Yarn Along :: WIP Wednesday

Yarn Along :: WIP Wednesday

Can't believe it's Wednesday again. Seems like the days is just flying away :) The two youngest have a day free from school, but we are spending the day inside despite a wonderful sunny day due to -20 C... I am so fed up with this low temperature :( So we are watching dvd's, playing with lego, doing some laundry, feeding the stove with wood and knit.

Reading: After listening to 6 out of 14 cd of The Return, I gave up. It was just to much politics to keep me interested... So I began listening to The Secret Life of Bees and I love it. A wonderful story!

I'm also enjoying Deeper the 2nd book in the Tunnels series. I only have a few chapter left and I'm glad I have the 3rd book waiting in the shelf ;) The last book is Whisper of Scandal by Nicola Cornick. One need to have one guilty pleasure book in the pile, right?

Knitting: Well, the socks haven't grown much since last week... I have knitted half the heel on the owl socks, but I'm worried about them being to small even for Eirin's feet. But I'll knit them without owls on the foot, so hopefully they will stretch a bit in the leg. The black is a hat I am test knitting :) And the pink/blue is another cowl, but this time for Eirin.

And I just have to share this Sh*t Knitters Say :)

Twisted rib neckwarmer

Finally some nice weather to take photos in. Although it was mild with just -3C the wind made my fingers feels like icicles the few minutes I was out...

Pattern: Twisted Rib Neckwarmer

Yarn: 86g Candy Skein Yummy Fingering Superwash Sock, Colorway Blackberry

Needles: 4,5 mm

I first used this yarn when I knitted the Dragonfly Wings shawl last year. But I didn't like the shawl, so I desided to frog it. And I'm glad I did, because I love this cowl :) It's so soft and comfy and I love the colours. If you haven't checked out Candy Skein's yarn yet, you should.

Brrrr, it's cold outside!

We've had some cold days lately with temperatures down to -20 C. The snow squeaks under your shoes, the skies has some wonderful colours blue, purple and pink and the ice on the lake is making cool sounds :)
And we've gotten our own frost forest in the window in the hall up to our loft.

The kids don't care about the cold though. Right now Erlend and Eirin are out sledding :)
(Bad picture I now, but taking good pictures in the dark is something I yet have to learn...)

Anyway, I'm just glad we had some snow before this cold came. So hopefully it will stay to prevent the water from freezing this winter. I'm so not going through a winter without water again!
And as some of you know, I'm not very fond of pictures of myself. But I've knitted a cowl and it must be shared ;) It's made of a soft and chunky yarn in a great colour. I actually had enough yarn for two, so someone might get it as a gift :)

 

Pattern: None I just casted on around 50 st and knitted until it was long enough ;)

Yarn: 200 g of some yarn I got in a swap years ago. I think it's chinese.

Needles: 8 mm.

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week :: Day Seven

There’s one love that we all share: yarn. Blog about a particular yarn you have used in the past or own in your stash, or perhaps one that you covet from afar. If it is a yarn you have used you could show the project that you used it for, perhaps writing a mini ‘review’. Perhaps, instead, you pine for the feel of the almost mythical qiviut? You could explore and research the raw material and manufacturing process if you were feeling investigative.

I love sock yarn in every way, but there is some other yarns I like too ;)
Like Sisik, which sadly is discontinued. This yarn is so soft and the colors is so rich. It's a Worsted / 10 ply Rayon, Acrylic, Mohair, Wool mix. I only had two skeins in red, two in green and one purple. The red ones became a pair of fingerless mitts.

The green bacame a neckwarmer.

And the purple a headband. I really wish I had enough red or green to knit me a sweater in this yarn, but I guess it would be hard to find now...