Wow this “everything I knitted/made/crocheted in 2022” trend …. I should make a video with everything I haven’t knitted or crocheted in the last 4 years. So not finished… so. That would probably be a very long video and I’ll spare you.
Instead, this year will be accompanied by a project that I will write about regularly here on a sub-page. The first post will be published on Saturday morning.
Hello you 2-3 readers out there, don’t be too excited but you can see knitting pattern instructions (from 1835) from then on that you may or may not be able to knit, but you can watch them 😀
Category: handicrafts (Page 1 of 3)
Of course, there is still a small project update.
Besides “Christmas presents that are homemade even though you don’t really celebrate Christmas and don’t need anything anyway…”, there is also an update. I’m refreshing what I’ve learned in the past, thanks to Youtubers at this point, and I’m teaching myself new techniques.
Today I am implementing “Entrelac”. I still have some wool scraps that are normally used to crochet fabric baskets. Now I’m going to make something like “coasters” out of them.
You can see a “in progress” photo below this text.
For all those who are interested, here is a wikipedia link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrelac
But it’s all about knitting. I decided to crochet. That is, “Tunisian crochet” with Entrelac “techinique” or something <3
We were in Udine – that’s in Italy, up in the shaft of the boot. If anyone is interested, here is a wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udine. Anyway, there was this wool shop and these nice ladies working there and this charming “hand-foot-gesture-crumb-Italian-communication” was just so good that I had to go straight out and get wool for a project I had picked out on ravelry the night before. On the day of departure, I had to get some wool for a baby blanket, I don’t know which baby it should be for, but maybe it will come up with someone else.
And again a Loopi, but this time a traditional one. That means I got the instructions from an Icelandic site and it is knitted from the bottom up and not from the top down like the one I posted yesterday. This one should be manageable because it’s supposed to be for a six year old. I want to hand it over in not quite a month, so maybe I can do it.
When I was in Denmark with a person I really like, of course I had to take a project home with me. Since I always wanted to go to Iceland – but Denmark is not Iceland, but at least Scandinavian – I got this loopi pattern in a very very very nice wool shop. And now I only have to knit right stitches and I’m in a knitting crisis.
I thought here “I’ll start with the sleeves, because that’s always so annoying when the jumper or top is already finished”. Hmmm yes.
This is the bottom of a rectangular crochet basket. I think at some point it was trendy to have crocheted baskets. I find it very exhausting and have only finished one so far. But these are the weeks of unfinished things, so here is an unfinished crochet basket that didn’t do my wrist much good.
This is supposed to be an “effect scarf”, based on a pattern from a very expensive newspaper. Since it is so expensive, I only have one, and only because I wanted to knit the scarf. I didn’t buy enough wool and buying the same lot was an odyssey of several weeks. Here, too, it is important to know where you are in the pattern. Otherwise you won’t see the diamond effect, but it’s hard to see in the photo anyway.
I think this should be a cap…
I tried the ballish app here, but unfortunately it’s no longer available and I don’t have the instructions for it. So I’ll have to think about whether I’ll ever finish it.
Hello,
I own – in my opinion – quite a lot of wool.
I think it can often happen that things are started because enthusiasm strikes. And then there are moments when “only knitting right” becomes so tiring that complicated patterns seem much more exciting. The problem is, with complicated patterns, the most important thing is probably to be well organised and super focused. There’s no such thing as “I knit while watching TV”.
And then sometimes I forget which row I was in, of course only I see the mistakes directly. You don’t talk about mistakes when you’re knitting, but when a row “dances out of line” -haha-. OK, all joking aside.
Herewith I present you a selection of projects I haven’t finished yet.
