FO Fridays - Storm Cloud Shawlette

This is the first shawl(-ette) I've tried knitting, but it definitely won't be the last. I loved it, and it just flew off the needles.

Here you go Nina. Hope you like it :)


Pre-blocking - wingspan 90cm.


All blocked out - wingspan 112 cm.


Post-blocking - wingspan 100cm.



I love the elongated garter stitch, and am considering trying to make a top in it - I think it would look great over a tank top.

Pattern: Storm Cloud Shawlette.
Yarn: Bumbo Acrylgarn - 100% acrylic.
New technique learned: Stretchy cast off.

WIP Wednesday - Summer top

Not much longer to go now! I finished the back yesterday and had such a feeling of accomplishment when I finally bound off the first 60 stitches :)


Took a photo of the back as well, to more clearly show how much I have left to knit. If I'm as dilligent this week as I was last week, I should be able to finish it!!!

I'm so happy with the way it's turning out, and just HOPE it won't end up being too large. I know I can try it on, but I also know that if I do and it doesn't fit, I'll have lost all motivation to finish. So I'll just keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best.

No photos of the storm cloud shawlette - I finished that over the weekend, so you'll get to see that on Friday :-)

WIP Wednesday - 2 for the price of 1

Another Wednesday, another WIP post.

My Get Fresh Summer Top is coming along swimmingly. I'm completely falling in love with the pattern and the yarn. It's fast and it's fun - knitting in the round is definitely a good thing.

However, I have now come to the part where I knit the front and the back separately, and I can definitely feel it's slowing me down. I don't purl neither as fast nor as evenly as I knit, so the tension isn't quite as even for the last few rows as it has been so far. Ah well, hopefully it won't be too noticable once I finish. Another couple of weeks on this one, and I should be there! :-)

Then Saturday I started the Storm Cloud Shawlette for my sister, Nina. In the hopes of getting her to sew me a case for my needles, I suggested to her that we exchanged crafts. Fortunately she thought that was a brilliant idea, so I'm knitting this shawlette for her in return for the needle case :)

It's a very fast knit - pretty much flying off the needles. I'd guess I'm about half way done - a bit less if Nina would prefer it larger than the original pattern. I'm using an acrylic yarn for this, in the hopes that it won't be too scratchy against her neck.

For more WIP posts, check out Tami's Amis.

WIP Wednesday - Summer top

I have a feeling I'll be posting photos of this top on Wednesdays for a while yet ;-)

It's coming along nicely though.


Only one more repetition of this pattern to go and then I need to start thinking sleeves.


I really love the pattern! It's fun to knit, and I think it looks great. Can't wait to see how it'll look on me. I just hope it'll fit... it looks a tad big, but I guess I won't know till it's done.

Check Tami's Amis for other WIP Wednesdays.

WIP Wednesday - Summer Top

Lars and I spent most of the weekend catching up on TV-shows, so I've had time for a lot of knitting :) With no further ado, my WIP Wednesday photos:

I don't know what it is with my camera and colours! It's much greener IRL.

A close-up of the details.
I had to switch from my bamboo needles to simple plastic ones. I generally prefer to knit with bamboo needles, but they simply weren't pointy enough to handle the k2tog with any kind of ease. This is MUCH better.

I'm loving the way it's turning out :) Well... not too impressed with the way it keeps curling up, but I'm hoping blocking will help with that once I've finished.

FO Friday - Baby Vest

I finished knitting the baby vest last weekend. Such a quick and fun knit! I definitely might make this again :) Last night I sat down to finish it off - I hate sewing buttons, so I'm very proud of myself for not procrastinating on that :)

I did block it before sewing, but must say I can't really see any difference... here it is, before and after blocking:


I found the buttons when I went yarn shopping Tuesday, and just knew I had to have them! Aren't they adorable! Here's a close-up - taken at an angle as somehow that also made the colour come out better. It has looked almost grey in the other photos, but it really is more green'ish.


I've updated the pattern with gauge, size and amount of yarn used. Would you mind taking a look and seeing if it makes sense now?

Now to wait for niebling#6 to make his or her appearance :)

WIP Wednesday - Dachshund and Summer top

I finished the baby vest over the weekend :D Now I just need to stitch the sides together and add buttons and it'll be all done! So hopefully I'll be able to post a photo of it on Friday.

Saturday I'd bought the newest issue of "Simple Knitting" and found a summer top in there I really wanted to try. It seemed easy and looked cute, so a perfect challange. Unfortunately I didn't find it until after 2pm on Saturday, so the yarn shop was closed and wouldn't open again until Tuesday (Whit Monday is a holiday here), so I had to find something else to start on in the meanwhile. Thankfully I had an ooooooold kit I'd bought ages ago (thanks to 's recommendation) which included both pattern and yarn, so after probably 5-7 years I finally pulled that out and got started :)


Yesterday I made it to the yarn shop after work, and got the necessary yarn for the summer top. Boy, was it ever hard to choose! I find it even harder to chose colours for things I knit than when shopping for clothes, because I can't try it on first and see if the colour works on me... ah well, like the cashier said, if I like the pattern, I can always come back and make it in more colours ;)

I'm not entirely sure about the yarn either... the pattern called for Baby Alpaca which they didn't have in the correct weight/length ratio, so I found something else instead where both the weight/length and the gauge fit, but I don't know how much that actually matters? If the gauge is right, does it matter that the weight/length ratio is different? *is confused*.

Ah well, at least I'm learning :) I got started last night (after knitting no less than THREE swatches as my tension apparently is way off), but as the photo proves, haven't gotten very far at all.

Since the top is knitted in the round, I had to cast on 240 stitches to begin with! THAT took forever, although fortunately I thought to place markers for every 40 so I didn't have to double-check my counting all the time (past experience does count for something finally ;) ). I managed to get rather paranoid about connecting correctly though, as they kept going on about not twisting stitches and how the only way to solve it if you had was to start all over again :-/ I think I ended up double-checking 5 or 6 times, before I trusted I'd gotten it right. You'd know after having knitted two rounds, right?

I know it's not much to look at yet, but I can't wait to see it grow :) I might need a larger circular needle though, but I've never seen them larger than 80cm in shops here. Ah well, there's always online.

Both of these WIPs are rather large projects though, so unless I decide to cast something on in the meantime, it'll probably be awhile before I'll have something to show for a FO post again ;)