Miss Janets Knittings

...look who's Blog of the day at The Keyboard Biologist Knits. Thanks to my hit counter, I know I've never had so many hits in one day - or several months :-) That inspires an update.

I have made a little progress on the black thing. Considering I said I'd done half a back and a front piece it doesn't look like much, but I started by frogging the front piece. I knew I had messed it up and couldn't remember where. Luckily it has turned out to be easier than remembered to knit and on 15 mm needles progress it quite rapid.

A reason that knitting in practise is slow, is that I've been caught reading about it. I came across this book on a blog somewhere out there a few weeks ago, and couldn't resist getting it. Its quite nice, funny to read about someone knitting, but had it not been my hobby I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.

... I know, but who can knit black when it pretends to be summer outside. The sun & birds wake me up in the morning, and I've left the house several times without the extra pair of (self-knitted) socks. And especially not when you've got two skeins of fantastically intense pink Colinette Mohair, which has been calling you for months. So finally I made a decision on what to use it for, and here it is. A very simple pattern, since there's plenty of activity in the yarn itself.

Again: thank you Nanna. She was my very nice and secret nordic friend in the first round who gave me the first skein.

I took the picture at night with the flash, but I still think the colours look reasonably close to the real ones. Still haven't done much reading on digital photography...

And now, I really will try to get that black thing out of my way and into may wardrobe.

I bought myself a booklet last week on digital photography, and after todays attempts at taking pictures of my latest production, I have been encouraged to start reading in it too! I can't control the pictures I take of black items, but with the close to small-fortune I've paid for the camera you'd think it should be possible somehow.

Anyway, my April-socks are done, in black! Not the best colour to show the cable-pattern, this shot sort of shows the pattern, but in real life they are black. The pink shine is not a digital invention, but the socks were lying on a pink blanket when photographed, I really need to start learning some more about this camera :-)

I'm on a mission to complete old projects, on therefore came across this box:

which contains one front and ½ back of a jacket from drops. I'm not keen on the knitting, never really learned to appreciate 15 mm needles, the yarn is impossible to frog, and the stitches so hard to see due to the black. But I sure would like to wear it, and it shouldn't take long to finish.

If I get enough of black, I simply bring out my new beginners nuno-felting-kit, bought at a handicraft-show last week in Roskilde, from Kartehuset, much more appropriate colour range for spring.

Hot of the needles - pink striped socks. The second sock was knit twice, the first time I knit with fewer stitches than on sock-one despite actually having written the number down, but apparently I wrote the wrong number !!
Unfortuanately the tension is rather different betwen the two, perhaps I've become more relaxed between the two? :-) I don't know what the heel-type is called, but it's one where you knit 2 needles of contrast yarn where you want it placed and continue to the toe. The stitches are picked up along the contrast yarn and a heel is knit like the toe. This looks nice and easy, but I find that I spend about as much time removing the string as I do knitting the heel, so I'm gonna do a different one for a while.

What will be next, the April socks