Imagine when ...

... it's cold outside and you can keep warm with a nice shawl:

Imagine when by Joji

Carradal ...

... a shawl.

A wonderful shawl with all things Melly loves: cables and stockinette and pink ;-)

Another testknit for Lucy Hague ... I really adore her patterns!

I used Regia Harmony Color for the body of the shawl and Regia Uni/ Solid for the cabled egde.

I wanted to use a different colour for the border at first, but it was thinner than the Regia, so I didn’t use it.
Customization: Every time the “pinkish” shades of the yarn appeared I alternated the balls of yarn A and B as said in pattern (but only then).

Started on Dec 12, 2013
Finished on Dec 23, 2013

Sea Line Shawl ...

... ein Teststrick für die Designerin Nuria Pastor.

Ein wunderschönes Tuch mit einem neuen Ansatz für das altbekannte Ol' Shale Muster 

(Pfauen- oder Wellenmuster).

Leicht zu stricken, leicht abzuwandeln und mit einem tollen Ergebnis. :-D

 Und mit der Schoppel Admiral mit Bambus und Seide absolut kompatibel ... ach was sag ich da? 

Ein Strick-orgasmus vom Feinsten *gacker*

Modell ist meine Jüngste (nun schon 14 Jahre) und verschenkt wurde er direkt an's Nachbarsmädel,

 die ihr Glück gar nicht fassen konnte. :-D

B-day-Joy and La Sarita ...

First of all I would like to thank all my dear friends 
for the B-day wishes yesterday on Ravelry and on Facebook.
You have made my day brighter and cheerier ;-)

(((BIG-MELLY-HUGGLEZ)))

Second I would like to introduce
"LA SARITA"

Pattern La Sarita by Janet Weston

Status:  Finished

Started:  September 2 2012

Completed:  September 5 2012

 

 

 Needle and yarn

 Needle US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yarn anabelcolori "zauberhand"

How much?1 skeins = 437.4 yards (400.0m) 

 

Notes:

 

A wonderful pattern and a great knit! 

Never get's boring, because the bottom-up architecture let's you make the lacey 

(and longish .... more than 400 sts to cast on) part first 

and then you get to learn a "new" estonian stitch and after that you just do short rows.

The I-cord bind-off is perfect for this project :-D

 

Ahem ... yes ... BEADS were optional ... 

so I didn't do them ( I am not quite the "beader" ...LOL)

With this project I also tried something I saw the other day in the projects of a fellow Raveler:

Folded blocking (<-- that's what I shall call it) ... 

you fold your shawl in half and block it with blocking wires and pins ... 

yes, you get a middle fold ....BUT the shawl turns absolutely symmetrical and it uses less blocking space ;-)

 

Clapo-Ktus

Pattern Clapo-Ktus by Loredana Gianferri

Status Finished

Started June 28 2012

Completed July 3 2012 

 

 Needle and yarn

 Needle:US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

 

 Yarn: Zauberwiese Sockenwolle Merino/Leinen

 How much? 1 skeins = 437.0 yards (399.6m)

 Colorway: primel 

 Color family: Yellow-orange

 

 

a-MAZE-ing ...

... just so amazing! A wonderful shawl! ;-)

Pattern:  a-MAZE-ing Shawl by Maria Olsson

Status Finished

Started June 9 2012

Completed June 17 2012

Needle and yarn
Needle: US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

Yarn: Wollmeise "Pure" 100% Merino Superwash

How much? 0.93 skeins = 534.8 yards (489.0m)

Colorway:  Limone

Color family:  Yellow
Purchased at:Rohrspatz & Wollmeise in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bayern

Notes

testknit for pysselochknap
Testing the written instructions :-)

wear silk on the Orient Express ...

Pattern:  Orient Express by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 23 2012

Completed May 27 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needle

US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

Yarn

Drachenwolle Sockenwolle mit Seide und Ramie

How much? 1 skein = 438.0 yards (400.5m)

Colorway: brownish

Purchased at Drachenwolle in Dusslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

Purchase date: January 2008

 

Notes 

 

Wonderful pattern, great and quick knit!
Thanks to catger for this pattern-present! :-D

Nice yarn, although a bit stiff while knitting….but it softens up a little while soaking :-)

modelled by Cynthia, my youngest daughter (12)

"Geometrical Lunatics" ;-P

 ... is what always comes to my mind, when reading the name of the pattern ..lol

Lunatis Geometria by Sara Louise Bygvraa

Status Finished

Started May 21 2012

Completed May 22 2012

Needle and yarn 
 

Needle: 3,5 mm

Yarn

Wetterhoff Silvia

How much?

1 skeins = 547.0 yards (500.2m)

Colorway: grey

Purchased at: a gift from Rubanna 

 

Notes:

Beautiful pattern, although the start from the bottom upwards is a pain ... but it gets really quick at the end (which is nice!) and it has a lovely result.

 

I would like to recommend to bind off using the I-cord bindoff, because a simple bindoff doesn't give a sturdy enough edging and it tends to roll in while wearing it ;-)

It needs blocking .... I know ;-)

 

 

Magical Moments on the TGV

 

TGV (High Speed Knitting) by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 15 2012

Completed May 19 2012 

 

Needle: 3,5 mm

Yarn

Lang Yarns Jawoll Magic Dégradé

How much?

1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6m)

Colorway : 85.0066

Color family: Black-Pink

Purchased at: this was a gift

 

Notes

Started out as “Orient Express”, but I changed my mind and this is going to be a “TGV” … 

(yes! another one! *giggles madly*)

going to choose some other yarn for the OE … something to bring out the lace more.

 

 Once again VERY HAPPY with the result :-D

 

 modelled by youngest daughter (12 years old)

 

There are pink seashells, aren't there?

Simply Seashells by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 3 2012

Completed May 14 2012 

Needles:

US 4 - 3.5 mm

US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yarn:

Drachenwolle Sockenwolle Handgefärbt

How much? 1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

Colorway  this is an old DW - from 2007 I think

Color family Pink

Purchased at Drachenwolle in Dusslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

Purchase date December 2007

Notes:

I loved every single moment of this knit ... the yarn, the pattern, the colours!

It is supposed to be a quick knit, but I had to be quite busy doing other things ... so this took a while.

I donated it to be bid on for a charity event and the proceeds of it  (a 35 whooping Euros ... yay!) 

went to a charity called "Wünsch Dir Was"

Rocky Mountaineer

 

 

 

Rocky Mountaineer by Susan Ashcroft 

 

 

Status Finished

Started April 26 2012

Completed May 1 2012 

 

knitted for WDW-Treff 2012 - winner was hundschnuffelchen

 

Needle and yarn

Needle US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

Yarn:Rico Design Superba Poems

How much? 1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

 

Notes

The pattern is beautiful! The shawl is gorgeous!
Wonderfully written and easy to follow!
Susan, you are a genius! ♥

 

---

  The yarn was giving me a hard time…
changing from parts where it was a Sport-weight rather than fingering to parts where is was more like a lace-yarn…keeping tension was very hard because of that.
The colours of the yarn are lovely though… but I would never buy this yarn again!

Caught in a spider's web ...

  

Beautiful cobweb by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started April 20 2012

Completed April 23 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needles:

US 4 - 3.5 mm

US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yarn:

Dornröschen-Wolle Dornröschens Sockenwolle

How much?

1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

Colorway: handdyed black-violet

Color family: Black

a gift from niniflix 

 

 Notes

I really enjoyed this pattern! Definitely a “must knit” :-D
I used every gram of the 100 grams I had of this yarn.
Leftover about 4 inches of yarn ;-)

 

Rainbow TGV

Status Finished

Started April 16 2012

Completed April 18 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needle  US 4 - 3.5 mm 

Yarn:

Dornröschen-Wolle Sockenwolle mit Glitzereffekt

How much? 1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6m)

Colorway :"Plakativer Regenbogen"

A gift from Dani

 

Notes

April 16th: started at about 11.30 pm .. this is going to be wonderful
April 17th: I think the “hem” is a tad tight … but I am not frogging!!!
 I hope washing and blocking will solve the problem
April 18th: finished!!

WONDERFUL!

April 19th: washed and hung up on the washing line…
and yes! the problem with the hem is solved  :-)

 

Eastereggs and "shawly" treats ...

So there! 

No chocolate-eastereggs for poor Miss Melly this year, but instead ... 

and I have to admit, that this is soooo much better than chocs
(but *shshsh* don't tell my parents, who gave this "easter-treat" to me!)  ... 

I got a pattern!!! From my parents!!! Now how cool is that??? :-D

"A lovely and great and nice and pleasing to the eye" pattern ...

a shawl pattern! (oh!--oh!)

 - fellow knitters who really DO know me will be thinking: 
"A shawl pattern for Miss Melly? Well....good luck with that, it will never get finished" -

Not really being a shawl-knitter (and -wearer)  and also living up to that reputation
(abso-knitting-lutely sticking to that!)
I really do enjoy looking at all those really nice shawls and shawlettes
and scarfs and wraps and "knick-knacks" on various pattern-pages
and also have been caught putting them into my queue on Ravelry,
but only once in a while  seldom I really manage gathering the guts
and patience to knit one. - insert "like never" into this sentence without saying it loud ... lol .. -

But this one is different 
and it is bound to change something in my knitterly-life:

 Dubliner 

I did some stash-diving and found some yarn I liked  and could use for it

and started on April 9th...and had fun!!! I really did!!! :-D

After 5 repeats of the "body-chart"

Now how surprising is that?

I have to say: Not too surprising at all!!!

It IS a very nice pattern, completely reversible when finished
and the lace edgings and the cable-part of the shawl are bound to keep my "knitting-ADS" at bay ;-)

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT KNIT??? DEFINITELY!!!

And here we go....-whooping 4 days later- on April 12th:

HEUREKA! IT IS FINISHED!!

drying after washing - didn't block it, but instead chose to just pull it into shape and let it dry over night

FINISHED! dreary day, so no "outside" pictures:-(

I used about 130 grams of OPAL Cotton 4-ply Sockyarn and 3,5 mm circular needles.
I did 12 increase chart-repeats and 10 body chart-repeats and then 12 decrease chart-repeats :-D

And my Mum absolutely loves it! :-D

... so she says anyway ...