Marta's knitblog

I received this yesterday:


This is the first time I buy this magazine and I think it is worth the price. I have found some patterns I would like to knit, but most of all I like this one:

This pattern is called Audrey and I know there is somewhere a "Audrey knit-a-long". I have to find it - and I am thinking about knitting it too...
Anyway I do not intend to buy more yarn. My stash is so big, I am sure I will find something I can use for it. Rowan Calmer is too expensive, a 50gr skein costs about 10€!

Poncho:
I made a trip to Koblenz last weekend, so I had no time to knit. But I have a small poncho progress to show you:
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Have a look at this:



This is something I would like to support - you know how much I love animals.
I have added the button to my sidebar and I am planning to crochet a blanket.

I will not be here during the weekend - see you on Monday! |

1000gr cotton mix in a wonderful mint/pistachio shade I got from this ebay-shop.

What can I knit with it? Maybe you have some suggestions.... (well, I don't know why I ask, since I'm convinced that nobody reads this blog)... |

I have knitted about 10 cm of the poncho:


Camilla seems to like it:

Didone shows indifference:



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After having knitting about 25 cm of the chickami, I noticed that the skeins were from different dyelots :-). The difference in the colour was just slight - but strong enough that I am sure I would not wear it. Maybe you can see it in the picture:

So I decided to rip it out. Since I do not have enough light blue cotton to knit it, I will pick the apricot one - or maybe the yellow one from my stash. I am still unsure about it.

But now I am a little frustrated and sick of knitting with 3,5 mm needles - so I will start to knit a poncho.
I have found some instructions in German for knitting it from the top down in one piece. They sound easy.
I will use this multicolour (---> pink, beige and blue with lurex) yarn mix I got at ebay last month:

So I look forward to casting on this evening!
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I took part to the Kyoto knitalong.
Here is the result - I am so proud!



I used cotton from my stash. It was Schachenmayr Chérie, yarn that I got at ebay last year. I knitted the smallest size, but I realized that the sleeves were thought to be 3/4 long, so I had to add almost 20cm! And I hate knitting sleeves....
Well, now the masterpiece is completed and I already wore it once last week.
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So, we absolutely need a knitting update now, so that you people out there do not think I have been lazy.
Here is what I knitted in the past three months:

1) two more booga bags, one in the basic pattern and with Noro Kureyon, another one with Lopi wool
2) Kyoto, which I am VERY proud of.

I am now working on a chickami.

I hope I will be able to take and publish pictures during this weekend! |

I stopped posting here since I was not sure if I would like to keep writing or not. It is somewhat time-consuming. But since I find the time to read other people's knitblogs every day, I guess I will be able to find a couple of minutes to write my own.
I have been also kept thinking about in which langueage I should post. Of course English would be the best choice, since it is an international spoken language. But, well it is not my mother tongue and it is difficult to me expressing anything I want. I used to spek English fluently, but it was a long time ago.... Anyway, I will try writing in English. Hope you guys will forgive my mistakes and the poorness of my vocabulary. But if I write in German, my sister could not read this. And if I write in Italian, no one I know would read this. So, let's try.... |