tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52480159744257526862012-01-26T14:59:09.720ZMy crafts projects all in one placeGisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-56790294719460177662012-01-26T14:12:00.002Z2012-01-26T14:59:09.725Z

Here is a summary of the Sock Sisterrs dates and how you can access further details about the monthly sock knitting group, - meeting in central London, UK. Dates: Mon 12 December 2011 Mon 9 January 2012 Thu 9 February 2012 - Royal Festival Hall Check out the following for more info: Meetup group - you can set your RSVP here and also find out about any last minute changes Ravelry group -

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Just to ruminate about where my knitting is at these days.  Here's a mini update on the two works in progress that I'm the most excited about (and let's just leave the other 16 or so aside for now, shall we? ...oh lovely. Glad you feel the same way). I bought this German knitting magazine, called Rebecca.  It has a long-sleeved wrap (with long strips that tie at the back) in it that literally

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I'm quite excited: I've wanted to start sewing, (dressmaking really but at this stage I'm not fussy: any sewing will do), for absolutely ages. About three years counting from when I got myself a new sewing machine. It's been going... not well. Out of five projects I failed on five.  I think. I got all sorts of things wrong: I hadn't figured out how to set the stretch stitch properly for the

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Two's company, three's a crowd Guess what this is! Yes indeed, it is three sleeves. How did that happen?  Well, here's where the lessons in knitting come in: Once you knit sleeve number 1 with specific needles, then do go ahead and knit sleeve number 2 with the exact self same needles!  It will save time and effort.  It will! This is because: Even though short DPNs and long DPNs say that

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Seeing as I blogged about Dad's Christmas present, here is Mum's too (now that she's got it and I can't spoil the surprise by posting about it on here too soon). This was ably modelled by my friend Pam. Thank you! Here's a bit more of a close up: I thought I did well on the size.  I had to guesstimate and thought that at six repeats it wouldn't remain too small.  Yeah right!  I had no

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Socks for Dad, Christmas present. The yarn is XXL Trekking in the Deep Blue colourway 451.  There are bits of purple and very short bits of a darker blue in there too.  It is very subtle which I love.  I think the following photo shows the colours quite well. I would like to believe that this yarn makes for very good men's socks. I didn't want to add too much design.  So I thought

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Woohoo!  I am starting a monthly sock knitting club.  By club I mean a get-together of like-minded people who like to sit and chat, knit socks, talk socks, compare socks and generally motivate each other - with any kind of DPN knitting. Do you like knitting socks?  Do you live in London and would like to come along? We could swap ideas about patterns, help each other with oddly worded

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I love the idea: a sew-along for a bag that you can use for crafts projects.  What an utterly brilliant idea to use up some of my fabric stash. I might even get a nice gift out of this, you never know.  Unless of course I like the bag so much that I can't help but keep it. I came across this on Google+ (love that site).  Here is a link to Knit Purl Gurl's blog explaining the sew-along. You can

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So, I'm doing it again. I had promised myself not to do this again... If I remember correctly that's exactly what I was thinking last year too! And same result: yup, you've guessed it - I will be knitting some Christmas presents again this year after solemnly promising myself that this year I wouldn't. Various reasons: I might not pick something the other person will really like (liking in

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I just realised that I have a photo of a sewing project that I didn't just attempt but completed.  It's not a garment but something very useful nevertheless: The inside of my handbag.  This is a pretty cheap bag from one of those luggage stores lining the high street.  I even got a little off because I haggled.  I didn't do that very gracefully but I wouldn't have bought it for the full price.

