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The sad sweater you read about a while back is sad no more - it's done and gorgeous!
Now this is a truly modular sweater. Part top-down, part bottom-up, part both: one sleeve is top-down, one bottom-up and still I had to rip and reknit both cuffs as they were too short (like the hem, too). I'm so proud of myself not giving up on this project; I didn't even want to at any point!
I made a Rinsessa hat for myself last winter, and am loving it still! So this winter I decided to knit myself a thick, wide scarf with the same rinsessa-mock-cable stitch. So I took the Rinsessa scarf pattern (in Finnish), modified it a bit for thicker yarn and started knitting.
Here are the stats:
Pattern as mentioned above
Needles: 4mm
Yarn: Novita Anni wool blend (40% wool, 35% acrylic, 25% polyamide), the leftovers from my Bramblewood vest, ca 250 grams
Modifications: cast on 63 stitches. It says one should cast on a number dividable by six to make the pattern match, but I found it looked better with the extra three stitches aka half the pattern repeat in it - that way both edges look the same.
Last autumn I suddenly remembered my love for the band Green Day and went to see them in concert even. For a while I felt like the fangirl I used to be 10 years ago - it felt fantastic! So when I learned that Billie Joe's wife Adrienne Armstrong is a knitter and has made a book with Vickie Howell, and learned that the book will be concentrating on ecologically conscious knitting (something very close to my heart), I just had to get the book!
I'm heading to my local animal shelter's Easter Bazar tomorrow morning, and have some knits ready for it.
I've made some bulky hats:
Pattern - Chunky Button Hat
Yarn - Filati Funky, a really bulky wool / acrylic mix. This happens to be the first yarn I ever knit in my "new knitter life" in 2006!
Needles - 10 mm dpns (!)
Modifications - I did change the crown of some of these hats, plus I attached no buttons, but made pom poms instead.
Two of these I can count to my Hamster month total - the annual Finnish knit from stash exclusively KAL.
I might be able to count the lovely, lovely Esel as well. Esel means Donkey in German, and that's the name of this pattern. I received it as a copy from a book - I have no idea who the designer is and from which book the pattern is copied from!
I finally did it! This is my first knitting pattern I offer for sale. It's called the Kuebel hat, and I love it!
I originally made this hat for my husband, who is the prime example of people who cannot wear a woolen hat longer than 10 minutes before it starts to itch them. He also gets cold easily, so if I were to make him a hat, it would need to be warm.
So I had this idea of a two-layer hat, where the inside would be soft and non-itchy and the outside really warm and covering the ears. I'm really bad at double knitting, so I decided to knit two hats separately. But I also hate seaming, so I knit the hats one at a time, but using the same cast-on edge.
Behold the Kuebel hat was born! Now this hat knitting pattern is available for you to purchase, as well.
I finally put up an About page - now you can read a bit on who I am, what I do and what this blog is about. Please feel free to comment or ask a question if there's anything else you'd like to know!
I also brought my feed links (blog, patterns and book reviews)to a more visible spot on the site - see them (and subscribe!) just below the Twitter bird on the purple link bar at the right hand side. The archive is now in the footer, so just scroll a bit and you'll find it.
"Lagoon", set of five
For needles up to 6mm / US size 10
Length of markers is ca. 2,5 cm
Handmade with love using glass pearls
Price: 4,5 € + postage
"Low bling in green and red", set of five
For needles up to 6mm / US size 10
Length of markers is ca. 2,5 cm
Handmade with love using glass and acrylic pearls
Price: 4 € + postage
Hi, I'm Worsted Knitt - welcome to my knitting site!
This is where I talk about knitting, yarn, my stitch markers, the books I've read and my quest to "tread lightly on this earth" - to live simply, consciously, with less. On this site you will find fun projects, charity knits, knitting patterns, designer interviews, book reviews and tips and resources on making the world a better place.
Who is Worsted Knitt?
I haven't done a "look-what-I-found-on-the-Interwebz" post for a long long time! Better to catch up later than never, no?
First, I found this great kitchener stitch tutorial on Youtube. It's really clear and straightforward - take a look!
This video shows a rather interesting way to darn a sock. It really looks sturdy! I actually have a sock to repair, so I might try this soon.
This stitch mark tutorial is reall popular at the moment! I make mine quite differently, though.
Poor sweater, what have I done to you?
This is a sad story about a top-down raglan sweater, which had an "accident" and has now become a bottom-up raglan sweater. Let me start from the beginning...
A while back I finally started on my husband's sweater. I decided on bulky yarn and a top-down raglan recepie for calculating my own gauge. So I measured my tall and skinny husband, I measured my gauge swatch and started knittting. I made him try the sweater on again and again, and everything seemed just fine. Until the sweater body and one sleeve were finished. That's when I noticed I had made way too many raglan increases - the armpit of the sweater was at least two inches too low, giving the sweater a batwing-kind of sleeve look and loads of extra fabric at the armpit.
