I just published my new cowl pattern, Ringdans ("round dance").
I have revised my Scrap gnomy pattern. It was one of the first patterns I wrote, and I have now made the lay out look more like my newer patterns, and I believe it's easier to follow now, the charts are neater and so on.
Three patterns colourful patterns where you can use your fingering and sportweight scrap yarn:Lollipop legwarmers
Worked in a sport weight yarn, these legwarmes knit up fairly quickly. The legwarmers feature jogless stripes, colorful lollipops, cables, ending with a currogated ribbing.Octopetala
A colorful, scarf, worked almost exclusively from the right side, using the ends as fringes. Thus avoiding purling in stranded pattern, and avoiding weaving in the ends. With no steeking either!Scrap gnomy
All over stranded colourwork hat for toddlers, children or adults, with tassel and earflaps.All patterns are available in English.
The legwarmer and the hat patterns are also available in Norwegian, and the hat pattern even in German.
A new post in the "Knitting in colour"-series inspired by Judith.
Now turqouise. The colour that we traditionally call turquoise in Norway ("turkis"), is, in my head anyway, a little colder than the colour of the stone. I do like the colour, although I prefer the darker and warmer versions.
When I looked after turquoise projects, I realised I should have called the post "Crochet in colour" - all the projects I found were crocheted. Maybe it is a crochet colour?
Anyway, here is what I found:
Top left: Queen Anne's Lace Scarf (ravelink) by Khebhin Gibbons, details here.
Top right: My pattern, not written down.
Bottom left: My pattern, autumn hat, free pattern (see left sidebar)
Bottom right: At The Back of My Mind Choker by Marnie MacLean
Leaving rainy and cold November weather for a week in Gran Canaria was a good idea! It's amazing how quickly you get used to 25 degrees celcius. (But I'm still happy I live in a place with four seasons, where I get to wear my woolly knitting.)
Puerto Mogán
In the sun I finished my green Noro Scroll Lace shawl (from Ysolda's Whimsical knits 2). The picot edging did not turn out nicely, so I omitted it, and did a plain cast off. (Choosing to blame the ugly picots on the yarn, and not the Spanish red wine..)
I used to consider myself an experienced knitter. But the more I read and see on Ravelry and on knitting blogs, I understand I'm just average. There are so many different techniques that I have never even heard of, and I discover new things all the time. Which is why I love Ravelry and the rest of the knitting world on the internet. It's so fun to see all the new possibilities!
I bought two skeins of Noro sock yarn in Gothenburg this summer. One of them is now turned into a pair of fingerless mitts for myself, and a cute little scarf for a friend.
Ysolda's garter stitch mitts were not my first project with provisional cast on and short row shaping, but it would be a perfect first project for these techniques, and kitchener stitch, of course.
The pattern gave a nice link for a provisional cast on tutorial. I can now do the kitchener stitch without watching a tutorial, but I have used this one.
Modifications: Needles: 3,5 mm. Had to repeat the last rows twice (or was it once?) more than indicated in the pattern - otherwise followed instructions for smaller size.
The Queen Anne's Lace Scarf by Khebhin Gibbons did not offer any new crochet techniques, but it's a very nice little project, and a clever pattern, that is easy to remember. I think it works very nice with a colour changing yarn like Noro.
To my Norwegian readers: What is the Norwegian expression for provisional cast on - and short rows? Foreløpig opplegg? Korte rader? Or what?
The other day I saw the new Harry Potter movie, wearing my Luna Luneskjær Scarf - Luna Lovegood in English. The Norwigian translator of the Harry Potter books, Torstein Bugge Høverstad, has translated also many of the names in the books. The names often have allusions and connotations in English, that otherwise would be lost in the Norwegian text. I have read somewhere that he could do this, because he was one of the first to translate the books, later the names were copyrighted. Some doesn't like this, especially those who first read the books in English. I do like his tranlations, although I had some difficulties when reading the last book in English (couldn't wait for the Norwegian translation to see what happened to Harry.) There are several online dictionaries, this, for example, so you can easily find a translation if you wonder.
But back to the scarf - this is a fiber crafting blog, after all. I loved the pattern, it's easy to remember, and the result is lovely. I used a cotton/viscose blend, Brilla, from Filatura di Crosa, and hook 3 mm, which I think was perfect for the pattern. I used 2 skeins, and had to omit the picot edging because I ran out of yarn. But it's nice, anyway. The pattern is by pinkleo, and you can find it here.
Pattern: Blowsey RufflesbyJanine Le Cras
Yarn:Mirasol Yarn Sulka
When I first saw the pattern, I thought there was cabling involved, but it's not. It's just a very simple, but clever lace pattern, quickly learned, and a well written pattern. And the yarn is incredibly soft, merino, alpaca and silk.
I used kitchener stitch to join the ruffles at the end. I have done that many times, and it's logical, really, how you should do it, but I always have troubles starting. Now I was ok, after I found this nice tutorial on the PurlBee.
Pattern: Selbu Modern from