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A few months back (apology for my tardiness) I went along to the opening of the Sewing Room.  This is the second location around the corner from Beyond Fabrics, a wonderful quilting fabric and crafts items shop on Columbia Road. They offer courses and workshops in this location. There are four places equipped with sewing machines. The fabric shop Beyond Fabrics on Columbia Road itself is very

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Move along now, nothing much to report... My knitting is still languishing quite a bit.  The only 'update' I have is those projects that I didn't say anything about in my last post. This is a close-up shot of my Drops Viscose Cotton top in purple.  I love the yarn, it is so smooth and glossy and sumptuous!  A bit splitty so you have to pay attention to where you put the tips of your needle

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If my knitting was a car then it would be, well, stuttering.  Not really going anywhere, spits and starts, and definitely no real sense of purpose let alone progress! I haven't blogged in a little while so I thought I might as well post a screen grab of my current WIPs: That's without those projects that I've sent into Ravelry hibernation, just so I don't have to look at them every time I

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I've just had the most brilliant insight ever. Well, it feels like 'ever' because something became so exceedingly clear only just now.  It probably should have been obvious but I never considered it before. I have been puzzled by the way I knit and use yarn.  I thoroughly enjoy the whole process: from buying yarn (yep, I'm an addict), to looking at patterns and selecting the one that spoke

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I went to Franklin Habit's wonderful class at Knit Nation called 'Photographing your fibre' and it was a great workshop. I finally learnt the basics of photography - that's where all those seemingly tricky settings on your photo camera come in!  And surprise, surprise: they don't seem all that tricky, or certainly not difficult at all, when someone explains them to you in connection with the

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Knit Nation 2011 was lovely!  I thoroughly enjoyed the market place and bought way too much yarn (definitely not a surprise, I knew I would and everyone who knows me knew I would as well.) And Franklin Habit's class 'Photographing Your Fibre' was brilliant! I tend to cycle through my hobbies.  Knitting has been the thing for the last two and half year when it was other things before. 

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I'm off to Knit Nation tonight!  I can't wait! The list of vendors reads terrifically wonderful: utterly, utterly tempting! Just take a look: Anova Books Artisan Yarns Atomic Knitting Blacker Designs & Yarns Brownberry Yarns Cocoknits Debonnaire Easyknits GMC Publishing Great British Yarns Habu Textiles Jeanette Sloan John Arbon Textiles Juno Fibre Arts Knitting Magazine Krafty Koala Loop

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I finished a few more projects (yay to me!) - I'll need to write them up gradually.  I must have put more time into knitting and finishing things than writing about them.  Not the worst way round of doing things! So here's the white jumper in Gedifra Amara. Pattern:   Seamless jumper by Elizabeth Zimmermann From:       Knitting Without Tears I have a feeling that this yarn is being

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Glad you like it, I just flung that on and off my needles, nothing to it... Yeah right, as if!! It took me almost exactly a year.  A year of this mainly lying around.  I got the yarn in a sale (yup, there was a reason why this was cheap) and as soon as I knitted with it, I realised why.  This is called haspel silk and it looks gorgeous: lustreous, smooth, like liquid steel... Lovely!

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I'm sure you've been there: you were enthusiastically knitting, crocheting, dressmaking, whatever... - it was all going so well!  You got very close to the finish line: you cast off your knitting, did the last bit of crochet, machine stitched the last hem... and nothing. Dead stop in the water. Those pesky finishing touches!  Loose threads to weave in, seams to sew or crochet up, buttons to sew

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I am so excited!  I managed to snag myself a place on a specific class at this year's Knit Nation taking place 15 - 17 July at Imperial College. I liked the description of many classes but didn't feel that I would get lots out of them.  I am happy enough to look for info about things I don't know yet, either online or by asking others.  But there is one class that I would give my eye tooth for!

