I just wanted to put a link here. It is in Danish, but the photos are nice for everyone ;)

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

This is why I love autumn

This is the front page of the new Amimono autumn collection. Uuh, it is so nice! Go and have a look! The page is now updated with opening hours - how lucky that the shop located 2,5 km from my home happens to be open on Tuesdays! ;)
Furthermore, the designer is having a (actually, 2) workshop at Fanø Strikkefestival (knitter's festival) this weekend - and I am attending it!

Add to that the the new knitty.com patterns are up.

These are some good reasons for loving the feeling of autumn in the air.