The Magic Ball arrived...

Yeah!
A few days before Sinterklaas (Dutch tradition), my package (from my secret Magice Bal Swap, a Dutch swap group) arrived...
The pictures give you the idea how much I'm spoiled, THANK YOU!

Still in my green period, I guess..

1/4 is ready: this will be a sock for my mother in law.

The first sock I'm knitting on a 12" circ needle, don't cast on less then 60 st!

It's a 2mm.

And here a detail of the stitchmarker I like the most:
A new project: A Kiri shawl. You all know the Birch from Rowan, but this pattern starts with 7 st, instead of the 6859478 Birch stitches ;).

It's a free pattern, you can find it here.

I'm making it with the French Mohair (with silk) it was given to me at my birthday by my sister and mother (and they will visit my SnB group this week!!).

My weekend project: Baby hat with Leaf Edging

Made from stash cotton (Yeah, 2 balls less!!). First you make the red border sideways and then pick up st. on the side for the green part.

This one is for a friends baby who will be born in December

Free pattern: Button Hat

FREE PATTERN

BUTTON HAT






NOVEMBER 2006

SIZE:I’ve made this hat for my almost 4 y/o, his headsize: 48 cm, but this is a very tight hat.

YARN:
Any yarn that give you this gauge: 14 st. x 20 rows on 4,5 dpns.
I used red and green (R and G)

AND:
4,5 mm dpns
crochethook
tapestryneedle
button

HOW TO MAKE IT:
CO 56 st, divide over 4 needles (14 each needle).
K2/P2 for 7 rounds in R.
Go on in st.st with the R and G, in spiral
18 rounds, counting from the rib.

Round 19: K1, K2tog, k the other st. on that needle.
Repeat this for the other 3 needles.

Decrease every 3th round like round 19.

Go on like this untill the’re 2 st left (I used only R in the last 7 rounds in the top)
Skip 1 st over the last, cut the yarn (long tail, so you can use it for the top AND to fasten the button), pull the yarn trough the last st.
Take you crochethook, make 10 st. and fasten it with a tapestryneedle in the round.

Choose a button, place it between two decreasing”stripes”.
Ready!

copyright: Knitting Ajour

finished socks and pics

And here the things that came home to me after last saturday:

Knittingbooks

Almost finished socks

And yesterday I finished them

Some needles

Bamboo, normal and really short ones.
And "needleholders" very kind gifted to me from Saskia (thanks again, there really "handig"!).

The red wool (2x100 gram) from The Yarn Sisters (Klaziens Kreatie) will be a shawl or ?

First Stitch n Bitch Day Netherlands

Saturdaymorning 18th november:
After a beautifull bikingtour trough my city, I arrived at De Van Nelle Fabriek (see pictures overhere , and a great story about this day too).
Checked how she was doing, and walked my first (of many) round(s).


There was a lot to see:
A LONG table to knit
Lot of different shops (books, yarn, yarn, yarn, yarn, patterns and gear)
Knit a River project
Workshop "aquarium"
etc.
When the doors opened at 10, tons of women (and some men) walked in.
For me it was like 2000 people, but I read somewhere, there were 800 knitters together.

At 12, my sister and one of my aunts arrived from Apeldoorn. It was great to see them! We did more walking/buying and finally sat down and knit and eat sandwiches.
Our aunt spoiled us, so we could buy something nice, so sweet.



I saw a lot of bloggers, other "famous" knitters, and what I really liked: All the shawls, cardigans, scarves, sweaters etc everybody carefully chosen to wear!
"Birches", "Clapotis-sen", Starmoredesigns, shrugs etc.

There was one knitted masterpiece: The "frost shawl", worn by the sister in law from Saartje and knitted by her mother.

The queenlady herself was there: Debbie Stoller, and I really hope she had the time this day to remember her important rol in this all!

And check this shop (also online): I Knit . They have yarn made from Banana's and doing good things (like the Knit A River project, and have knittingmeetings the whole week!)

There's a lot more to tell, but just read and see the other Dutch Knitting Blogs to get an impression!

On the Knittingfrontnews:

I will be finishing my striped socks very soon..
Start pinkish socks for my mother in law, she needs them a lot...
And want to start the Candle Flame Shawl in green mohair, or red Klazien yarn.(free pattern by Knitpicks overhere) .

Welkom AD lezers!

Voor iedereen die hier nog nooit heeft rondgekeken: kijk ook in de sidebar, en de archieven. En vergeet natuurlijk niet door te klikken naar andere sites!

Vandaag (donderdag) sta ik in het AD.

De foto is gemaakt door E. van der Zon.

Ik ben tevreden over het stukje, maar er staan wel 2 fouten in:
Breigoeroe "Debbie Storm" moet natuurlijk Debbie Stoller zijn, ik denk dat de schrijfster in de war is met deze dame .

En in de titel van het stuk staat mijn naam verkeerd geschreven, ik ben zonder C.

I'm in the papers! Because of the First National SnB day, this saturday, there's a lot of press interested in the knitting life of young Dutch women. Televisionshows are calling, and want knitters in the show!

Buttonhat and Almost-Knee-High socks

Knitted in 1 day: the Button Hat. It's made with old yarn (bought 2 bags of wool, reds and greens for 6 euro) called: " 3s suizasport". Pattern: myself, needles: 4,5 mm.
I really like this shape, but the top down with the button is a good option too.
And here are my first "almost kneehigh socks". Made with Trekking xxl (100), bought at the Fair in Den Bosch. Pattern: my own, needles: 2,0 and 2,5 mm.
For those who are going to Rotterdam this saturday: I will be wearing these socks in my see-trough-boots.

Say hi, I won't bite!

If you like to see more pictures: You can go to my flickr page.

Cityknitting

On the boat trough the harbours of my city, knitting at the scarf for my father. His birthday was in April, and I let him choose between socks or a scarf.

So it's REALLY time to make this soft beauty (yarn is wool/alpaca/cashmere).

Hutspot, sock and newspaper

My latest design: The Hutspot Hat
The model is my son (4 years old), the hat was meant for my daughter (1yo), but its way too big for her...

Hutspot Hat
Needles: 4,5 mm
Yarn: Maya, Debbie Bliss
Pattern: invented myself

And here my toe-up, short row, stripe sock. The yarn is dyed in "my" colours by
her. Knitted on 2 mm. The second sock will be knitted during THE BIG DAY.

Other knitting-related news: I was interviewed by het AD, (newspaper), and will be published next week thursday in the "UIT-bijlage, landelijke editie".

hat without a name detail

hat without a name detail
Originally uploaded by knitting ajour.

This picture didn't want to get posted yesterday, so here it is!