Filed under: Knitting
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).
“This is our knitting club… for a while now, there has been a disagrement about some of the patterns, but I am sure that will all be resolved before you move in Miss Petersen…”
A fun cartoon, by the danish cartoonists Wulfmorgenthaler 
Enjoy!
Scottie Cardi for Laura
Pattern: “Scottie Cardie” By Erika Knight from Simple Knits for Little Cherubs
Yarn: BC Garn Lucca Fino (Nr. ub43-100gr.)
Needles: US 4 / 3.5 mm
Size: 2,5 years old – I hope she can still fit into it
Notes: The knitting part was very straight forward, even though it would have been nice with a more accurate pattern, like telling me how many rows to knit instead of how many cm. The sewing part was the hardest part for me, it would have been great if the full fashioning had been written into the pattern.
Ooh yeah, and choosing yarn that needs to be hand washed, for a garment for a 2 year-old – not my wisest decision
This is a picture of my beautiful cousin and her daughter Laura. The Cardigan ended up a bit to short for my liking, but the sleeves were nice and long. I doubt that Laura will be wearing it a lot. But perhaps her kid brother/sister will (My cousin is expecting a baby in 5 moth or so). And if not, that is okay to. I learned a lot from the process and is very happy that I finished it.
Here is a close-up of the cardie so you can really see the lovely yarn – super soft and a nice thick brown color!
Halfway through the process. I very much enjoyed knitting from a cone, but I have no idea how much yarn I used.
Cute buttons. Uni-sex, if Laura should get a kid brother then he would be able to also use the cardie. The band was for sewing inside the Cardie to strengthen it were it is sewn together. In the end I only used it on the shoulder and neck seams.
Last but not least, a closeup of my weapon of choise for this project.
These have been done for quite some time. But due to a lot problems with my computer, I haven’t been able to post them 
Pattern: Vespergyle mittens by Elinor Brown
Opinion: Great pattern, very easy to memorise and very nice result! I might do it again sometime
Modifications : I went up a couple of needle sizes and chose thicker yarn than the pattern asked. I also added length about 5 rounds more.
They now belong to my Rasmus. And even though they very extremely fun and easy to knit! The best thing about them, is hearing him brag to everybody he knows, about them! He still wears them.. and it’s 20 degrees celcius outside!
Here are a couple of pictures from the process. Please note that the colours are more accurate on the top ones.
For more info, comment on this post or tjek out my Ravelry.
Honey Comb Socks – my way!
Pattern: HoneyComb Socks by Nina Duke-Howard
Yarn: grey sock yarn, 70% wool, 30% ?
Needles: 4,5 mm
Modifications: Everything. I did them top down with a diamond heel.
These guys have actually been on their way for more than a year, embarrassingly! I promised Esben a pair of socks the fall of 2007, and this is the final result. The good news is that he really likes them.
Not very photogenic socks unfortunately.
Esben was kind enough to model them for me, whering his cowboy hat
These were actually finished in due time. Yet here they are a little over a month late They are just odinairy socks made from Opal Sock Yarn with a Parrot collor theme And the have been keeping me feet warn all through this last feezing month.
Oh yeah, bye the way, sorry for disapearing for a month.. I have finaly got a little more control over my life and finances again. I am taking a class at the IT-university, working in a daycare center and a theater.
I simply Cant count, so in casting on for these socks I used markers. 
I know it is silly, but I still managed to fuck it up the first time round. Second time round I used markers and had Rasmus re-count it the stitches for me (pour guy).
The cuff and the top of the foot has some light cabling. It is very easy to memorise and gives a nice effect.
I Used double yarn to make the socks extra thick and nice.
And here is the final result. They have been done for quite sometime, but I was waiting for a sunny day to get at good picture of them – but there seriously hasn’t been any days with sun for the whole of December!
The pattern, New Years day sock by Dipsy-doodle, is very nice at easy to memorise, but the yarn is not good match for the pattern I most admit.
I hope Tina, our dorm cook, likes them!
Filed under: Books, Favourites, Knitting, Stuff, WIP | Tags: a song of ice and fire, audio book, Harry potter
I just finished Harry Potter!
I started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this spring. I really loved the series when I was growing up, but I somehow got stuck on this last and final book. Perhaps I childishly thought that I could prevent the story from ending (especially with the ending I though inevitable) if I just didn’t finish it so soon. And also I was a little tired of the books being so similar – and slightly too actioned-packed (I could have spend lots of time just exploring the universe and the magic).
So how did I finally get through it? A good friend of mine gave me the audio-book version. It turns out that knitting (or any other sort of craftiness) and audio books are a perfect combination! It is almost like returning to childhood, when my mum used to read to me (actually she still read to me when I was passed 14, but never mind that).
In the end I really liked the series and the story turned out completely satisfying (and I am such a critical person).
But now I need a new “fix” for my story-listening-cravings to go together with my Christmas Knitmares (I am actually very productive these days)!
My drug of choice is another great fantasy novel that I somehow got stuck reading (admittedly, I am not much of a reader). George R. R. Martin’s “A game of thrones” is the first of 7 planned novels in the series “A song of ice and fire”.
So my fellow crafters and bloggers, what are you reading or listening to? Anything you can recommend?
Right now I can’t wait for the holidays so I can spend lots of time listening og knitting! Those will be the days!
Another thing I am really looking forward to: Christmas eve! I can’t wait to see my family open their presents! I am really excited about each and everyone! When the time is rigth I will show you what I am talking about! Okay – I’ll just give you a small preview of my makings this year! It’s a garment, it’s super soft, it’s a nice brown color and I’m enjoying every stitch of it!
When I really need to get away from it all (working 2 jobs, dorm-related work, etc.) I light candless, put on Billy Holiday on my stereo, make a pot of tea and…
curl up in my little knitting corner. When you don’t have a lot of space, it is nice to make little areas for different purposes.
I can sit here for hours wrapped in my blanket knitting away. My door is open so that people can drop by, and that just adds to the cosyness of it all.
Here I am working on a pair of “New years day” socks for Tina, our dorm cook who also received the slippers I made. The Socks were done by the end of Socktober, and I’ll make a post about them when there is a nice sunny day to take nice pictures of them.
Filed under: Knitting, UFO, Uncategorized | Tags: frogged, kal, Knitting, mysterysock, ravelry, socks
So Kisten Kapur auther of Through-the-loops came up with the great idea of a Socktober mystery sock KAL. I had never done a KAL before, so I thought it was time. Last year I promised my friend Esben a pair of socks. And when I told him about the mystery sock patter (he couldn’t stop laughing ), he was up for the challenge.
So I cast on using some bamboo sock yarn I had saved for Esben. Clue no 1 went without any trouble – see pic above. But halfway through Clue no2 I was having serious doubts. The yarn was too fine for the needles I had chosen, and them being made of aluminium certainly didn’t help. Secondly the pattern was just to feminine for my friend. Perhaps it would have worked in a different yarn, but I just wasn’t happy with the result. What you see above is now frogged.
This is what they should have looked like (pictures borrowed from Ravelry). I have seen the pattern done in more “masculine” colors, where it seems to work just fine. But I just wasn’t feeling it.
Here is an example of the more komplex version, with cables. Also very pretty – and time consuming.
So all in all, a fun challenge – but not for me, right now at least