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Here is the second short-sleeved top that slipped into my queue at the time: Debbie Bliss Prima - loosely following a Drops pattern but I modified this quite a bit because my gauge was very different.  I also didn't knit the sleeves separately to join into the yoke but did a temporary cast-on for those stitches and knit the sleeves back down.   Which means that the zigzag pattern in the sleeves

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I just realised that I forgot to blog about some of my recent completed objects. Hats. There's even two of them. The Star crossed slouchy beret. Good fun to knit. And also the Owl hat: But why or why did I finish them just as the weather has turned so nice that April is pretending to be summer? My timing is seriously off... After blocking over a dinner plate (which works surprisingly well)

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Bad play on words?  Well, this is about my knitting and not any typing exercises nor hedges. This post is really the second part of my previous post, about my stash, suffering from startitis and the soul-gnawing result of too many WIPs that I seem incapable of reducing in number. Startitis and me: we seem destined to remain footpath companions for a while longer on that long and winding road

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This is a post in two parts. About that startitis thing... A thought: I have two annoying problems to do with knitting: I have way too many WIPs and I've got a way too big stash.  Which means I have a real bad case of startitis -plus- ! the means to indulge in it too. A bad combination? I've been trying to reduce the number of my works in progress.  I have to say that that doesn't work.  All I

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It is a very pleasant thing when you hope to do something and you accomplish it within a reasonable amount of time. I mentioned in my last blog post that I would like to do something about two sewing projects that are lying around, crying out to get picked up again, and a green top that needed very little to go from 95% to all done! And here it is, I've done it!  (It 'only' took ten months): 

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-38448063418182764802010-12-31T20:11:00.007Z2010-12-31T22:27:24.230Z

I don't do new year's resolutions, the last one (and only one?) that I kept was years ago when I decided I would never make another one.  I am still pleased at avoiding all that guilt! But I do have hopes for the future.  Not necessarily just the new year, but things to do at the time when they feel right. I have a few days off before it's back to work, - and here's what I'd love to get busy on

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-47352086363147515342010-12-30T14:47:00.000Z2010-12-30T14:47:55.910Z

Finishing my beautiful dark red cable panel socks made me very happy.  I was very, very pleased with them!  Such a nice thing to experience this glow and sense of achievment when a project turns out well.  It pushes you onwards... I was so enthused that I started my next project straight away.  More socks!  (The blog post title has to refer to something!) I am calling them my Frosted Spires

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-90995823790301844062010-12-27T15:53:00.000Z2010-12-27T15:53:35.260Z

An end to a long labour. This project is finally finished. Which is a minor miracle, seeing how long it took me. YarnMirasol Qina Needles5 mm PatternElizabeth Zimmermann's Green Sweater fromSchoolhouse Press   I just looked back at previous blog posts about this cardigan and I am flabbergasted to find that it is the project I mentioned the most: in a massive five posts! Not that you

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-79192989993063337172010-12-27T14:38:00.000Z2010-12-27T14:38:23.496Z

This was meant to be a quick project to take to knit evenings with me and motor through the stocking stitch.  I also wanted to use up my stash of only 300 grams of this - bought a couple of months ago because I liked the colour.  Never mind that it won't be the season to wear this for a long while yet! I am very aware that I need to reduce my yarn stash, it has taken on ridiculous proportions,

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-89111778653599132242010-12-26T12:54:00.003Z2010-12-27T14:09:04.884Z

I decided not to make any Christmas gifts this year after making one each for my family last year and getting rather stressed out over finishing in time.  I have no idea what happened next because I ended up making not just one or two, but five to last year's six.  I definitely surprised myself there by being a lot more altruistic when I'd made my mind up to be selfish! How odd... Here they are:

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My dark red socks are done!  I'm so pleased: The colour in the third photo is lots closer to reality.  Very much more red than purple! YarnSweet Clement - Beloved Needles2.75 mm PatternMeander SourceFree pattern by Lisa Stichweh on Ravelry This is the first project in a while that incorporates cables.  A fact I only realised once I'd set my heart on the pattern and started the top

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I went completely doolally, you can't call it anything else.  On Monday evening I went along to the Bothered Owl's event: a Christmas Yarn Party. I knew I shouldn't take along a lot of cash because I'd get tempted.  Well, I did, and I indulged more than I meant to (yes, there was another visit to the cashpoint, but at least only one... does that count?). There were a number of independent yarn

