Abfabulies

The big yarn stash

How do you keep track of all the yarn that you have lying around the house? Do you have an amazingly spacy craft room where you have labeled cabinets where it is all arranged according to colour? Do you have them all neatly stored away in big boxes? Or do you have yarn lying all over the house, like I...

Second Sock Syndrome

If you are a sock knitter, you’re probably familiar with SSS, Second Sock Syndrome. You have finished one sock, you are happy with it, but you don’t feel like starting the second one. Which is logical, since you already know you can do it, and you don’t want to do the exact same thing over again, right? I just finished...

Scrappy earrings

How is your general feeling towards earrings? Love them, hate them, never got round to getting your ears pierced? I simply love them. I must have that from my mom. Just like her, I never leave the house without them. If I did forget to put them on, it’s a sign that something is clouding my mind. I guess you...

Mr McThingey

Maybe you remember the drawing my husband sketched a while ago. Maybe you won’t, since it’s been months. Lying somewhere on the bottom of a bag, was Mr McThingey, armless, legless and even faceless. But I’ve patched him up, and he’s ready for life now. In the end, I decided to embroider the eyes and mouth on. Lazy as I...

Cracking dpns

When knitting, what kind of needles do you prefer? Is it wood, bamboo, metal, plastic? I’ve recently taken a liking to bamboo ones. They feel warm and cosy and they don’t make any ticking noises while knitting. Earlier this week, I started knitting a new pair of socks on bamboo dpns. Of course, these are very small, and look more...

Hop-on-hop-off mittens

Any fellow bikeriding knitters out there? I ride my bike almost every single day. Living in the city, it’s the easiest and fastest way to get around. This also means that I have to use my bike lock every single day. In winter, this results in putting on and taking back off my gloves or mittens quite often. And taking them...

Project runway

I have been working on a cherry blouse in class. Not a personal pattern for this one, but a Burda pattern. It is a bit different than your average blouse, since it does not have a collar. The shoulders and sleeves are also slightly different, and it was a bit of a puzzle now and then. But I made it!...

How to join in the round

When knitting in the round, the hardest part is to join both ends when knitting the first row. Once you get that done, you can just keep going. There are different ways to join in the round, and all these ways can be applied to both dpns and circular needles. This is the way I do it: Cast on the...

Soul mates

Some weekends ago, we had my hubby’s big 30 retro party. Theme: Soul. That was because disco would have been too easy 😉 My husband asked me to make him a pair of flared retro trousers. Since I had made him trousers before, I just took the old pattern that I already had and flared it. Of course, I wanted to...

Close, but no cigar

I don’t know how you guys decide on when to do which project, but I’ve discovered that I definitely do not follow the seasons. While I’m working on one thing, I’m already thinking about another thing. And most of the time, these are related to the technique I want to practice. And so I end up knitting gloves during spring....