Amimono Oak and EZ Tomten finished; first free day used

Some day (I forgot which) this week I finished the Amimono Oak:

I wore it today for my boyfriend's nieces baptism, but I didn't manage to take any photos of me wearing it. Yet.

The design is made by talented Danish knitting designer Helga Isager; her company is called Amimono, the Japanese word for knitting. As I have waxed poetic about earlier, she makes fabulous and fashionable designs. Looking forward to seeing her spring collection. The yarn for this garment (a long vest, it must be) is her own, (or mostly, her mothers?) and you must buy a kit including the yarn to get the pattern. They are fairly expensive, but I must say the yarn and the pattern is quite word the money.

I followed the smallest size (small/medium) of the pattern, but I knit on needle size 5.0mm and not 5.5mm as suggested by the pattern although I normally have to use larger needles since I'm knitting tightly. I did however make this modification to get a denser and more rigid fabric; it turned out like I wanted it to! This, of course, made me use more yarn than I might have, but since the kit comes with enough yarn for the largest size, I had enough: the kit includes 700 g of yarn; I used 696 g!

I'm looking forward to flashing this fashionable knit in the time to come; I'll try to post some photos later.


As soon as I finished this 2nd project of the year I went and spent the first free day earned in this year's Stashalong (my rules are here):

A very modest purchase, I must say: 100g of New Zealand lambswool and 50 g of Arwetta sock yarn. The latter for an upcoming project; the first is not quite the colour I wanted it to be, so I guess I'll order something else for the project I have in mind when I earn my next free day.

I did also finish another project this week: The EZ Tomten jacket (link for Ravelry) for the above mentioned niece being baptized today. I sew in the buttons in the car on our way there, hence, I only managed to take some photos of it with my mobile phone. Alas, it turns out that none of us have Bluetooth on our computers! What a shame! I've never got so many compliments on my knits as I got today from the baptism participants :) The child's father even called it cool ;)


All I can show you is this progress photo, where you can see the raspberry main colour. I also used some coral yarn to underline the sleeve construction - and some pink alpaca when I ran out of the original yarn... :) 194 g stash reduction; and an immensely cute baby jacket which I assume the child can grow in.




Stashalong status:
Used: 934 g; 3 projects = 1 free day earned.
Bought: 150 g; 1 free day used.

A nice progress so far; and 2 projects crossed from the list, as the EZ Tomten will replace the EZ February Sweater on the list.