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Where do I like to knit? That's today's question in the Knitting Blog Week blog-along.
I'm afraid my answer will be rather boring - on my sofa. We have two two-seating white faux leather sofas, and the other one is my realm! There is usually at least one project on the sofa, plus some more in the craft baskets on the floor. My supplies like patterns, scissors and little booklets to write down pattern ideas and notes are stored on the livingroom/sofa table.
I must admit I really like my sofa! It's comfortable and everything is in reach. When it's cold I throw the Log Cabin blanket over my legs, when it's hot I open the window. I can watch TV from here, or just enjoy the peace (I do this especially on Sunday mornings when DH likes to sleep late).
Today's theme of the Knitting Crochet Blog Week is not a very easy one for me: a new skill I would like to learn.
I mean, sure, there are loads of skills I'd like to learn, but not one or two that I would have been thinking about a while or anything that I'd be actively working on right now (well, apart from designing, but I won't get into that this time).
As much as I would love to improve my intarsia skills, I don't have an intarsia project going on at the moment. I always say some day I will learn to crochet, but apparently the wish is not strong enough for me to actually pick up the hook!
Today's topic in Knitting Crochet Blog Week should be "One Great Knitter". But I can impossibly just name one Great Knitter, or a knitter who's work I really enjoy. But I'll try, and just name two.
Today's theme of the Knitting & Crochet Blog Week is an inspirational pattern or what I still want to aspire to do as a knitter.
I'm not an advanced knitter. Intermediate, maybe. But somehow I have understood how to read a pattern, and would not be afraid to try something advanced if I had a good pattern to follow. There are beautiful, advanced knits out there I won't most likely ever knit - but not because I would believe I'm not up to it, but because they're just too time-consuming and fiddly (thinking of very fine lace with beads here).
Today is the first day of Knitting Crochet Blog Week, and this is my first post in that series. The theme today is how I started knitting in the first place.
Like most kids in Finland, I first learned in school. Or I can't really say learned, I tried and Mum finished the items! I really didn't like knitting at all, and forgot it for years.
The weather here has been good for the last weeks - the weekdays are cold, but come weekend, it's 20 degrees and sunny! As today was the same, clear skies and warm enough to wear a t-shirt, we (= me and DH) decided to take advantage and take the train to Oberhausen, a neighbor city, and visit the Gasometer, which was also one if my 101 in 1001 list items.
Eskimimiknits is hosting a blog-along for knitters and crocheters next week, starting on Monday 26th of April. The idea is that individual bloggers can day by day post about the same topics, so that readers can read different viewpoints on the same theme from blog to blog, bloggers and readers alike can enjoy a creative community talking about their craft.
It sounds like lots of fun, so I will be joining. I also have a plan of my own to organise something not quite similar, but bringing knitters together nonetheless. Watch this space for more news during the spring!
Oh, and please stop by often next week! You can find other participants by searching for the tag knitcroblo in a search engine.
I notice again and again that I hardly ever show WIPs on my blog. Is it because I find WIPs so difficult to photograph in a pretty way, or that I usually finish my small knits so quickly that I don't have the time to blog them while they're still WIPs, I don't know. But I do know I probably won't be finishing these in the next few days, so why not show them to you already.
My April small item from stash is/are the Froot Loop socks. I've just started them and seem to be making god progress. It's so weird to knit socks after a long pause. These small, fiddly needles! The thin yarn! But I'm getting the hang of it again. Also the soy sock yarn feels really good, even though I'm not so crazy about how the striping is coming out.
I came home today and had three packets waiting for me! In one were a rice cooker and the complete Absolutely Fabulous series which I had ordered a few days back. In the second one was the book Custom Knits
But the third package was my Swap on a budget swap packet from Norway! Take a look at all the goodies in it.
Now, do you want to see what I knit during my Japan honeymoon? Here it is. A Zauberball and the pattern for the Twilight Gloaming shawl. Progress during holiday: 0 stitches! Concidering I knit on my wedding day, that gives a strong sign that I found our holiday super interesting!
But do take a look at that second picture - looks familiar? It is Nick's Eccentric sweater! I'm so happy he liked it so much to take it along and wear it during the holiday.
Like promised in my first post about this shawl, here are some better pictures of it, and some stats.
Pattern: Tulppaani shawl (link to English pattern here) from Ullaneule
Yarn: one (100g)Schoppel Zauberball in Brombeere. What a lovely, beautiful, soft sock yarn perfect for shawls!
Needles: 4 mm long circular
Modifications: I left out the last two rows, otherwise I would have run out of yarn. I don't think this modification makes any difference in the shawl.
Don't you just love the stitch pattern and the colour changes!
Sorry for the silence for the past two weeks! Maybe you'll forgive me when I tell you that I've been on my honeymoon in Japan, and frankly blogging has been the last thing on my mind!
Me and my husband had a truly wonderful trip! Here are a few impressions of the many, many things we saw and marveled at. I hope you'll give me a few days to get back on the knit blogging rhythm - I just got back yesterday and am still very much jet lagged!