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-91865752140908043862010-11-28T15:19:00.000Z2010-11-28T15:19:00.882Z

I just realised that I never blogged about my second quilting project (not counting the pot-holders) from last year. Here it is: A view of the inside: And the whole thing laid flat (I inserted a zipper across the diagonal in the bottom layer): Here are a few views of the assembly process: I since discovered that I am not using the correct techniques because I am basically self-taught.  I

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-45507829689757219772010-11-09T20:53:00.000Z2010-11-09T20:53:38.686Z

Fridica wondered what I would do with my new Madelinetosh Vintage yarn.  Here it is: my Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief.  I think the Thunderstorm colourway is perfect for this! YarnMadelinetosh Vintage (worsted) Needles4.5mm PatternThe Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief I made the same kerchief as a present for a friend before: YarnColinette Jitterbug in Raspberry Needles4 mm With one

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Part II.  It's November and I still have as many works in progress projects as I did in June.  Some of them still the same ones, some of them are new. My aqua Malabrigo shawl is finished as is my heathered blue Niebling shawl.  The Alpaca shawl in dark red is also done - do I detect a pattern here that I managed to finish the three shawls out of these five projects and left the two garments

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-10527634174991076602010-11-06T14:46:00.000Z2010-11-06T14:46:30.773Z

It's not fair!  I had such good intentions to rein in my out-of-control yarn stash buying and Loop goes and gets Wollmeise!  As of today, Sat 6 November. So of course I had to go and check it out, I'd have kicked myself if I hadn't and then come across other people's reports on what I missed out on...  I think I may have become a yarn 'collector' {cough} even if that's blantantly such a very

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-27340879344245956562010-11-04T11:30:00.000Z2010-11-04T11:30:04.910Z

This pattern is for an old-fashioned shawlette that used to be worn with a Dirndl (the folk dress of women in the Tyrol or in Bavaria) - I suspect that those ends would get tucked into the generously cut neckline of the Dirndl top, whichwould explain why they extend quite so far diagonally across.  Or perhaps into a belt? I loved knitting this.  It was fun and quick. The edges make this a bit

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-44054739768725826682010-11-03T16:10:00.014Z2010-11-03T16:21:22.901Z

I am very happy: my black Brioche stitch neckwarmer is -finally- finished! I need to go back a bit to explain the 'finally' part of it.  I started knitting about 30 or so years ago, give or take.  Then about a good dozen years ago, I stopped.  I know why: I got stuck when I knit my first self-designed (literally off the top of my head) top-down garment: the Black and White "Piano Key" top

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Nest is a new London yarn shop.  They are open as of today, Sat 30 October 2010. Being located in my neck of the woods (I walked there, woohoo!) made it easy for me to go along and check out today.  And I must say: I am impressed. It is a lovely shop with really nice yarn and lots of other items.  The mother & daughter team running the shop are warm and welcoming, and the shop itself has a

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Last Thursday I popped into Loop, for one of their Knit Nights.  The shop is open until 7.30pm and the upstairs (the area with the Sofa!) becomes a cosy haven of knitting loveliness from 5.30pm onwards. I wanted to check it out to see what it's like as a general thing, more specifically I also wanted to do some more knitting out in town while sat chatting to others and thirdly: I had discovered

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Saw the pattern, loved it. Tried to get it, couldn't (the magazine was only available in North America, tut!). Waited till October, found it on Ravelry (yay!), bought it, downloaded it, picked a yarn from my stash... ...and guess what! It's already finished. I was chomping at the bit to get into this!  But I'm still very surprised that I managed to knit this up so quickly.  I was expecting it

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-6463274260070053192010-10-05T15:33:00.000+01:002010-10-05T15:33:55.460+01:00

I am so excited! I adore Brooklyn Tweed's Juneberry Triangle - but I was unable to get this before because I couldn't get hold of the magazine it was in.  The publisher only sells it in North America and eager knitters in Europe and Australia just don't get a look in.  And the Internet is supposed to make it easy to sell your products internationally!  That shows a lot of marketing nous.  Great.

