Cashmere top – and cautiously exploring new territories

That Habu cashmere from Purl sale found it’s form as a sporty tank top, light as feather and soft as *another cliche here*. This came out quite like I imagined it to be BUT i had the worst knitting FAIL during the finishing job. I stretched a bit tight corner of cast on row – and broke the yarn. So there was some heavy cursing and stitching with needle and thread, I dread the day when this whole thing autofrogs itself…

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Summer and the scarves

Ouch, I’m really neglecting this blog! But here are some FO:s from summer. First, my sister kindly modeled that turquoise Montego Bay. I had one skein of lovely Hand Maiden SIlk Maiden yarn, so i reduced few stitches from the scarf width and end up with scarf just long enough. This yarn has very plush texture knitted with this simple stitch, so the scarf still has enough material. What a great yarn, very pleasant to knit with – plus I love that luxurious sheen and softness.

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Summer knitting madness

No, I haven’t quit knitting – just blogging seems not too fascinating right now. I guess that those unfinished patterns bother me quite a lot. So I blowed gently the dust out of my Ophicleide and Harlequin notes, well, I probably can write one post as well…

There is one serious summer knitting madness going on. I guess that the one knit only -restriction when knitting Chevron Sweater backfired a bit :) .

Habu cashmere top
I wanted to do something useful from this lovely yarn.

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So this is the body of sheer tank top, excellent to layer over other garments. 3,5 mm needles, but the knitting is quite fast. There is no purling involved, I just turn around to create the texture.

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Working on

I’ve been busy knitting – but lazy blogging lately. There are several projects going on right now.

I got some cotton yarn from my mom, it’s Garnstudio Muskat in lovely color.

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Shooting to another direction of windowsill… …more gorgeous browns…
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On my toes

Another pair of hippy socks!

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Mom’s gonna get them tomorrow, hope she likes them…

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Previous pair is lovely, but sloppy. Now I knitted a tight surface with 2,5 mm needles. Toe to top sock algorithm is now mounted in my head, so there is no actual pattern. Size is an educated guess.

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Leg is a bit short: another ball had a knot on the red section – and continued with gray *sigh*. Otherwise matching the colourways succeeded pretty well.

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Ouch. Not stiff enough for this…

On Beauty

After the tedious Chevron Sweater I’ve enjoyed the simple pleasure of sock knitting, lovely Silk Garden Lite revisited.

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Another pair of hippy silk Garden socks finished today, now blocking. I hesitate (just a bit) to give these away, as I have thought to do…

Chevron Sweater

I don’t like it – I love it! All tears, frogging, cursing and endless hours of boring chevron pattern with splitting yarn were well worth going through, I adore this sweater.

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Sneak peek

Dress fever

I fell in love with this Mango dress. But. Even if I were not on clothes shopping diet I doubt that I would pay 90 euros from polyester dress, however nice it might be. But perhaps I could make a haul to local silk shop and dig through the bits and pieces basket?

Still in love…

Another one, I’ve been planning this literally for years:

It is so me! And ooh, SATC the Movie in the theatres very soon! Those clothes *swoon*…

This is where I live

Since the Chevron Sweater has two more boring stripes to go, I might post off topic as well… …so here’s a picture heavy post about my neighborhood. Yep, it’s spring here in Helsinki!
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