Pattern: Audrey In Unst by Gudrun Johnston
Yarn: Pickles Extra Fine Merino
Colour: "Solsikke" - Sunflower
New skills:
Bias bind off, three needle bind off,
and sleeve cap shaping
with wraps and turns, top down
- the construction is just brilliant!
(The photos are pre-washing)
This sweater is based on a Ukranian folktale about a lost mitten, in Norwegian called "Skinnvotten", beautifully translated by Alf Prøysen.
Pattern: Paper Dolls
Needle: 2,5 mm for body, 3,0 mm for yoke (stranded pattern)
Yarn:
Red: Black Cat Fibres Sock yarn merino
Grey and green: ninukka sock yarn (etsy)
Blue: Wollmeise Sockenwolle 80/20
Modifications:
Worked top down (but because I didn't like the first ribbing I made, I unraveled the neck ribbing, picked up stitches and worked this part again from yoke and up)
Ribbing: k 1 twisted, p 1 (in stead of corrugated ribbing).
Long sleeves.
And differnt yoke pattern.
The yoke pattern is charted by me. Some of the animals are found from other patterns:
My cousin is getting married today!
The groom's pair is made of Rauma "3tr strikkegarn", on needles 3 mm. I used a little less than one and a half 50 g skein of the main colour, and one skein of the contrasting colour.
For the bride's pair I used less half a skein Rauma lamullgarn of each colour, on needles 2,5 mm. The size difference is obtained just by different gauge. The groom's pair is obviously a bit thicker.
Choose the file "Selbu Peace&Love mittens" if you want the English version.
Choose the file "Votter for kjærleik og fred" if you want the Norwegian version.
Remember the 1000 fabulous hats contest? My Scrap Gnomy , or Pointy Striped Color as it is called in the book is a runner up. The book is now available! Clicking on th photo will bring you to Amazon.
The first reviews on Amazon, were bad. People were disappointed there were only 10, and not 1000 patterns! Well, $ 16,50 is not a bad price for ten patterns, I would say. (And I never saw a book with thousand patterns.).. Other reviews have come later, and are better. I myself have not seen the book yet, I'm waiting for my copies to cross the Atlantic..
I have been able to have a look inside the book, though, on Amazon. I knew I had one patttern in it, obviuosly, and that I had at least one additional photo, so I was quite curious too see. I found three photos, this, this and this.
My pattern has been updated with another size after the book was made. This is done just by changing gauge, so there is no problem to follow the instructions in the book. Details about sizing, yarn requirements and gauge can be found below.
I love visiting my grand parents' old summer house.
My grandmother liked all sorts of fiber craft.
Lovely old flower fabrics.
There are always things to do at a summer house,so it's been a week of both work and relaxing.
And some knitting of course. More about that later.
