Results tagged “FO”

N97 mini Verhüterli, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 25th July 2010
Finish: 01st August 2010
Needles: 2.5 mm - 80 cm Addi Turbo
Yarns: Wollmeise 100% Merino Superwash in "Veilchen" and "Granatapfel" (using the rest that I have from weaving)
Pattern: Judy Magic CO 48 sts, knit the round for the first round then add the colour on the second round *2 red, 2 purple* for the total of two rounds, then move over one stitch and continue in the same manner until the new colour lines up with the second round, then start going back the original way to make a zigzag pattern

Norræna hættuspil, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 28th December 2009
Finish: 13th January 2010
Needles: 3 mm Addi Lace for ribbing and 4 mm Addi Turbo for the rest
Yarn: Schachenmayr Nomotta "Shetland Alpaka"; 50% new wool, 25% baby alpaca, 25% mohair; Colours #9225 (natural, lot #6535), #9211 (light brown, lot #6532), #9293 (dark brown, lot #6533), #9262 (light blue, lot #6537) - 9 skeins of the natural colour, otherwise one skein each
Pattern: "Pullover in Karisma Superwash" from Garnstudio Drops Design
Modifications: Won't be making the turtle-neck, but instead make it a round-neck, since the yarn is too scratchy for bare skin. Knitting the children's size for fit, but lengthening everything using the adult's small size.
Name: "Norræna hættuspil" is Icelandic and should mean "Nordic venture"

Black Opal, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 25th October 2008
Finish: 19th December 2009
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Sockenwolle, 100% Superwash Merino in Blue Suzanne (dark)
Needles: 3.5 mm - 80 cm Addi Turbos
Pattern: Clapotis by Kate Gilbert from Knitty Fall 2004.

L'Antithèse, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 14th December 2009
Finish: 15th December 2009
Needles: 5 mm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Wolle Roedel "Soft-Merino"; 100% Merino Superwash (100 m - 50 g); Colour #393 (Grey), Lot #166; used up 2 balls
Pattern: Winging this one myself. Based on Scrumptious Neck Warmer (Ravelry link) by Kristin Goedert

Nikolaus Present from Wollmeise, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

...by getting a pair of fingerless mitts for Nikolaus from a great friend, the Wollmeise herself.

I don't know which pattern she used. There are several similar patterns to be found on Ravelry. The colourway she used was "Okzident" from the Sock-Club set from March 2009. I will definitely knit myself a pair, but I will need to add a longer thumb gusset to it, so that my thumbs won't be so exposed.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 18th February 2009
Finished: 31st October 2009
Yarn: Regia 4-Ply Sierra Colour (75% virgin wool, 25% polyamide; 100 g / approx. 420 m); colour no. #5547 "Ethno"
Needle: 2.5 mm Inox DPNs
Pattern: No particular pattern....just toe up plain stockinette socks with master numbers from Cat Bordhi's Sockitecture. Probably could categorise the pattern to the Universal Toe-Up socks, since I'm planning to do short-row heel on this one.

Smokin', originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 12th October 2009
Finish: 22nd October 2009
Needles: 6 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Schachenmayr Nomotta Extra Tweed; 95% wool, 5% viscose; colourway #0099 (Black); yarn held double; used up the totall of 18 balls (actually about 17 balls weight-wise).
Notions: 5 crescent horn buttons
Pattern: "Smokin'" by Jared Flood, aka Brooklyn Tweed; from the book "Son of Stitch 'n Bitch"
Size knitted: S
Modifications: Pockets are done by set-in pocket linings instead of just sewing the linings on to the outside of the jacket. I also replaced the leather cased buttons for crescent horn buttons instead.

Portland, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 31st January 2009
Finish: 10th October 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace and 4.5 mm / 60 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: GGH "Cumba"; 42% new wool, 28% alpaca, 30% acrylic; Colour #001, dye lot #8072271; Used up 7 balls and a bit of the 8th ball in total
Pattern: "Portland" by Lisa Lloyd from the book "A Fine Fleece - Knitting with Handspun Yarns"
Modifications: Lengthened the sleeves and added back-neck shaping to the collar.

George, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 18th September 2009
Finish: 05th October 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarns: GGH "Cumba"; 42% new wool, 28% alpaca, 30% acrylic; colours #014 (anthracite), #020 (turquoise)
Pattern: "George" by Jane Ellison in the Queensland Collection Book 9
Size: XS
Modifications: No turned-cuffs for the sleeves. CO less sts than required and then increased the sts. Knitted the edge band in one piece instead of dividing it. Also changed the buttonholes from the right-front to the left-front.

Sorry about the long silence. The backlight on my laptop screen has decided to give up a month ago and I still haven't got a new laptop. Right now, I just make-do with tilting the screen back to an angle and shining two lamps onto the screen, which allows me to see what's going on, but is pretty straining on the eyes, since everything is quite dark. Anyway, having left my blog idle for such a long time is really making me restless. So, I thought that I should update anyway, since the photos are already there.

I really used my offline time very well. I mean, I couldn't get online at home and the only entertainment I had were books, TV, music and knitting. So I got very prolific with knitting and have some FOs to show and this here is the first one.

As the weather is turning cooler, I have been trying to get warm by putting on warmer garments at home instead of turning on the heater, just to save energy (and the costs that entail). I have been meaning to knit myself more cardigans and jackets, because I like the fact that I put them on and take them off easily without so much fuss that comes with jumpers. To my dismay however, the only jacket I have is the Janker I knitted three years ago. So, I set out to knit myself cardigans and jackets.

I can't exactly recall when and where I first saw Jane Ellison's Queenlands Collection Book 9, but I remember distinctly that I was mesmerised with the patterns in that book. I set out to get a copy of the book but couldn't find anyone who carried it in Europe. Online queries to shops in the USA who carry the book bore no fruits (i.e. they didn't even bother to answer) and so I didn't think much of it until recently.

This brilliant idea came to me out of nowhere. A friend of mine from Munich emigrated to New York a while ago and so I thought that I would ask her to find the book for me. As my luck would have it, she actually found an LYS who carried the book and bought it and sent it to me.

The cardigan "George" had caught my eyes ever since I have seen the preview of the book on the internet and since I have been seeing this kind of cardigan in shops everywhere, I have vowed to knit myself that cardigan. And there was the opportunity.

Alvin, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 05th August 2009
Finish: 17th September 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarns: Filatura di Crosa "Zara"; 100% superwash merino; colours #1468 (grey) 4 balls, #1424 (navy blue) 3 balls and #1469 (anthracite) 1 ball
Pattern: "Alvin" by Jane Ellison in the Queensland Collection Book 9
Size: XS

Lómelindë (Gail), originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 09th August 2009
Finish: 25th August 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace
Yarn: Wollmeise Sockenwolle; 100% superwash merino; colourway "Versuchskaninchen" (test-dye for Tuerkis)
Pattern: Gail - Nightsongs by QQCoisa
Name: "Lómelindë" is Quenya for "Nightingale" (literally: lómë = night; lindë = song)
Location: A wall of the Bavarian National Museum and at the Nornenbrunnen (in German).

Joukahainen Ruiskukasta, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 14th July 2009
Finish: 14th August 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Wollmeise "Molly"; 100% superwash Merino; colourway "Kornblume"
Pattern: Joukahainen by Kristel Nyberg. Published in Finnish in the magazine Ulla 03/07. Pattern is available as an English translation as Ravelry download.
Name: "Joukahainen Ruiskukasta" should say something along the line of "Joukahainen out of Cornflower" (I'm just playing on the colourway name).
Modifications: Alternating the skeins after every second round to spread out the pooling.

Eärë (Seascape), originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 08th August 2008
Finished: 01st May 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace
Yarn: GGH "Kid Melange", colour 004, lot 8002451
Pattern: Seascape by Kieran Foley from Knitty Summer 2008 issue
Modifications: I added extra repeats to make the stole longer.
Notes: "Eärë" is Quenya for "The Open Sea"...closest I could think of coming to "Seascape".

Neptune (Le Mystique), originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 21st June 2009
Finish: 11th July 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Wollmeise "Molly"; 100% superwash Merino; colourway "Neptun"
Pattern: Joukahainen by Kristel Nyberg. Published in Finnish in the magazine Ulla 03/07. Pattern is available as an English translation as Ravelry download.
Name: The name comes from the last movement of the orchestral suite The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Modifications: Added 5 rounds of stockinette after having joined all the pieces together to give the arms some more room. Added k2 between the raglan decreases to avoid the gaping holes. Did some improvisational neck-shaping with short rows. Worked out pretty well.

Topaz, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 14th May 2009
Finish: 16th May 2009
Needles: 5.5 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: GGH "Tara"; 72% Cotton, 28% Nylon; colour #25 pink, #23 orange
Pattern: "Topaz" by Yumiko Sakurai in Knitty, Spring 2009
Modification: Also did a single crochet edge around the arms and the straps.
For: Little Miss Müller

Halfdome for Jason, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 9th May 2009
Finish: 10th May 2009
Needles: 3 mm / 80 cm and 3.5 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarns: CC using Lanartus "Brando", colour 1468 "Grey", MC using Filatura di Crosa "Zara" colour 1466 "Red"
Patterns: "Halfdome" by Jesse Loesberg, aka Yarn Boy, in Knitty Summer 2006
For: Jason P.

Last week, I found out that an internet friend, Jason, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March and was going through chemo, had recently received some pretty bad news about his condition, i.e. the cancer is spreading and there's not much else that can be done....

A whole load of people over at Men Who Knit are knitting squares to be assembled into a blanket for Jason. However, at the rate the cancer is going, the blanket has to be done fast and so the deadline to send in the squares over to the USA is for the end of May (find more info HERE). Actually this wouldn't have been the problem for me, but I just can't get the required yarn easily enough here in Germany. Besides, I know that Jason is based here in Europe, so it wouldn't make much sense for me to send something over to the USA, only to have it be sent back to Europe again.

So, I sent off an email to Jason - and I'm happy to have heard back from him - and told him that I'm going to send something off directly to him. I would have loved to knit him a blanket, but I won't make it in time, so something fast has to be knitted up. And what's better than a kind of chemo cap for a sexy chap who has lost his hair? ;-)

I've never knitted anything for someone with cancer before, so I don't know how sensitive they are. I thought that 100% merino should be fine....we'll see. As for the pattern, I thought that it shouldn't be a full hat because the weather is getting warmer, but should still offer some warmth and so Halfdome was the perfect choice.

Halfdome is a super fast knit. I like it, but I didn't like the fact that there's a seam (although to tell you the truth, you can't feel it...but for someone who hasn't got hair, you might be able to feel it).

I'm going to knit another one in the round instead and send it off to Jason along with this one.

Ishbel-Jezebel, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 4th May 2009
Finish: 7th May 2009
Needles: 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace
Yarn: Wollmeise 100% merino superwash Sockenwolle in "Wellensittichvogelfeder" (dark)
Pattern: "Ishbel" from Whimsical Little Knits by Isolda Teague
Modification: Stockinette done in smaller size and the lace part in the bigger size.
Shooting location: At the base of Friedensengel, Munich

FO: Rothko's No.5 / No.22, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Start: 6th March 2009
Finished: 18th April 2009
Needles: 4 mm and 4.5 mm Addi Turbos
Yarns: GGH "Linova"; 74% cotton, 26% linen; 4 balls of #35 "Hummer", 5 balls of #36 "Orange" and 2 balls of #6 "Red"
Pattern: "Minikleid in Rottoenen", model no. 29 from Rebecca Magazine #39. Ravelled.
For: Knitted for the shop - Lanaiolo
Modification: Knitted the body in the round up to the armhole point, then knitted the front and back separately back and forth. Sleeves are knitted according to the pattern, but used the size for 40/41 instead because the sleeves for 38/39 seemed to turn out tiny. I substituted the small striping from the pattern's #23 "red-brown" to #06 "Red".