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January 15, 2007
Alright, I get the point!
The blue is what makes the mitten so nice. I guess I have no choice but to make another one just to keep you people happy! Sara asked to see the thumb side of the mitten. Here it is:
Not much different from the palm side. Ineke asked what yarn I'm using. It's mostly Shetland wool from Klaziens Kreatie. The blue is a left over from my Mermaid cardigan. By the way, Ineke is making (and selling) some lovely knits, I especially like her mittens. Check out her website.
Thanks for clearing up the sweater/cardigan/pullover confusion. There appear to be more differences between American English and British English than I thought. And I don't even know what some kinds of garments are properly called in Dutch... Anyway, it feels odd to me to call a cardigan a sweater, so from now on, I'll try to use the terms cardigan and pullover, so everyone knows what I'm talking about!
I finished T's brown socks. I least I thought I did. When I finished weaving in all the ends I was going to present them to him, and right before that I held the socks together to take a satisfied look at my work. That's when I noticed one sock leg was longer than the other. Bummer.
So I took a deep breath and cut a thread in the leg of the shortest sock. I seperated it in two pieces, put them back on the needles and knit another 10 rows to one of the parts. Then I grafted them together again. And here are the results on the feet of the happy recipient (and a better representation of the color):
Tijm asked about the tag I had attached to my sock in progress. For lots of the sock I have knit for various people in the past years, I keep tags like these:
On them, I write the details of the sock, like the yarn I used, needle size, shoe size of the recipient etc, and the numbers I used with the basic sock pattern I keep in my head. I attach the tag to the sock in progress using a piece of the yarn and a safety pin. When the socks are done, I keep the tag, so I can always go back to it when I want to make more socks like it. If I change something the second time around, I write it on the tag as well. As you can see from the different pieces of yarn tied to his tag, I have made T a number of pairs already! This system works very well for me.
To congratulate myself with finishing these socks, I started not one, but two new projects. One is small:
It will be a baby hat, like this. Cute, no?
And one is big:
The cardigan from Poetry in Stitches, for which I got the yarn from Santa a couple of weeks ago.
Both projects are knit from Rowan Wool Cotton. It's a pleasure to work with! I hope it will wear well.
Posted by saartje at January 15, 2007 9:39 PM
Comments
Brave woman, cutting the socks like that! All your new projects look lovely, and I love the colors you choose too.
Posted by: carrie at January 15, 2007 11:13 PM
I love the idea with the tags. Brilliant!
Posted by: natalja at January 16, 2007 12:24 AM
I really, really, love that mitten! It is gorgeous!!
Posted by: Shelley at January 16, 2007 3:11 AM
I absolutely LOVE the tag idea. I keep notes in a larger notebook at home, but am always wanting a better way to keep sock notes together, and also a small place to write them on when I am toting them around and in progress. I even already have the tags in my drawer. Thank you!!
Posted by: TheAmpuT at January 16, 2007 5:05 AM
I enjoy seeing your WIPs turn into FOs. The colors on that cardigan and hat are beautiful!
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Posted by: Kimberly at January 16, 2007 5:22 AM
Hi, love the mitten! Just wanted to say that Rowan Wool Cotton wears very well indeed. I am planning to make more projects out of it just because it holds up so well to mashine washing and wearing.
Posted by: julia at January 16, 2007 6:31 AM
Bedankt voor je uitleg over de labels. Goed idee. Ik schrijf gegevens in een boekje maar dit vind ik ook erg handig. En leuk van die oude labels.
En wat een lef om die sokken zo door te knippen. Ik zou ook heel hard slikken!
Succes met de dingen waar je nu aan begonnen betn. Het beloofd heel wat!
Posted by: Tijm at January 16, 2007 6:43 AM
Hi, As always: nice pic's! Great mitten, you could sell the pattern! And about the Pixie hat: I've made it too, see my archives, i guess it was winter 2005. Do you go to the Handwerkbeurs in Zwolle? Maybe I go on sat or sun.
Posted by: knittingajour at January 16, 2007 8:10 AM
Inderdaad wat dapper om die sokken zo door te knippen!! De noorse trui vordert gestaag en ik ben erg blij met je vertaling.Als je wilt kun je de trui zien op http://siembreienenzo.web-log.nl/siems_blog/
Posted by: Siem at January 16, 2007 4:49 PM
That mitten is absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: stinkerbell at January 16, 2007 5:07 PM
hallo saartje
per ongeluk ben ik eens op je blog beland een tijdje geleden en sindsdien bekijk het regelmatig.
je maakt mooie dingen
je want heeft subtiele kleuren ,violet,paars en blauw,dezelfde familie.
in het frans is een cardigan een vest, met voorsluiting
un salut de france
marielle
Posted by: marielle at January 16, 2007 5:14 PM
I gasp at the thought of cutting the sock! I am not brave enough to try steeks either. Thankfully, it all worked out well for you (and T). And I appreciate you telling me of a solution to a problem I will surely run across some time.
That beautiful knit with the purple yarn from Santa looks heavenly.
Posted by: Marie N. at January 16, 2007 8:52 PM
De handschoen is echt moei !
Ik hou van de idee van de klein papier op de sokken!
Posted by: Angsoka at January 16, 2007 10:33 PM
Saartje, 1 paar sokken af, 2 nieuwe werkstukken beginnen.... good girl, je sterkt me in mijn twijfel; heb net een paar sokken af en wilde meteen met wat nieuws beginnen, maar vond dat ik eerst verder met mijn Birch sjaal moest gaan. Nou nee dus, laat maar varen dat principieele gedrag, meteen naar nog een ander werkje! Dank je! En wat een leuke babymuts............. !
Posted by: Marijgje at January 18, 2007 9:05 AM
ha wat een beetje digitale druk kan doen. Ben je al bezig met want nr. 2?
Dat mutsje heb ik ook al vaak bekeken op het net. Zo schattig, die foto!
Posted by: rineke at January 21, 2007 5:08 PM
I've been watching the photos from the European storms this week and it looks like the Netherlands took a big hit. Hope you're OK.
About the mittens: The blue is OK, but as a painter I think shades of green (gray-green to avocado)--close to the opposite side of the color wheel-- would have been an easier choice. Analogous colors are easy to do well (such as blue-and-green); complementary colors are easy to do well (such as reddish purple-and-olive); but purple-and-blue is hard to getjust right. I too agonize over colors. Color perfection is an elusive joy.
Posted by: sanni at January 21, 2007 7:17 PM
Echt mooi je handschoenen. Handig die labels, ik schrijf het in een schrift. Een mooi schrift. Lef je een sok langer dan de andere sokoplossing. Ik zou het niet durven.
Posted by: yvonnep at January 22, 2007 9:28 PM
Hi Saartje,
I've corresponded with you once before about good knitting shops in Noord Holland (I live in Enkhuizen). I've still not made it to the one you recommended in Bergen.
I have a second copy of the Winter issue of Interweave Knits and I wondered whether you might want it? If you'll email your postal address I'll send it on!
Posted by: Ashley at January 25, 2007 9:41 PM
Wat mooi zeg! I absolutely ADORE your mittens!
Posted by: herpnknit at January 25, 2007 11:20 PM