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This is a project from last year.  It took me a rather long time to tidy up the raw inside edge where I picked up stitches for the ruffle. At the time I didn't realise that the inside near the neck would show when you wear it.  It folds out, so of course it would! I put a herringbone stitch over the join and now it's finished! The only thing left to do was take a picture. Nice to have this

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I am busy knitting up a fitted summer top in Araucania Lonco Multy - a lovely variegated cotton yarn.  It is very pleasant to knit with and I love all the colours in this: pink, lilac, darker purple and grey.  I was really looking forward to wearing this top. This is just one of the projects I'm trying to get somewhere with but I've run into a problem now that I should have done something

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Last Monday evening I popped into The London Bead Company, in Kentish Town (London, UK), because I had an appointment in that neck of the woods. I have known of this shop for years, but this week was the first time that I went in. It was a frustrating experience.  They have a good product range: lots of different seed beads, plenty of crystals and more expensive bead items, crafts supplies like

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Well, that's what I call it - the tabs remind me of a Rolodex roll.  I am sure there must be other bracelets like this out there, but I thought of the design myself - it is not inspired by one I had seen.  Sometimes ideas like this just pop into your head.  It took me a while to start, but once I did it went surprisingly quickly. I love the result! I haven't been blogging for a little while.

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I started this one a little while ago (at a time I hadn't even thought of my white Niebling shawl as an idea yet) - but I found the casting-off in crochet chains a really tedious task, so this one got stuck at 95% for a good long while too! Pattern:   Beyer Band 408 and 760 - Model 20 p12 Yarn:       Jamieson & Smith 2 ply lace weight                   (the colourway is being discontinued)

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I really can't help myself, can I? I went along to the London Knitting Group in Gillespie Road, North London on Tuesday (please let them know before you go so they'll know re numbers) and really enjoyed the lovely two ladies' hospitality! Their business is called The Knitting Shop (http://www.knittingwoolandyarnshop.co.uk/) and they sell really gorgeous yarns via their online shop - or you

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And because the other socks were so much fun (and also because I've got rather too much sock yarn sitting at home throwing me reproachful looks) I've knit another pair! Yarn:     Colinette Jitterbug in Cherry Needles: 3.25 mm Pattern:  improvised - but it was meant to be the              Riverbed Master pattern I started out on the Riverbed (master) pattern from the Sock Innovations book by

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So I am struggling with way too many WIPs, trying to complete some to get the count down. So I got to two and a half projects completed (the third one only needs a photo taken) and what happens? Yep, you guessed it: I cast on a new project! I just couldn't resist the idea whispering inside my head of a lovely lacy shawl all in white (haven't done an all white shawl yet) in a complicated

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Now that's got to count for progress! Here they are: My Aqua Malabrigo Lace Shawlette Pattern:      Traveling WomanYarn:         Malabrigo Silky in Bobby Blue (27)Needles:    4mmI used just under 2 skeins. Bought from Loop Knitting in Islington, London. They just moved to gorgeous new premises! Alpaca Shawl in Dark Red Pattern:     Gail/NightsongsYarn:        Artesano Alpaca 4 plyNeedles:   

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My crafty state of play: 15 completed projects 5  projects in hibernation (Not even going to worry about those)22 unfinished projects (Arrgh! Mea culpa, mea culpa...) This is not good.  This is really terrible in fact. Even worse is that I actually thought there were 17 WIPs on my Ravelry page but I missed counting a row of five, whoops-a-daisy.  (Counting properly has a lot going for it).

