Monday, October 13, 2008

Solen (The Sun)


It's finally on display! Starting back in February, I took some huge breaks in knitting this one. Finally, I procrastinated sewing the side seams for almost a month. But now its done (still needs a washing, but I've started wearing it): Solen (English: The Sun) from Marianne Isager's book Japan published about a year ago. 

I made the following modifications: 
  • 1 "column of suns" less, i.e. I have 3 or 4 circles on each row, not 4 or 5. MI usually designs very wide sweaters for my taste; turns out I was right - this one fits me.
  • I made St st sleeves with garter stitch edgings instead of the full garter stitch ones called for in the pattern.
  • I've randomly placed two small, red circles (like the ones on the front) on the back instead of one huge one.
I like this sweater. It's not going to be quite as much a favourite as the Cabled Spiral or the IncREDibly Red one, but I think I'm going to wear it quite often - it came out better than I anticipated!

It's knitted using 1 strand of Spinni and 1 strand of the equivalent of Tvinni bought directly from Henrichsens Uldspinderi. The red/pink/orange circles are Tvinni, Tvinni Mohair, and some other yarn from Henrichsens.

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Info for Stastalong:

Stash reduction: 390 g.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Skideflot, Birgitte! Den er rigtig smuk og sidder virkelig godt på dig - må absolut blive en yndlings.
:-) Britt

Tanya said...

This looks fabulous on you! You did a beautiful job on it.

Anonymous said...

Fantastisk flot!
Den ligner et vaskeægte hit i garderoben. Helt enig, MI trøjer med væve- eller gobelinstrik plejer at være temlig store.

Karen S, Lykkefanten said...

Wow, hvor er den altså bare smuk, den trøje. Og du klæder den enormt godt! Stor applaus og dybe buk til dig!
Kh Karen S
PS: dine sokker er også ret fede!!!

Irene said...

Den er virkelig flot og klæder dig rigtig godt ! Du har ret i, at Isagers modeller ofte er ret brede, så det var smart at gøre den smallere fra start af :-) Har netop måttet trevle op....

Birgitte said...

Tusind tak, alle sammen! (Tanya - thank you!) :D

Anonymous said...

nydelig!

Hanne ... said...

Hold da op, den er bare så flot- Elsker de røde sole på den sorte baggrund.