My pattern is up for sale!

I just put a pattern for the two scarves I designed up for sale on Etsy - here's the link! 

The pattern includes instructions for both of these ingenious and graphic scarves - with plenty of possibilities for customizing and varying both scarves to match you yarn, temper, and fancy. 

The scarves are knitted using the double knitting technique. Using this technique the front and back of the knitting will look equally nice - perfect for scarves! And a great feature that you can employ in the design.

Included in the pattern is a comprehensive tutorial for double knitting supported by loads of photos where I show you how-to. Hence, even if you're not familiar with the double knitting technique, but would like to try it out, you can! 

I also listed the pattern on Ravelry, but I'm still waiting to get a connection between my profile and the pattern. And I need to add some photos to the pattern as well. The link is here. 

 

Twinkle's Best Friend Cardigan

As described here, I finished this wonderful Best Friend Cardigan in one day last Saturday. Yesterday I finally managed to have a photo taken of this little wonder. Like with my first Twinkle knit I'm absolutely thrilled with this one - and the immensely bright purple colour of the Cascade Magnum yarn (the colour is brighter than the photo gives it credit for). Like the original yarn - Twinkle's Soft Chunky - the Cascade Magnum is hard to get your hands on in Europe. I bought it on a special order at wollbox.de. Here's a link to my cardigan on Ravelry.

It's my second Twinkle knit, but definitely not my last! 

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Info for Stashalong:

Stash reduction: 544 g

New yarn from over there!

The dear boyfriend finally arrived from his business trip to Houston, TX today! I had of course made sure to order some yarn and the most wanted pattern book to his colleague and friend living over there so that Peter could bring it back home for me! 

3 skeins of Twinkle Soft Chunky (colourways Sapphire, Eggplant (a deeper colour than the photo shows), and Canary), 6 skeins of Blue Sky Alpacas Alpaca Silk colourway Guava, and 2 skeins of Plymouth Yarn Suri Merino colourway charcoal. Add to that the great Berroco pattern book Norah Gaughan vol. 1 (one of my favourite designers!) Wonderful stuff, all of it! 

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Info for Stashalong:

Stash enhancement: 992 g

How To Knit A Cardigan In One Day

1. Make sure you have got hold of Twinkle's Big City Knits and some beautiful chunky yarn before you start.
2. Sleep till 10am cos you stayed up till after 2am last night.
3. Have breakfast, surf the internet, read the newspaper.
4. Cast on for the Best Friend Cardigan.
5. Knit for 3 hours while waiting for the thunderstorm to blow over. After 3 hours you will have completed the body of the cardigan including knitting the shoulders together. Try it on and get the feeling that it'll turn out magnificently.
6. Go for a 12 km run. That'll do you good.
7. Shower, Skype your boyfriend who's soon to return from his never-ending (16 days) business trip to Houston (TX), knit the collar onto the body of the cardigan, prepare and eat you extremely healthy dinner wishing it would all of a sudden turn into a delicious pizza!
8. Cast on for the first sleeve while watching Robin Hood on TV - and finish it.
9. Cast on for the second sleeve while drooling over Sean Connery in the Saturday night James Bond movie.
10. Sew the sleeves on to the body (be brave, this is the worst step!).
11. Weave in ends.
12. Sew on the buttons.
13. Try it on (and think: niiiiiice), and move one of the buttons a little. 
14. Think: Damn, I look gorgeous in this one! 
15. Soak it in cold water and leave it drying on a towel on the bathroom floor overnight (optional).

There you go! And I tell you this one is a good one! Unfortunately, it is now way too dark for photos; I'll post some tomorrow or Monday - you have to see this one!

In other crafty news

Photo courtesy of Little Factory

I found these scarves (through Karie's blog, which I found through Ravelry). Why did I not come up with that idea?

Orange Cowl FO

FOs seem to be popping out all the time these days - I guess that's what holidays are for. This time it's a cowl - inspiration found here (link to Ravelry here)

It's knit with the two skeins of Posh Yarn Eva 4 ply colourway Embroglio that I recently bought (108 g). So incredibly nice to wear at your neck! Come autumn and black clothes, and I'll be ready for you. 

2 FOs and a prize

Having spent almost a week at my parents place, I've been very productive in finishing WIPs! I finished 2 and got much closer to finishing a third one. I will however start this post by presenting the prize that arrived in the mail while I was gone:

A couple of weeks ago Dee (of Posh Yarn) had a contest on her blog - and I won one of the prizes; wooohooo! :D It's a skein of new cobweb (1200yd/100g) alpaca yarn she's launching (it's called Marianne) - incredibly soft and nice! I'm sure it'll make a lot of Posh Yarn lovers happy! The colourway is rightfully called Leaf - it's a much denser lime/acid/leaf green that I was able to show here; gotta buy that new camera soon! 

And now for the FOs: 

I finished Otto the Polar Bear - my mom insists it's a girl and she's called Isa (as polar bear is isbjørn in Danish), so I'll hereby present to you: Isa:

Knitted in 52 g of Jo Sharp's Silkroad DK Tweed (colourway Magnolia) - a leftover from a previous project - on 4mm needles; she turned out rather large, I guess around 40 cm tall. 

My second FO is the pocket-y scarf - my own design, and a project I've been working on for some time now. I'd like to make a pattern for it; let's see if I get round to that...!  It's stripy on one side with the coloured stripes peeping out through the holes on the other side. 118 of various stash yarn (400-600m/100g). 

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Info for Stashalong:

Enhancement (prize): 100g

Reduction: 52g+118g = 170g

I bought yarn!

For quite some time now, I've known that I would buy 100 g of New Zealand Lammeuld in these two colours. I've had them before, but I've only got some scraps left now, and I want to use them for Marianne Isager's Sommer i Tokyo along with some pink and orange Tvinni/Henrichsen from my stash. Going to visit my parents this week gave me the opportunity to go to a local farm where they sell Filcolana yarn at low prices. I also bought a skein of Arwetta (the extra fine merino, not the sock yarn) - good for baby clothes in case any of my friends or relatives should get some :)

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Info for Stashalong:

Stash enhancement: 250 g

FO: Amimono Coral

There you go. Mulberry silk from garn.dk. Uuuhhhmmm. 1 cone, i.e. 100 g used for this one. The stripes on the top are made with a bit of blue linen. It fits perfectly and is nice to wear! 

Pattern: Amimono Coral - available in on of the spring issues of Boligliv (you can find it on Ravelry). 

116 g for Stashalong (as the plastic cone is included).  

Birgitte's 365 Photos blog - now up and running

Here! Enjoy! I will ;)

I've put a link to it on the very top of my sidebar if you want to use that.

365 photos

In pursuit of something to do in my endless summer holidays I was happy to find a link to the Project 365 at Frk Snupps blog. Take one photo each day in one year - preferable one that captures that particular day. Sounds like such a good idea that I'm going to play along! It'll also teach me to look for photo opportunities - something I'm not particularly good at. I'll set up a new blog for it - I'll let you know the link when it's up and running. 

Don't expect Yann Arthus Bertrand style photos from me - if I'm going to make it easy for myself (and I am!) I'll mostly use my phone for shooting photos, and as it has 2 megapixels only and no flash, not all photos will be that great as you may well imagine. 

If you want to join, please do!