Results tagged “yarn”

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".

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.

Wow, this took me quite a while to get around to blogging about this. Blame it on the exams.

Anyway, last weekend I went to the opening of the Wollmeise's brick & mortar store and had an absolutely wonderful time there.

Start: 29th May 2009
Finished: WIP
Needles: 2.25 mm Clover Takumi Bamboo DPNs
Yarns: Zitron Trekking "Pro Natura"; 75% new wool superwash, 25% bamboo; colour #1501 "natural", #1507 "red"
Pattern: "Nordisch inspiriert" from "Socken aus aller Welt" by Stephanie van der Linden
Modifications: Added 20 stitches of red/white chequered (10 on each side), so total of 90 sts., to accommodate for my size...hopefully it will be enough. In order to avoid a very long toe area (did Judy Magic Cast-on - starting off with 22 sts., i.e. 11 on each needle - instead of short-rowing the toe), I increased up to 70 sts. in total and on the even round of the last increase, I also increase 20 sts. evenly spread out, then an even round before pattern begins. Knit according to the pattern, adding three chequered pattern repeats to the main pattern to accommodate my foot length, knit one round in MC at the same time, decreasing 10 sts from the sole of the foot and knit the short-row heel as in the pattern up to when knitting in MC in the round for 5 rnds. Inc. 10 sts on the sole on the 4th rnd., k rnd even and then join CC to knit the leg. 5 repeats of 20 rows chequered pattern, break CC and knit cuff in k2tbl, p2 ribbing for 10 rnds, dec. 22 sts on the second round.

Start: 13th February 2009
Finish: 21st February 2009
Needles: 7 mm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Lang Yarns "Tierra"; 45% merino, 37% acrylic, 18% polyamide; Colour #712.0094; Dye lot #5002
Pattern: Model 28, from Filati Men Special 5

Hi World,

I'm re-surfacing again after having been sick and coughing up my lungs (the coughing still lingers, but my lungs seem to still be intact).

Anyway, remember that I mentioned something about wanting to make a turtle-neck jumper with bulky yarn? Well, as you can see, it has been done!

Hey there! Sorry for my scarceness....but I've been spending loads of time over at my boyfriend's place lately. :-D As a result, there isn't any FO or WIP pictures to show (yet). Sorry, but I've also been pretty uninspired to take pictures lately.

However, I'm not that uninspired to cast-on countless pairs of socks. Like I have mentioned in the previous post, I've cast on a pair of Boyfriend Socks for myself. I'm on to the second one now....but still haven't taken any decent photos yet. So, you'll just have to wait for the FO picture.

Yarnissima's Brainless is being put on hold while I'm working on the BF socks....just too much cabling for me.

I found out from my boss at Lanaiolo after I've finished my Riverbed silk socks out of the OnLine Silk that OnLine is discontinuing that line....or well, they haven't got it in their up-coming season. There are two other colourways (one of them being in the above photo, the other one is HERE) that I really like of the yarn, and seriously, I really like the feel of the silk blend yarn, too! So, what else is a knitter to do apart from grab them before they're gone. :-p (If anybody wants the yarn, we still have them at the shop - also in other colourways -....and you can order online via us, too. :-p)

Anyway, because the BF socks and Brainless are giving me too much cabling, I decided that I need to cast on for a simpler pair of socks and decided to grab the skein in the above picture and cast on for a pair toe-up Jaywalkers. Simple enough, but won't be too boring for me. ;-) Pictures will follow. :-p

So, talking about Lanaiolo, the second Knit-Night in 2009 is this Friday. Most of you that know the shop probably will be there anyway....but I think that we're pretty full already. Heck, give us a call if you want to see whether you can pop in. ;-)

Start: 22nd December 2008
Finish: 30th December 2008
Needles: 2.5 mm Inox DPNs
Yarn: Regia Silk; 55% Merino, 25% polyamide, 20% silk; Colour #091, Lot #29770
Pattern: Boyfriend Socks by Slippedstitch
For: The boyfriend

Well, I managed to squeeze in the very last FO of 2008!

I finished the Boyfriend Socks in record time of about a week! Yay! That's quite something for me...but it also means that I have to knit on only one project the whole time. :-p

I'm seeing my boyfriend tonight, so he'll be receiving it....he doesn't know yet. ;-)

Start: 03rd October 2008
Finish: 26th October 2008
Needles 4 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: GGH Cashmere Fino; 100% Cashmere; colour #10 (grey) and #7 (sand)
Pattern: Generic 1x1 rib scarf with slip stitch edge, 2 alternating colour blocks.

This was the first time ever that I worked with pure cashmere. The yarn itself has a woven structure, another kind of yarn that I have never worked with before.

Cashmere is definitely a luxurious fibre. It's really soft to the touch and the fabric knitted from it provides great warmth without adding to the weight (the whole scarf weighs approximately 135 g). The yarn has a light halo to it (I would say - if I remember correctly - due to the short staple length of cashmere). The woven structure of this particular yarn didn't affect the appearance of the knitted fabric. It seems to help make the knitted fabric flatter than a plied yarn would.

Knitting pure cashmere was not that easy either. Due to the loftiness of the yarn, I had to take care that I don't knit a dense fabric, so the gauge has to be just right. This posed a problem for me, since I am a tight knitter: The appearance of the stitches at the beginning of the scarf appeared a bit uneven. The same thing happens when I put the scarf down for a period to work on other projects. When I picked up the scarf to knit again, my stitch appearance would turn uneven again. Thank goodness a good (light and non-aggressive, i.e. steam) blocking helps even out the stitch appearance.