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In clue II you can see the next step in the aforementioned project 
I have actually knit quite a bit further, and it looks promising. The pattern is more or less homemade so I am quite excited!
Filed under: Fun stuff, Knitting, WIP | Tags: double knitting, fun, Knitting, weird knits
Here is my next knitting project. It is a bit ambiguous – what could it be?
It’s fun projet and the knitting is quick, so there should soon be new clues to update 
(No cheating on my ravelry page)
Drops Spring / Summer Collection 2011 has arrived. Even though I’m not that big a fan of Drops designs (or how end-products, knit after their patterns, turn out), I did see one or two things I did like:
A nice summer dress. This cute dress might not be very groundbreaking in it’s design. But it ‘s cute and it looks like it might be fun to knit.
A cute summer shirt. It is unisex, yet feminine, a look that makes it fresh.
The rest of the collection was rather boring and looked like every other design the feature on Drops.
Filed under: FO, Fun stuff, gift, Knitting, weird knits | Tags: double knitting, Exchequered, fun, Knitting, ravelry, Space Invaders
This blog-post is about my first double-knit project.
This summer, I was incredibly lucky to meet somebody new, my now boyfriend Tomas. For me it has always been important that the person I’m dating have an understanding of my interest for knitting and other creative things. I was therefore please that Tomas showed great interest when I offered to knit him a scarf. The picture below shows the result of efforts.
Tomas wearing his new scarf
I started by showing him a lot of scarves patterns at Ravelry.com and based on different patterns we put together a pattern of our own. Mainly based on the Exchequered pattern from Knitty spring 2006, and combined with different versions of Space Invaders.
Now some pictures from the process:
First part of the knitting process
I started by casting on (CO) 32 sts including 2 edge stitches. Gauge is 17cm X 25 rows = 10 cm / 4 inch. Using 4,5 mm double pointed knitting needles.
Second part of the knitting process
Tomas would draw up the pattern as I knit it. The Space Invaders’ pixels were made of 2*2 stitches/rows, with 5 rows between each Space Invader. The Exchequered pattern followed the original pattern quite closely, with pixels made of 3*3 stitches/rows.
The scarf ending in "Game over"
The scarf was made out of 4 parts. First the part of the Spac Invaders. Then the Exchequered pattern follow, and was mirrored. And finally the words GAME OVER were added at the bottom.
The remaining ends were weaved in and the scarf was blocked to the size of 20 cm * 170 cm.
My nerd - Tomas being cosy in his new scarf
In conclusion: This was a wonderful project. A fun and play-full color-pattern. It was challenging to try double knitting, but once I got the hang of it, I really enjoyed it and the results are great. And Tomas loved the result and was very curious about the whole process of making it
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I’m still knitting, I’m still online way to much and I still enjoy sharing my work for all to see
My newest knitting adventure is * drum-roll* double knitting. See Knittinghelp.com for an instructive demonstration of the matter.
I took me a while to figure out, because I knit Continental knit-stitches and Norwegian purl-stitches. Which meant that I had to pay a lot of attention to which color-yarn was held in front and which was held in the back – something that might be better shown trough a video than through text.
The picture above is my first try on double knitting that actually worked.
My next post will be about the finished double-knitted scarf, shown in the first picture of the post.
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This past Monday the scene was set for the first of many knitting to get-togethers at my dorm GAHK. It was a great success! 7-10 girls stopped by during the evening, and participated in the knitting.
The scene, with the, candles, lovly brownies and lots of lots of knitting tools.
I was fortunate enough, that these wonderfull avid knitters dropped by – Thea and Rikke of Powerkitty (who brought wonderful Brownies)
Amalie here was a freshman-knitter, but was a quick learner 
She is up for learning how to knit socks at our next knitting-evening. Very Cool!
Uuh and I started a new projekt – Knotty! And it is going great, I’ll post more about it, when I get further in the process (it seems to be a quick-knit).
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Yay! it finally arrived! The new book by my favourite knit-blogger Jared Flood of b r o o k l y n t w e e d. I was super thrilled to find out that he had published a book, with his own original patterns and his own pictures! But at first I had trouble finding a place that would sell it to me in Denmark.
Made in Brooklyn - by Jared Flood
The book “Made in Brooklyn” just arrived the other day, after only 2 weeks of waiting. Classic Elite Yarns do not ship out books to Europe as far as I could see, but luckily the book was also available on E-bay. I want to start knitting almost every pattern in the book All of the pictures in the book are as beautiful as you would expect from Jared Flood. When I manage to reproduce something from the book I’ll post pictures. Until then visit Jared Floods knitblog b r o o k l y n t w e e d – and enjoy the pictures from the book there.
I had a fun knitting get-together at my dorm this wee Had about 10 girls knitting af laughing over the and brownies, One of them being Rikke aka Powerkitty. Once I find my camera again, I’ll post pictures from the event. I really enjoyed that there were so many girls, who wanted to join us, and knit along. The plan is to meet up every other week. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to, UNI is quite demanding these days!
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I’ve been working on these babies since March 
But I’m not big on summer knitting. You can find the “pattern” here.
This monday the GAHK knittingclub will begin once again, and so will my knitting - I can’t wait!
