Posts tagged knitted

Not really, a lot of people in the local knitting group are very good at anything they put their mind to.

It is so hard for me to pick one designer as my favourite, and I don’t think it would be possible for me to pick a favourite pattern. Here are my top 5 designers and my reasons for liking them.

Herbert Niebling

for his absolutely beautiful lace patterns

Jared  Flood

for his interesting colours and textures

Stephen West

for his awesome scarves

Hansi Singh

for her interesting and inventive toy patterns

Ann Hrachovec

for her interesting and inventive toy patterns

I’m a big fan of all natural fibers. I’m not a big fan of acrylic or any acrylic blends.

My all time favourite fiber is likely alpaca. All my alpaca projects are very warm and drape really nicely. Second favourite fiber is silk

As for yarn I love Berroco alpaca lace, Cascade 220, all Malabrigo varieties, Blue Sky Alpaca, some Noro (even with their flaws), Spud and Chloe, Knitpicks and Fleece Artists. I’m a bit of a yarn slut. I want to get some of the more expensive yarns to make some scarves out of.

As most of my friends probably know I love Wollmeise. I’ve never actually knit with it but I have 2 skeins of green varigate sock, 2 skeins of a red varigate sock and a skein of orient lace, and a brown lace.

The most challenging project I’ve ever made was likely Mitteldecke mit Blüten im Erbstüllgrund by Herbert Niebling. It is a lace tablecloth. I only made a couple of mistakes that are hardly noticable.

Unfortunately it is still not technically done, it still needs to be blocked

I tried to make a foray into pattern designing and ended up with a really ugly hanky. I threw it out because I couldnt work out the border.

I cannot think of any other projects at this time that I don’t like.

Most of the projects I’ve knit over the last 2-3 years I’ve been fairly proud of. Everything I knit is my ‘favourite’ for various reasons.

Émilien by Ariane Caron-Lacoste

This was the first adult size sweater I’ve ever knit. It isnt particularily technical but I’m proud of the time and effort I put into it.

thought: how lame would it be if I used (knitting) stitch markers as earrings?

My original knitting project was probably finished within a week.

My mother taught me how to knit when i was really young. The first thing I ever knit was likely a tea cozy. It was about 15 years ago.

These are all projects that I have in the background or I’ve been dragging my ass on finishing.

I have a Haruni by Emily Ross scarf I keep meaning to unravel. I like the colour of the yarn and the scarf itself is nice, I just have no motivation to finish it and I’m not very far in.