A nice stash project

I just thought I'd show you my favourite gloves, although I finished them one or two years ago and have been using them ever since (hence the reparation on the thumb), because they are an obvious stashproject (especially for you who have a lot of sock yarn leftovers, but do not want any more stripy socks):

I did this: collected all my stash of the sock-yarn-type, split it up in two halves so that there were equal amounts of each colour for each glove - this makes them a pair although they are actually very different (just like the Camper Twins shoes, you know ;)). I also made sure that the beginning and the tips had the same (purple-brown) colour - also to make these gloves a pair.

These are my favourite gloves, and now I have shared the idea with you, so that you can make yourself a pair too. :)

They are a happy knit - the random stripes make all the fingers a little less tedious to make! :)

Nice site

http://www.kimhargreaves.co.uk/

Nice knits :)

Damn!

After having finished Pentagon 6 of the Bubble Pullover from Knitting Nature it turns out, that I will have to knit size large (due to my smaller gauge) in order to make the pullover large enough (well, it's large enough, but I'd like it to be a bit baggy like it is in the book...

So - I'll have to frog it and start over again :( Annoying, yes, but I've learned from my knitting experience, that it's better to frog and make something that I'll actually use instead of finishing something, that I know inside is a little bit wrong - that'll only lead to me not using it.

Lesson learned.

Currently on the needles

I decided to spend some of this lovely Sunday to photograph the items, which are currently on the needles. I already posted the Elvira blouse some time ago, but here are the rest of the projects.

All the projects are knitted from stash, since I am attending the Stashalong 2007.

This is the Bubble Pullover from Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan.

I make it in two blue colours from Henrichsens Uldspinderi combined with marine kidmohair. I make most of the pullover in the petrol blue, but I'm doing 2 of the pentagons and maybe the beginning of one sleeve in cobalt blue. I've decided to swap the ssk's and the k2tog's to make the decreases a design feature, like one of the other bloggers on the Knitting Nature KAL did.

I just started the Color on Color scarf from scarf style.

I'm knitting it from 33 different kinds of stash - my mother provided me two of the colours, the rest are my own. In the book it is made from approx. 50 different colours of Paternayan Persian wool - I found the colour charts with a little help from my friend Google, and mathced the colour numbers in the book with my own stash - it's project to knit from stash. It's hard to tell how it will turn out yet, but it looks so lovely in the book, that I wanted to give it a try.

Here is the cherry belt

I made up the design with inspiration from Sonia Rykiel (oh, I'm fond of her (very expensive) clothes). It has been an UFO for some time now - I hope I'll find the power to finish it some time.

Here is the narrow, stripy scarf I'm doing from the lovelies wool/silk yarn, which I got for free, because it was some small leftover bundles, when I went to Henrichsens Uldspinderi to purchase some yarn last autumn.

I'm knitting it when I attend lectures at the university. Since I'm doing my bachelor (undergraduate) thesis this spring, I'm only attending lectures on Thursdays, and therefore the progress is a bit slow.

Scarf complete!

This weekend I finished the scarf with letters:

The letters on the scarf says HALSTØRKLÆDE - the Danish word for scarf. I came up with the design myself, and I'm very fond of it!! My boyfriend now wants one with his name on it.

It's knitted in a double-knitting technique, which somewhat resembles the jacquard technique, apart from the fact that this double-knitted technique gives you stockinette on both sides of the fabric.

It is made from 3 kinds of stash: Lambswool from New Zealand (3 different colour), tweed-like wool from Shetland, 50/50 mohair/wool made in Italy.

This scarf reduced my stash with 132 g, so now I'm down to 6932 g.

-- The design and pattern for this scarf is the sole property of Birgitte Zeuner (c) 2007 --

So, now I've finished 5 of the 7 items I had on the needles when I started this blog - so it was time to start up a new one: A lace pattern blouse in two strands of kidmohair: