Dienstag, 16. April 2013

Sock-Spring-KAL "Solco" Part 3


And it goes on...
2 rows coloured yarn and 2 rows single-coloured yarn in turn, altogether 20 rows

with the following pattern:

3 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
3 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
3 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
5 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
2 rows stocking stitches.

Freitag, 12. April 2013

Sock-Spring-KAL part 2: Solco-Socks


Today the pattern continues:

One row knit stitches with the single-coloured yarn, 

then 2 rows self-patterned wool and 2 rows single coloured wool in turn, 
altogether 20 rows with the following pattern:


9 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
3 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
3 rows stocking stitches, 1 row purl stitches,
2 rows stocking stitches 


Due to the changing wool in everey 2nd row, you don't have to chop the thread which you don't need at the moment. You can put it up on the inside and cross it in every round with the thread you knit with.


Have fun!

Dienstag, 9. April 2013

The enmeshed Tuesdaysquestion


Today Wollschaf wants to know:

Recently I've started a new pullover. For its yarn I looked everywhere! Barely I'd started, I couldn't find the pattern again. When I lended the appropriate book and made a copy, I discovered a mistake and had to undo a big part. And that was just the beginning of a series of mishaps until I stopped the pullover enervated.
Now my question: does it happen to you, too, that you can't finish a project by no means?
 

Lot of thanks to "Praagelmam" for today's question!



Of course I have such projects. Or another problem: I don't have any more yarn due to wrong calculating.

Sometimes I have the problem to knit the second sock. The first is finished really fast, but the second...
 
Just once I abandoned a jacket for my husband. I exactly followed the pattern with the stated needle size, knitted with the original yarn. It was a birthday present. But unfortunately it got far too big. My darling could have wraped it two times. That was the last time, I started knitting without doing a gauge.

I undid the complete jacket (of course I had already sewed up) and I knitted a gauge. But no matter how hard I tried, I never got the stated size, even though when I took a different needle size. 

Since then this wool rests, still wounded in balls, on the attic. My husband got a different jacket. Another model, another wool.

Sock-Spring-KAL


 There is a new KAL!



You need: 


- 1 single-coloured ball 
- 1 self-patterned ball with a corresponding colour.


Cast on the nessecary stitch count with the multi-coloured wool. I first took a circular knitting needle. You have to knit 6 rows in garter stitches:




Now chop the multi-coloured yarn and take the single-coloured ball. Knit 4 stitches in rib pattern (knit one purl one or knit two purl two). As from now we do circular knitting. 

Then turn your knitting work on th left needle full around (backwards) and knit in rib pattern again.




Once more knit 4 stitches in rib pattern, turn full around the knitting work on the left needle (backwards), knit 4 stitches, and so on until the end.

Then knit 10 rows in rib pattern:



Donnerstag, 4. April 2013

Traditional jacket is growing


The jacket is growing. Finally the back part is finished: 



At the moment I'm knitting the left front. Now I'm getting faster because I've internalised the pattern. 
I've washed and cocked it, but be careful: that doesn't mean to get it as big as possible. This time I recognized again that one should define the measurements exactly. Wet knitting work stretches endless... And I'd like to knit a jacket for my daughter, not a monster ;-)

Dienstag, 2. April 2013

The enmeshed Tuesdaysquestion

Wollschaf wants to know:

The last woollen hat is knitted, the first gloves are already lost. And now? Which projects do you want to start for the warm season?
Thank you to "Tee & Kekse" for todays question! 


First I'd like to end some unfinished knitting work.

- Anna's traditional jacket, I'll show you some progress soon
- Buttercup is waiting for its finishing:





And there will be a new sock-spring-KAL, of which more later. 

And afterwards? I'm not sure about it. But that's okay, otherwise I'd have still more unfinished works.