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EZ Joy

Hanne — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:58:20 +0000

Happiness is when you go to Payless Books and find a like-new copy of the 1971 edition of Knitting without Tears that costs only RM 10.45 (approx. USD 3.16/ DKR 15.75).

Anglaise Pattern Edit

Hanne — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:36:44 +0000

I think I have discovered, and now (hopefully) corrected an error in the instructions for the Anglaise shawl. The mistakes were in the edging without zig-zag ladder. Hopefully I got it right this time, but as noted, the pattern is “use at your own risk”.

ETA: if you saw the first edit of this post, let me point you to this post.

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Shawl It To Me Baby

Hanne — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:57:57 +0000

Here, finally, are some pictures of the shawls I mentioned in an earlier post:

Yarn: New Zealand Lammeuld by Filcolana 600mt/100gr
Needles: 3.75 mm
To like or not: this is actually quite a nice yarn - when it comes in whole skeins rather than bits and pieces - and I enjoy knitting with it. The intended recipient of the brown shawl didn’t want it.

Yarn: Retro by Gepard Garn (discontinued), merino,150mt/50gr
Needles: 4.50
To like or not: yarn was wonderfully smooth, soft and squishy. Nice drape.

I am in the process of reknittting some of my earlier designs - I think I knit the first of these in 2003.

Yarn: Shetlandsuld by BC Garn, 450/100gr
Needles: 4.00
Blocked Size: appr. 214 cm across the top, 100 cm down the middle
To like or not: yarn is sold unwashed, but softens up beautifully when washed.

The prototype for this was knit in 2002 in the same yarn, but in another colour. That shawl was a gift to Erna, the woman behind kunststrik.dk. Erna died in 2004.

Yarn: New Zealand Crossbred Wool 12/2, 600mt/100gr
Needles: 3.50 mm
To like or not: if you like it, you can find the pattern here

And to end the parade, another Anglaise. I wanted to see how it looked in a less floaty yarn than the Kid Seta. This one will be moving in with my mother.

Yarn: Loðband Einband by Ístex, 225mt/50gr
Needles: 4.00 mm
To like or not: like the Shetlandsuld this yarn is sold unwashed. While it softens somewhat with washing, I suspect many people will still find it scratchy. I like it a lot though, and will be looking for more next time I’m in DK. The pattern for Anglaise will up on Yarn Over by the end of the week.

Click on the images for more pictures.

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I’m So Excited

Hanne — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:15:00 +0000

… and I just can’t hide it! Something unexpected happened that allowed me to order this. Now to decide on the yarn!

Der skete noget uventet, som gjorde at jeg har kunnet bestille dette. Jeg føler mig en lille smule utilpas ved at bruge så mange penge på en strikkeopskrift, men der er jo til mange timers underholdning. Nu til at finde ud af hvad garn jeg skal bruge!

At Long Last!

Hanne — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:19:31 +0000

November 4 2007 was the day I first emailed Filcolana about my yarn trouble.
January 25 2008 was the day I emailed Filcolana about the other problem with the yarn.
March 4 2008 was the day I received 2 skeins of replacement yarn.

Better late than never I guess

Haapsalu Rätik

Hanne — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:55:48 +0000

It’s not much, but here are some glimpses of the real thing:

Läänemaa Portaal
Läänemaa Museum

On both those sites be sure to click on the pictures for larger versions.

ETV24. You’ll need to click on the bottom of the 4 teal coloured links on the right - the one that says: “VIDEO:Tallinnas näeb Haapsalu sallide näitust”.

Meanwhile we patiently (not!) wait for Interweave to publish Nancy Bush’s book on Estonian lace knitting.

Time For Change - II

Hanne — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:29:48 +0000

Thanks to those of you who commented on my earlier post, I appreciate the feedback. Since Knitabulous misunderstood what I was trying to say, I thought I’d better clarify that I have no intention of taking Yarn Over down. The patterns will remain for as long as I can afford the hosting. When I spoke of irrelevance I was thinking of the web guide section of Yarn Over.

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Hanne — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:30:55 +0000

Swallowtail shawl. Found via Lilly Smuul.

Marie, Marie and Annelise

Hanne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:25:12 +0000

As usual I’m still knitting away on shawls. In December I finished Marie, the first of 2 shawls knitted with the yarn my mother sent me. As I never heard back from Filcolana about the grey yarn I decided to go ahead and knit a smallish shawl that would use skein 1 and maybe a couple of the small balls from skein 2. But breakage was not the only problem with that yarn. It turned out that even though they were supposed to be from the same dye lot, they were in fact a bit different. This was not obvious in the skeins/balls but once knitted up it was noticeable. I guess I should’ve smelled a rat when I saw that the printing style for the colour/dye lot was different on the 2 bands, but I didn’t, and as I was using a short circular needle, everything was scrunched up and I didn’t realise the problem until I was about a third of the way through the sideways border. As to what came out of my mouth when I did, I’ll leave it to your imagination. So, I ripped back what I had knitted with skein 2 and pondered my options for a while. Decided to rip back a bit further to a logical place in the pattern and start the 2nd skein from there, but it still didn’t look right. Fortunately I had a little bit of the same kind of yarn in a lighter grey left over from the Inger shawl, so I ended up using that at the bottom of the main body. It distracts the eye from the fact that the grey in the body and the border is not the same. A picture would be a really good way to illustrate my point, but unfortunately my camera has decided it is in need of a new power port. Since that would cost MYR 746 (we paid a little more than MYR 800 for the camera just 2 years ago) I’m without camera until our budget allows for a new one. Anyway, a second Marie from the brown yarn was completed without any further incidents, and I’m currently knitting on Annelise in Retro, a sport weight merino wool by Gepard Garn (discontnued). It’s wonderfully soft, but quite splitty. My mother asked me to knit these shawls for 2 women who were our neighbours when I was growing up, so once I’m done with the Annelise I’ll ship them off to DK and get started on the Refined Aran for my sister. Maybe. I kinda feel like a bit of thread lace. But I also thought I’d try and write up the pattern for the Anglaise shawl to give away for free.

Recently Overheard In My House

Hanne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:05:34 +0000

Mother:”Is it just me or is it a bit cold?”
Daughter:”Why don’t you put on a cadigan or wear one of your shawls.”
Mother:”I don’t have a shawl.”
Daughter:”Didn’t you just make one?”
Mother: “I did, but I gave it away”
Daughter:”You mean that after all those shawls I’ve seen you knit, you still don’t have one?”
Mother: “Yes.”
Daughter: !!!