Finishitis

I've been on a roll lately, finishing up a lot of projects, so look forward to an FO parade coming up soon. Let's celebrate that with a crocheted garland improvised to use up this cotton/linen yarn in girly colour (i.e. not suitable for clothing for the wee one...). More details here.

A lovely day out

During my maternity leave, I've started up a new knitting group with some lovely mums I've come to know during our pregnancies. They are all beginners - 5 in total - and I started out by teaching them how to knit this vest I designed using knit stitches only. We meet approx. once a week (with the babies) and have lunch together - and try to knit a bit, too, when the wee ones allow it.

They all learnt how to knit very quickly and a few weeks ago it was time for new supplies and new projects. I emailed Sanne of Rasmilla.dk to ask if there was room for all of us in her lovely little shop (I've never been there previously, but I've heard so much about it) during regular opening hours, and she then offered to open it just for us on a Tuesday. She pulled out tea, coffee, and lemonade and I brought a cake. We stayed for, uhm, four and a half hours and had a wonderful time! Not your average yarn store :) Of course, nobody left empty-handed. My loot is shown above: 4 skeins of Rasmilla's Yndlingsgarn in my favourite colours at the moment (grey and coral) and a small embroidery kit from Karen Marie Dehn.

FO: Raven

During our summer vacation I finished my third knit from Helga Isager's most recent Amimono collection, the Bird Collection, namely the Raven dress (the first one was my Nightingale vest and the second one was the Lark baby vest). 

It's a lot of boring stockinette, but then that's how you get a fashionable garment IMHO. This is indeed a fashionable knit - it's easy to wear, the fit is great, and it's very much in line with all those knitted dresses I saw in the must recent issue of Costume (Danish fashion magazine).

Despite the amounts of stockinette it was a pleasure to knit (and a lot faster than I thought!) and great for driving on holiday 4-5 hours away from home... :)

Pattern: Raven by Helga Isager/Amimono (Rav link)
Yarn: One strand of an anonymous yarn I bought at the sheep producers' Christmas fair in Copenhagen a few years ago (I think it's of the Gotland variety) in a deep purple colour mixed with one thin strand of Posh Yarn Mimi (alpaca/silk) in the beautiful colourway The Clock Struck Midnight I managed to score 3 skeins of quite a while ago.
Needle size: 4 mm - and 3.5 mm for edges.
Size: M for length, S for width
Mods: I used short rows and kitchener stitch grafting the side seams rather than casting off stitches and sewing it together (or 3-needle bind-off as used for Robin). 
Ravelry project page: Here.