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Hibernating: Balmoral Thistle doily There are quite a few blog posts out there about WIPs, stash-busting and suffering from Startitis.  I thought I'd take that for inspiration and as my cue. I already blogged about one of my manic periods when I started way too many new projects but not so much about the state of affairs going on. At last counting (as of Monday this week) there are 17

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I saw a lovely lace pattern called Hannelore that Lacefreak blogged about. I fell in love! I wanted, no: 'needed', to get this pattern and knit it just as soon as possible. NB: there are also lovely pictures at Ars Una, Species Mille's blog. I looked online, then at ebay, set up a search reminder for 'Burda Spezial E418', googled it again - but no joy. Then I found this project on Ravelry and

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My Portland Gussets in blue - I am very happy with these! Yarn: Uschi Sockengarn* Needles: 2.0 mm (15 cm short DPNs, very useful!) Pattern: Yarnissima/Three Irish Girls Inpiration: Ignorant Bliss who makes the most gorgeous things! I was knitting both at the same time, with two sets of DPNs which went swimmingly until I realised that I'd forgotten the five gusset decreases on the other edge

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Have you seen my page on London Crafts Shops? I just updated it after going to Klein's in Noel Street last week. They have an amazing amount of trims, braids, ribbons and anything else that comes by the meter. Even in leather and rubber! I wouldn't be surprised if there are any glow-in-the-dark ones (I'm only kidding)... Quite an old-fashioned shop that must have been in its location for a

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I am so excited, I started to design my own pattern shawl! I did some stash-busting - with yarn I had lying around for 20+ years, because I like the colour so much (royal blue), and couldn't bear chucking it.  I finished the shawl and now I know why I could never before bring myself to knit with this 100% Dralon yarn showing an obscure brand name: Lady Joy. Sounds dodgy, doesn't it! It's not

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I really shouldn't be blogging about this top just yet, being nowhere near finished - but I am so excited! There is still so much to be done before it's presentable, but I thought I'd write about my progress so far. I kept walking past a Debbie Bliss Prima yarn in this gorgeous bright green colour, with a hint of blue! Just my cup of tea. Still, I've got way too much yarn at home, so of course

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Do you knit the English way, wrapping the thread around the needle with your right hand, and would like to try out Continental Knitting? The way of knitting where the thread runs through your left hand and the working needle picks it up. Continental knitting is said to be faster. Here's a short how-to: 1. Pick up your knitting (a practice piece with at least a few rows, to avoid having to knit

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I had so much fun posting during Knit & Crochet Blog week last week that I decided to do the wild card topic as well, even though I couldn't think of a knitting tool to recommend when I first thought about it! My favourite knitting tool is a circular needle. Heck, even two at the same time! I like knitting garments in the round, because you can motor on through endless stockinette stitch

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I really like Colinette Jitterbug. It is a sock yarn weight that I have used for a kerchief style shawlette in a candlelight pattern and will be using for socks too. This is Jitterbug in Rio, a very nice bright fuchsia. The colour is almost solid, the pink is slightly lighter and more vibrant in places and a little darker in others: very nice and subtle! There are also some very small bits of

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This is the first post of the Knit & Crochet Blog Week that I had not prepared in advance, because I couldn't decide what to write about.  There is no one single FO that immediately sprang to mind.  Checking my Ravelry page I find that there are a few completed projects: it isn't so much which one to pick but more a case of what to write. I tend to go into way too much detail in my blog posts.

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I used to knit only at home, at friends' places and back in those days, my teenage years, when we were meeting up weekly for 'youth group' (don't know if there is a better translation).  My friends were instrumental in my starting to knit (peer pressure! Everything at 15 is cool as long as your friends are into it) - so sitting in their midst while crafting away was really, really cool. Made me

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Should I make this blog post about steeking? It does seem to offer itself very neatly but I did blog quite a bit about the rose coloured Elizabeth Zimmermann cardigan I made (using the pattern for The Green Sweater). I think I should write about something else. This is not too much 'something else' because I will also be steeking the front opening (ahem, forgot about the armhole steeking,

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This blog entry carries straight on from my post yesterday. The One Great Knitter who inspires me is Elizabeth Zimmermann (there is lots of stuff on the Internet, I like this article remembering her). I have her Knitter's Almanac and I enjoy the mix of very different projects. Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac I have made the 'Hurry Up/Last Minute' sweater, the December project.

