water and stone

So I've knitted something again. And finished it. This time it's not my own design, but the genious Water & Stone by Veera Välimäki. So we went somewhere with both water and stones to photograph it. Too bad the evening was a bit far along and it was difficult to catch the light just right...

As per usual, you may click the photos to see a bigger version.

This is the most luxurious thing I ever knitted. The yarn is the fabulous Scrumptious High Twist DK from Fyberspates. A silk merino blend with a heavy drape. It actually feels like water on your skin wearing it.

The design is phenomenal. Knitted from the top down in one piece, with the same cable repeated in three different ways along one front edge, in one side and slightly to the left down the back. Simple but pretty and well thought out.

I might have to take some daylight photos of it some other day.

Please notice my new necklace. A find from etsy that arrived just today. Cute huh?

Well... that's it really. I'm quite proud of it, so please only say nice things in the comments! ;)

I knitted a rainbow

I present: The Rainbow.

When you need something colorful (I have FOUR grey projects going on), you can always turn to Easyknits.

Loosley based on the pattern Ripples, but I ran out of pattern in the purple section so I improvised enlarging it. Approximately when the pattern called for a red stripe... I switched colors. 
The yarn is Easyknits, Deeply Wicked Little Guys Spectrum. Ten mini skeins that together form a spectrum.

I got some leftovers from the first three mini-skeins, but I think I've used about 170 grams of the 200 I had. So. Very. Colorful.







Like always when trying to take photos... all the pets come running to join in the fun!

lolcats

Internet is a place where we gather funny photos of our pets.
Right?

another Offe

I knitted another one of my own Offe. I totally wore out the old one, and one needs a colorful short cardi in one's wardrobe! 

I used 1 (ONE!) Zauberball Stärke and 125 grams of black Visjögarn.

Unravel

Again... I go abroad and I realise how much I love my international network of old and new friends! That means I should try and keep this English blog updated too, but it has fallen behind.

In a slideshow at google, I have tried to sum up SOME impressions from the weekend past at Unravel, in Farnham Surrey. 

ROTOR

It is done. ROTOR is released.
This is a cog in my design machinery.

It started with machines. Cogs, metal, hard, mechanic. 

This hard inspiration met my love of yarn and the construction, the mechanics, the maths of knitting.
As per usual, I landed in the knit stitch. Our cog in the machinery.
Knit and purl being the same thing, but yet so different. It’s all about what side you turn outwards.

The shawl is reversible and beautiful however you wrap it around you. From the inside out. All the way out to the lace. The cogs.

ROTOR is knit from the middle and outwards. It features details like “reversible middle stitches”, I-cord tab cast on and I-cord edges. The panels of stockinette stitch alter, adding purlsides and knitsides to both sides.
If you choose to use another yarn, I would recommend solids to semisolids and variegated, but I would stay away from the self striping for this one…

I am immensly proud of this shawl. Not only of its very architectural design process and the details I've worked so hard on, but of the collaborations it has generated. Easyknits has dyed the spectacular Deeply Wicked yarn in metallic inspired colors just for ROTOR. The prototype is knit in "Copper Petina". 

The pictures were taken at Bäreberg junk yard. One of my favorite places on earth - filled with metallic scraps. 

Bjomal

This blog is embarrassing... I keep updating in Swedish, while this blog is left hopelessly behind.
However - big knitting news! A new pattern is out! I designed a cable to teach basic cabling techniques and it turned out well, so I put it on a toque.
The cable in itself would look good added to almost whatever, and I can't wait to see some modded projects with it! But here's a link to the toque pattern on Ravelry! Say hello to Bjomal!


Cable away!

Opsa

A love story about a yarn...

Sometimes you get a yarn in your hands, so lovely you 

almost don’t want to wind it up or even disturb
the pretty skein. But your hands yearn to knit it. 

So I knit, yet another stockinette, triangular shawl...
Because I wanted to feel this yarn. I wanted to see it shine. But how to finish it?

I have frequently browsed through edging patterns and shawl patterns for inspiration to finish a stockinette triangle. This time -nothing- fitted because I knew exactly what I wanted. So I ended up drawing it up myself - A leaf. Just the right size for the gauge. Then doing the math, fitting the leaves 

together and fitting the middle leaf to the middle stitch. 

And by the way: What a difference a purl makes! 

Opsa - I made  a shawl. And as a bonus, the same chart can be used to make a kick-ass stole! 

The wonderful yarn is called Splendor and can be found at Easyknits.co.uk 
Pattern availible in english or Swedish.

The Lion, the Yarn and the Franklin

Franklin Habit writes about his visit at Lion Brand Studio and now I want to go back to NYC again. How can I have missed this place?? My fav part of the blog post though is the knitted US map quilt with the legend:

"A wall map, about five feet across reminds one that there aren't Red States or Blue States, only states that like to play with yarn."

more mugs

I wrote some knitting quotes on some mugs again. Finally updated the shop. More to come!

OFFE

I made it. The pattern is Finally here. The cardigan Offe is up for sale on Ravelry!

I could have continued working on this forever. You can write it however detailed and varied you want, since it's designed to be played with. You can choose long or short, broad stripes or narrow, long or short front panels... Once you've figured out the construction it's very easy to mod and adjust to your taste. Make your version!

Click on the images to see them in bigger versions.

A few tech details used in the cardigan are well explained in many youtube clips.

I've chosen a few here:

Provisional cast on on waste yarn here.

Mattress stitch here.

I-cord bind off here.

smarge

I knitted a cowl, a hood, a shoulder snug, a shawl and a piece of knitted jewelry all in one! A simple but effective woolen hoop. I call it Smarge (Small, Medium and Large!)

I needed this garment, so I designed it. It's dead simple, but so wearable. The simple stitch pattern gives the fabric a little life, plus it lays flat and is reversible. It's a chevron pattern that is built in the contrast between knits and purls.

I can imagine this cowl might look very different in other yarns and colors, where this contrast is more pronounced. But I love my version in Manos Wool Clasicas bright red. I sell this pattern both through Ravelry (button below) and through Garnasinne, a new Swedish web shop for ecologically friendly and/ or fairtrade yarns (shop page in Swedish).

The pattern is availible in both English and Swedish.