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Tag Archives: sweater

Wordless Woolly Wednesday

17 Wednesday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Knitting, Yarn and Fiber

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alpaca, autumn, clothing, green, sweater, yarn

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Alpaca cardigan 4 threads Drops yarn, daisy chain stitch

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Panels 1 – knitblocks 1

18 Monday Jul 2016

Posted by Pia in Knitting, Show-and-tell, Yarn and Fiber

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anti fashion, clothing, crafts, design, inspiration, knit samples, panels, slow cloth, sweater, wool

Can’t promise panels without beginning to think them up at least, so here comes first edition, feel free to join in with your own splendid ideas, please.

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NO NO this is NOT what I’m talking about!

As mentioned I see two things happening in my knitting: simplifying shapes and designs even more, as in go back to drop shoulders rather than some form of set in type, and more of a one-size fits all instead of current measurements and a shaped waist, because let’s face it, it’s probably not coming back. Continue reading →

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Designing with panels

15 Friday Jul 2016

Posted by Pia in Felting, Knitting, Sewing, Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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anti fashion, clothing, crafts, design, inspiration, panels, slow cloth, sweater, upcycling

Having whined ad nauseam about my new grandmotherly weight class I thought it about time to share some solutions I’ve pondered (apart from eating less). There are wardrobe issues such as:

1139-2Winter warmth – just about the only menopause symptom I haven’t had is hot flashes. Oh no, I get all the obscure ones. Woollen sweaters sometimes take me years to finish, so imagine how long they can be worn if you grow 1-2 sizes per year. Oh and the mild weather sweaters take longer because thinner yarn = smaller stitches! So I’m going to reinvent my construction method, which usually means a fairly close knit or the wind just blows right through to my delicate skin. Even indoors believe it or not. Also, tighter knits and firmer yarns have better durability to wear and tear that the looser, more flattering drapy fabrics don’t. The problem being of course they don’t have as much give and leave you feeling like a sausage as soon as your planned ease turns negative.

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WIP Wednesday

17 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by Pia in Books & reading, Chit Chat, Knitting, Show-and-tell, Yarn and Fiber

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alpaca, clothing, green, sweater, wool, yarn, yarn along

Some reading, some progress on my cardigan after yet another knitting break.

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Unfortunately I went through these books much too fast and now I’m without fiction again. Continue reading →

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Show and Tell Week: Warpwips

29 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, colourways, creativity, inspiration, sweater, wool

Yet another leftovers / thrift shop / “usewhatyouhave” project. Or several actually. I’m winding colours separately for blending in the reed. Let’s hope I still feel like doing this, when my looms are empty some day in the future! There’s leftovers, handspun, some green from a frogged dress of my mum’s, single skeins of whatever.

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Show and Tell Week: Knitwips

28 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Knitting, Show-and-tell, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, intention, relax, seasons, sweater, winter, WIP Wednesday, wool

My ego would have liked to only show finished projects this week and of course some very lovely ones. But that’s simply not how life rolls as you’ve already noticed, so today I’ll just show you what I aim to be knitting the next couple of months. That way she’ll have quantity over quality at least and I’ll fulfill her ambition to do a post every day of the week.

For my non-tv knitting I’m trying out a new to me stitch apparently called daisy chain, it requires a bit of focus and good light.. And since I couldn’t find the heathered green/black yarn in my head, I opted for multiple strands of Drops Alpaca, 4 actually, to make it more likely to be finished this season on 7-8 mm needles. A thick cardigan in progress. No pattern as usual…

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Corriedale(?) sweater(?) 1

23 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by Pia in Spinning, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, funyarn, stash busting, sweater, wool

Week before last I threatened to spin all the corridale tops, which of course I didn’t, since the dog calmed down enough for me to act fairly normal, although interrupted. 😉

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My second colour turned out much fatter than the first while getting the hang of making slubs, so I decided to Continue reading →

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Spinning again

11 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by Pia in Spinning, Yarn and Fiber

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colour, corriedale, pets, stash busting, sweater, wool

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We’re babysitting our inlaw “pup” since Thursday night, a 1 yo ADHD lab called Balto. Our cats are terrified, Arthur, perhaps needing medical attention to a war wound, won’t come in at all, but I was hoping that keeping the house divided in half would at least prevent any mad chasing. This also means I’ll have to stay in the room with the dog most of the time or he’d bark everyone’s heads off (even more than he does in my face). Morning, noon and in the middle of the night. When he’s not attempting to sleep on my feet. The three younger cats never met Max, they only knew an elderly and very sedate Molly.

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Back in the game

11 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Knitting, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 9 Comments

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blogging, clothing, life, sweater

Found a “new” identical motherboard on ebay.de and G graciously installed it for me today even though he spent all of yesterday on somebody else’s computer. Technically I could do that kind of hardware swapping myself, but I’m quite rusty and never as thorough, just tend to ram it all in at once without testing on the way. Because: “oh, it’ll be fine”.

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Glimpse

24 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Knitting, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, fiber friday, grey, life, sweater, winter, wool

As my life speed has slowed down to a crawl, I do try to keep up the creative spirit in little fits and starts.

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