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I love the story behind The Green Sweater by Elizabeth Zimmermann. Jared Flood took photos of the original cardigan that are amazing.  The story about how this garment was rediscovered is lovely and it really made me look very closely at all available photographs. I love this pattern because the cardigan unites so many different techniques: a turned hem leaving a ridgeline at the hem (and

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It's the start of the Knitting and Crochet Blog Week and here is my first blog entry of the week - on the subject of Starting Out. Now that's an interesting topic. Unfortunately it is also one that I can't answer. Woe me! I nearly gave up on the idea of taking part in this blog event when I encountered only murky depths in my memory: what happened when I started to knit/crochet, how and why did

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Knit and crochet blogger Eskimimi had a great idea for an event. Join in and blog about a specific subject (see the list below) each day in the week of Mon 26 April - Sunday 2 May 2010.  There is a wildcard topic if you would like to pick that one day. It sounds really good fun and I decided to take part. If you'd like to know more then hop on over to the FAQs - you can also click through to

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There must be something in the water - if not then it must be because it is finally spring! I am in a positive fever of 'new, new, new!' In the last three weeks I cast on so many new projects that I it makes me dizzy.  I know that I love to start a new project but have absolutely no discipline in finishing it.  It is a problem but then my Ravelry projects page and this blog help enormously! 

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Carrying on from my earlier blog entry about steeking the Elizabeth Zimmermann cardigan, here are a couple of photos of the steeks I didn't show before. This is the steek of the right sleeve (on the right as worn).  I had sewn along the centre of the six steek stitches with my sewing machine, i.e. on top of steek stitch number three and stitch number four.  I am not sure how easy this is to see

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I am terribly excited: I started an Elizabeth Zimmermann cardigan using steeking for the sleeves, front parting and the neckline.  These are my first steeks! This picture shows the cardigan with the neck steek sewn down and cut and also the left sleeve steek (from the perspective of the person wearing it). I hadn't sewn the other two steeks yet but I had picked up the sleeve stitches and knitted

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This is another top (I do seem to make them in batches oddly enough), and it is quite funny that I am blogging about this just after my quickest project, the electric purple mohair shawlette.  This one took the longest. It is a 4 ply cotton top-down tee type top with raglan lines from the corners of the neckline down to the underarm grafting lines. I had started this top something like ten,

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I can't quite believe this but I knitted a shawlette in a day. This is the very quickest project I managed to do. I even finished sewing in the ends on the same day and now I am wearing it the following day. Very satisfying! The yarn is off ebay, I really like the colour (the purple is a little more 'electric' blue looking in real life, very striking). I hadn't knitted anything in mohair in a

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I seriously need to diminish my yarn stash by quite a bit. It gets to the point where I don't know any more what I've got. That makes for lovely re-discoveries but it's terrible on the wallet. Having started a third shawl in the last four months, I felt that it would be nice to do a very simple, plain knitted top with short sleeves. This yarn is called Lido by German company Buttinette. It is

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I enjoyed finishing and wearing the pink shawlette so much, I thought I'd like another one in blue. Found some suitable yarn in my stash, retrieved this free Ravelry pattern that I've had my eye on for a while, and off I went! I had ordered some yarn off ebay that was advertised as just 'navy wool', no band, no other information - and I am very pleased to find that it is lovely! Incredibly thin,

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The first time I checked out Loop Knitting, the yarn shop in Cross Street, Islington, London – I marvelled at the lovely yarns but also found them a touch expensive.  Then I spied some completely gorgeous wool hanging in long hanks over what looked like a broomstick above the stairs down into the stockroom.  This turned out to be a 100% merino wool called Colinette Jitterbug. Colinette being the

