Miss Janets Knittings

Saturday at noon: brought home yarn and put in cassette no. 1

Sunday evening: finished sewing & cassette no. 12 ran out (the last)

Details - Knit:
Yarn: 140 g. Bom-mix (50 % cotton – 50 % acrylic) from Hjertegarn.

Colours: green (7700) and dark blue (6850). Night-time-with-flash-photo does not show colours well.

Needles: 4 mm

Pattern: from Kate Buller: 'Style Your Own Kids' Knits: Simply Choose a Pattern and Select a Motif '

Size: 6-12 month

 

 

 

Details- Book:
Noah Gordon: "The last Jew" ("Lægen fra Zaragoza" in Danish)

 

A friend recently had a baby and I had sort of decided not to knit but rather sew something, as I am a bit fed up knitting for others... But then, as I was strolling around a local handicraft-fair ('Husflidsmesse'), I spotted this pattern and immediately knew I had to make this for the little man. Off I went with the pattern and what I assumed to be a teal-blue skein of yarn, but turned out to be green under natural light conditions!

I first came across the pattern in a yarn shop about a year ago and immediately liked its simple and neat design. My joy has only increased as it knit my way through it (and at 3 mm needles I did use some time...). It is simple and clever, the whole thing is made without a single purl stitch and ZERO seams.

 

Pattern: 'Bette'from Design Club.dk

Yarn:Duo (colour 520M) from Design Club.dk

15 mm needles + black mohair + my non-existing patience = very bad combination.

It has taken me literally years to get this thing finished, not in actual knitting time, but in swearing, throwing into corners in anger and lengthy periods of ignoring. Its finally done, and I actually quite like wearing it. Only one major problem: it leaves a trail of black hairs every where it goes, to the extend that I've come to accepting that meals consumed while wearing the thing include bits of fluffy black!!

 

 

Pattern: no-name jacket from Garnstudio

Yarn: Black Vienna from Garnstudio

Needles: 15 mm

 

 

 

 

The very last christmas item (!) is done and handed over. A red mohair scarf, with beads added for the first 20 cm of the ends, by adding them to the stitches using a VERY SMALL crochet needle.

 

 

 

 

Pattern: 2 knit - 2 purl

Yarn: Laines Fonty Kidopale; colour: 290

Needles: 6 or 8 mm (don't remember!)

 

 

Yarn: Opal, mocca (1262)

The fit is sort of ok, though a bit large for my size 38 (but can't really blame pattern for that!), they just look funny I think.

Have (again) sworn this is my last after-thought heel, it's simply too much hassle to pick up the stitches for the heel. Maybe I'll start knitting baby socks, to have something to practise a short-row heel on...

has been added to the photo-album. A christmas present given away a while ago (though not quite the intended 3½ months!).

We've all seen it before: 250 grams worth of garter stitch Kauni-shawl, but I think the Mother likes it :-)

I have actually knitted something (a Xmas gift!) and even managed to take a photo before wrapping it up for handover

Details:

Pattern: 'My So Called Scarf'

Yarn: Eskimo; Colour 18 (160 g) from Garnstudio

30 stitches on 12 mm needles

Measurements: 22 * 102 cm

I love looking at the pattern close-up :-)

Hey, Emma has also just made one :-)

For lack of urge to show of the ca 43 half-done things I'm fiddling with, and to establish whether I actually remember the password for this blog: another personality-revelation

You Are the Swedish Chef

"Bork! Bork! Bork!" Your happy and energetic - with borderline manic tendencies. No one really gets you. And frankly, you don't even get you. But, you sure can whip up a great chocolate mousse

got inspired here

 

 

After the final exam ever, I am finally present IRL again and able to allocate focus towards other important stuff, such as knitting :-)
Rather than finishing my rather extensive delayed-Christmas-knitting, I decided it was time for another hat for myself* – particularly urgent given the mad cold hitting DK these days.

The pattern is the 'Army Girl Earflap' by Lisa Shroyer. Pictures are shown in the IK winter 2005 issue, but actual pattern is only found on the website. It is knitted in a garter rib pattern (R1: k1, p1; R2: all k, working in the round). The crown is knitted in the round with regular decreases as the top i approached.
For these decreases the pattern reads: k2tog, k1, ssk.
I can't get this approach to fit with maintaining the k1-p1 pattern and I therefore decided to knit three stitches together. This gives the same net-reduction in number of stitches, but means pattern can be maintained.
My problem is that whatever I've done it looks quite messy (hard to see in photo), as the decreases are very visible – and this annoys me.

Unfortunately, despite my newly earned scientific doctoral degree, I have not been too scientific about the decrease process. I have tried several different ways, but am now not entirely sure how the different ones look!
Therefore, before I frog half a hat and retest various methods more scientifically, my question is whether any readers know an established way?
Part of the problem is probably related to the choice of yarn though, this splits quite easily and quickly adds to the messy appearance! I've used merino wool from Stof2000 (can't find yarn on the website)

It just occurs to me, that maybe the solution would lie in doing the decreases on the pure knit rows??

 

*I have knitted a great number of hats for myself, but always with limited success, either they're too small (big head!), rather unflattering or if they do turn out fine, I loose them!