New York

Remember the project I have been working on with great zeal for a while? The New York scarf is done. The ends are woven in, but not yet cut so there is room for them to move when it is being washed. I haven't blocked it either. My mum will get the honour so she gets it just like she wants it.

From the 100 grams of wool, I got a 2,44 metre long scarf, which I'm very pleased with. 

Tonight I'll be entertaining myself with an embroidery hoop and some war in the starts. There isn't much to show yet, but hopefully there will be soon.

Knit Crush: Helga Isager

The queue function on Ravelry is amazing and only slightly dangerous. A couple of times I've ended up with a queue so long that I wouldn't be able to knit it all even if I lived to a 105. At the moment it isn't too bad. I have 18 items on the list, of which 10 are designed by the lovely Helga Isager. In addition I already have a worn out  Vanilla cardigan and a slightly faded Coral top in my wardrobe by her.

Here are some of the Helga Isager designs I dream of knitting at the moment. The pictures are lovely, but it can be difficult to see the knits in some of them. All pictures below are borrowed with permission from Helga Isager's site: amimono.dk

Amber

Lemon

Honey

Pine

Starling

Robin

Daffodil

An inventory of babyknits

We've reached the an age where there is good reason for having an inventory of babyknits. Tiny new humans keep surfacing among our friends and family, which is wonderful.

Yesterday we had a couple's dinner with 6 friends and were about to meet a less than one month old little fella for the first time. He was gifted with a pair of mittens, that will hopefully fit him next winter as well.

The suitcase that holds the inventory of babyknits is getting awfully empty, so I'll better get around to knitting some more cute things soon.

Working on a present for mum

In the spring, my parents kindly gave me a new spinning wheel, after I had spent three years learning on a used wheel, which I got for 200 DKK and made me utter sentences like "When I get a new wheel, it has to be able to..."

The new wheel is a Kromski Sonata and it opened up a whole new world to me. The kobination of a good wheel and good fibre made spinning relaxing instead of hard work. 

When I got the wheel, I decided to say 'thank you' with 100 grams Blue Face Leicester (BFL) in royal blue. It was - slowly - spun into a find two stranded yarn. My mum then had the choice of knitting something from it herself or having me knit something for her. She picked the last and asked for a scarf. 

Thus the knitting of New York by Susie Haumann began. It is a simple pattern, I quickly got the hang of, but knitting a scarf takes time! I'm about ready to knit on some of the other projects currently on the needles, so now the scarf has to be done before the weekend, where it has an opportunity for making its way to my mum.

Starry, starry night

This post is about christmas decorations and how February is the perfect (alright, maybe January is just a smidge better) month to buy them and ahem hang them in your windows.

You see, all of December (and October and November before that...) I had my eye on, no wait, I lusted for a specific christmas decoration, from a brand called Ferm Living. These items were not all that expensive relative to other christmas decorations, but my budget for such unnecessary, although beautiful items equaled zero.

Then much to my surprise, when my man and I was walking around Illums Bolighus dreaming, there they were, the items I had been wanting so badly, but couldn't justify spending the money on. I showed the to my man (again) and he really liked them and that is when I noticed they were 75% off. So two of them came home with me and I was about to pack them away for next christmas when my man said I had to hang them up now, Basta! So I did.

Have I kept you in the dark long enough? 

Want to know what I got? 

- Wooden Stars.

Do you have any seasonal specific decorations that you keep out all year long?

A peak of something new...

Here is a small peak at something new I'm working on...  (It turned into this)

And the strangest snow pattern on a lamp post I've ever seen.

Enjoy your day  -  I sure am enjoying mine.

Frogpond visit and full needles

Doing things intentionally means getting some things done, that I've wanted to do for a long time. One of those things were frogging a beautiful, but not at all functional hood and mitten set my mum had made me. You see the yarn is Manos Del Uruguay and much too good to be sitting at the bottom of our  outerwear bin. So last night I sat down and transformed this...

into this...

Then I asked on social medias what I should do with the yarn and the answer was overwhelmingly 'Make  a cowl'. Which means that I'm now pondering cowl designs... However it will be a while before I will be knitting a cowl out of this. At the moment I'm working up a storm on my mum's scarf and have just over 90cm of the 2m she wants done. Then my man has asked for mittens, which will be done by next winter I hope and my dad asked for new socks. I also have a dress on the needles for me and plans for a couple of other things for me. 

I do not like having so much on the go at once, which is why I am working exclusively on the shawl for my mum, mostly because it is made out of my own handspun and I adore working with the yarn. The scarf is working up so soft and the pattern shows really well. 

What are you working on at the moment?