On the blog "How about orange" I learnt that you can get different views with Blogger: Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot, or Timeslide
Here's a Flipcard view of my blog: (Click on the photo to get the up-to-date version).
Or see a Timeslide view here. Those are my two favourites. On "How about orange" you can get a lot of other nice tips - check it out!
Btw - thanks a lot for all your comments on my redesign cardigan - and for all other comments, I do appreciate them.
Modifications: Two skiers are substituted with the initials of the recipient.
A sweater made more than twenty years ago - now with several stains.
I machine stitched and cut.
Zig-zag around the edges.
Picked up stitches for ribbing, around 2 sts every 3 rounds. K2, p2. Short rows for shaping around the neck. Four buttons holes.
Embroidery over the stains - and a bit more.
Fun with colours and stitches!
Stains gone!
Fake leather buttons.
Belt.
Et voilà! A new cardigan!
A fun project!
If you need embroidery and knitting inspiration, check out this blog.
I finally have an FO to show you! My new cardigan:
I made a red cabled sweater more than twenty years ago. After some years it got some stains on the sleeves, and on the upper front, so it has stayed in my closet for many years now. So I figured it was time to do something about it, and I cut away some of the stains, and covered others with embroidery.
And I'm very happy with the result. I just read a book, The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver. The colours of this cardigan makes me think of Frida Kahlo (read the book if you haven't and you'll see what I mean!)
(More details about the making of the cardigan in a later post.)
I have too many projects going on at the moment, most of them quite far from finishing. So I wanted a small and quick project:
The pattern is "Ribband" by Laura Nelkin. It suggests to use som kind of dental floss device to thread on the beads. I have never seen that, so I used a thin needle and sewing thread, which worked just perfect, as you can see.
The yarn is a multicoloured sock yarn from my stash. My bag of beads contained almost 400 beads, a little less than called for in the pattern.
Here's the finished necklace (I did not have a clasp, so I just joined it by sewing).
And here around my arm.
I've already bought more beads... maybe another Ribband, or maybe the next pattern from Laura Nelkin's collection "Adorn".
17th of May is celebrated every year in Norway, and if you have a "bunad", you wear it today. There are many beautiful bunads, and here are some of the ones I saw in town today.
Park Güell
La Sagrada Familia
Food..
More Gaudí...
Park Güell
FCBarcelona!!!
