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: knitting
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.
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.
Hard to believe but the sock is finished after all. I’m not too happy with the toe area because it’s a bit knobbly at the edge. I didn’t slowly tighten up the toes, but directly decreased them by 4 stitches every round, because otherwise the sock would have been too long. But when I wear them, it’s not really noticeable. It’s very comfortable and doesn’t constrict at all. I think a second sock will be worth it. 😀
I’m running out of yarn for the blanket, so I knitted the sock some more. Another 2 centimetres and I can knit the lace. At least now I’m a bit more motivated to finish it. The biggest “problem” is always to knit the second sock 🙂
Unfortunately I didn’t have that much time today, but the heel is almost done. Have decided on a short shaft.
I have knitted something again after a long time. I had problems with my wrist, so I preferred to take a longer break.
After three attempts at a “Ladies Hat” from “The Penguin Knitting Book” – I unravelled everything again and am now knitting more challenging socks.
The top is a pattern that simulates plaits. The shaft is based on a pattern from “japanese Stichbible”.
By the way, the problem with the “Ladys Hat” was that the hat was much too small and I wondered if people simply had much smaller heads in the past? Apart from the fact that the instructions are so short and cryptic that I wonder how anyone could ever understand it. I thought I’d got the hang of it and understood it all, killer logic and all, but no. It just didn’t work the way it was supposed to.