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This was really fun to knit.  I made a lot of neckwarmers (in the round) in this pattern, called Candleflame - developed by a lady called Julia Allen.  I include the Ravelry link to the cowl.  Julia asks that the pattern is not used commercially.  It is free to download from Ravelry, and use for your own personal use. Here is a pic and a detail shot:   I used Jaeger Matchmaker merino wool, it

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I have just found a blog post about the most genius way of knitting garter stitch in the round without purling or wrapping a stitch when turning the work for another knit row when going the other way. Here is the link: http://fleeglesblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/modestly-named-fleegle-corner-trick.html This is utterly brilliant and Fleegle is an out and out genius for coming up with this! Like

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That's 'notebook' as in the one with the white pages, to write on, with a real pen! I really enjoyed quilting the letters to spell out what it's for. The 'i' in the centre middle is not very clear, I should have given it its own background fabric but couldn't fit that in widthwise. The photo is not brilliant, but better than nothing. This is also the item of the title graphic. I ought to have

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This is the scarf I made for a friend for her birthday. Such a nice thing to be able to, - a) make something yourself that's gift-giving worthy, and b) uses up a little of your stash and you get to indulge in knitting too! Fabulous combination of things!  I have a feeling that I might be revving up to a much improved gift-giver this year... (Just a suspicion...) The pattern is called Victorian

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This is not finished yet, and therefore my first blog on a work in progress, or WIP. I was going to only blog about completed projects but could not resist it - I am really happy with the pattern (from a German knitting magazine called 'Verena', the Winter 2009 edition, model 10), the wave pattern is lovely! I am managing to get a fairly smooth fabric too, I must be putting the right amount of

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One of my craft likes is bead weaving. This bracelet is actually black 'in real life', but I couldn't take a photo that showed enough details without flash - so this photo makes it look rather silver, which unfortunately it is not. Black beads are nice too, and the colour is suited to the fringe effect of the bead strings: This is a woven bracelet out of six seed beads across - then the second

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This is the first top I made using just the stitch pattern: Hexagonal Fern from Barbara G. Walker's book: "Charted Knitting Designs", otherwise also known as her Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns. I must look up what the exact title is! Growing up in a country where most knitting instructions come with a handy chart, those charts have a cosy and familiar feel to them. I like knitting charts

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-82818734466165210692010-01-25T10:30:00.003Z2010-03-14T16:43:46.915Z

This is my first bigger quilting project: an open container to chuck all those pesky clothes hangers into that you do need but don’t know what to do with when not used. It annoyed me no end to have them about the place: they always get tangled up and make the place look untidy. So something big enough to keep them in, and best of all: keep them out of sight!, that would be a very nice item to

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-17087335708594198962010-01-21T11:12:00.005Z2010-01-30T01:05:27.891Z

This was supposed to be the bell shaped skirt (free pattern published on Knitty.com) but the bottom flare seems to have dropped out due to the heaviness of the yarn. The hemline is still quite flared, much more than I would like. The skirt does look a bit like it's skitting about! The yarn is the silver grey colourway in Gedifra Samina. I like this yarn because it looks lovely and glossy but

Gisellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109646912314640079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248015974425752686.post-7455272350226784082010-01-17T22:50:00.005Z2010-03-14T16:45:12.317Z

This is the very first block I ever quilted. The pattern is called Paths and Stiles. This is still a block because I haven't actually done anything with it yet (that would be way too 'over achieving' now, wouldn't it...). I made two, one for each side of a pot holder. A binding strip and a bit of wadding would do wonders for finishing this...I'm not all that bad on ideas and inspiration, but the

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Finally! I finally managed to get myself to The Quilting Bee shop in Enfield. Glorious quilting fabrics! They have a really nice range of fabrics, quite a few well-known brands but best of all: there is at least one fabric in each and every colour you could possibly want. Fantastic! I'll definitely be back, very soon. Drudging through rain and nasty weather, having gotten lost on on my way to

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