Photo album from Edinburgh - page 2 - people

My super knitting and travelling friend with her new Penguin bag from Anna Maltz aka Sweaterspotter.

















Two Next year in Lerwick knitters from Germany/Poland. How great is that!
Sweaterspotter at her booth in the market place and Claire from NHKnits who interviewed me for her podcast.

Photo album from Edinburgh - page 1 - touristy things

Me outside St. Andrew's Castle

View from the entrance of Edinburgh Castle

Sunday walk to Stockbridge Market

Walking  home from the festival along the canal

A nice walk along the Water of Leith

Foggy afternoon in Edinburgh

No finishing in February

But I almost finished this pair of mittens, 

and now, on March 6th they're done, 

with all ends woven inn too.

 I actually gave them away in a birthday party on the 24th of February 

- so I had to finish! The pattern is my own, 

En smak av Muhu (A taste of Muhu), 

published in the Swedish online magazine Avmaskat this winter. 

After six months I can self publish it on Ravelry, 

so it will be available in Norwegian and English this autumn. 

But if you read Swedish, the Magazine is good value, 

with seven patterns alltogether. 

And I did start the second sleeve of my Blomekrans sweater, 

so now I just have to transport myself down to the cuff. 

I now I should have been able to finish this in February, 

but as often before, a secret mitten project came in the way. 

Finishing and mending in March, then? 

I will finish the sweater, 

and perhaps some more secret mittens. 

Feel free to join the finishing & mending chat in my Ravelry group!

Kukufrakak  has recently finished a lovely yellow Tuin sweater!

Finishing & mending - January

I have mended the Lillehammer mittens (above) , the stripy, felted mittens (under), and a couple of more. Not a lot of work, but something that has been waiting to be done for ages. 

For February, I hope to finish this sweater.

Good luck to me!

Do you have plans to finish or mend something in February?

Feel free to join in the 2016 finishing&mending thread in my Ravelry group. 

Mystery solved

The last clue was revealed yesterday, 

and what a wonderful delight 

to see all the finished mittens  

popping up in all their glory on Ravelry. 

Thanks to Knitnetty for this pretty pattern, 

and to the super supportive Ravelry group 

I make mittens.

for hosting the MKAL

Merrygoatround

When I was gifted this candlestick, I fell in love with the cute goats and immediately thought of using them in a hat pattern - the pattern name also came quickly.

My plan was to use different colours for each goat, but I decided to make a two-coloured version first, just to try it out. Here I used one of my favourite yarns, Pickled Pure Wool.

For the multi-coloured hat I used lots of different left over yarn. 

And a new to me technique - intarsia in the round. 

It's ok for a small project like a hat. 

I recently had the chance to try it in the cold, and it works perfectly. 

There will be a pattern in a little while. 

2016 finishing & mending - monthly resolutions

I have many ufos, and other project in need of repair. My resolution for 2016 is to try to do something about this. One project a month. Please join if you want to support me - or are in need of support yourself! I have made a thread in my Ravelry group for this. 

For January the project is mitten mending. I like to use wool mittens when I go skiing. But skiing is hard on the mittens, and they sometimes need a little darning.