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Showing posts with label yarnster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yarnster. Show all posts
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Granny Square in fashion
I've never understood why people insist on making clothes of granny squares... It is so tacky and looks just horrible.
Then there's the occational good ones... Like this one that I randomly found. I like this! I kinda want to try and make me one of these scarfs! And the colourful jacket ain't to bad aswell!
Friday, September 5, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Yarn for days!
Hello everybody! I am back! I've been without a laptop for a week and a half now so it's good to be back and now able to watch my videos on a bigger screen with better speakers and a actual working keyboard! I serriously have no idea how people can go on with tables and smartphones only... They're handy and easy to carry around, sure, but they are so danged limited! I'd go nuts without my laptop for a longer period of time!
Anyways... I'm finally back after a very hectic and active week and a half. From monday to thursday, I've been in Oslo, the capitol of Norway with my mom and aunt and we've been walking around in blazing heat for four days! On tuesday we walked for 18km (11 miles)! We were all over the place...more or less. We did a lot of shopping of course and I managed to get me a good bunch of yarn...and other small things but they aren't really important for this blog.
First yarn purchase was five skeins of Alpaca from Drops. I love this yarn and I'm using it for another pair of leggings for my niece. I'll tell you guys more about that at a later time.
Next up is 10 skeins of this amazingly fluffy mohair yarn. Marks & Kattens Kid Mohair, 76% kid mohair and 24% polyamid. This is some old brand that I found a bunch of at a hobby store at a very low price. I just couldn't pass it up! I bought it all with the intention of working up another hoodie like the blue baked bean one. Just need to wait for another yarn sale so I can get some cheap alpaca or maybe even merino to go with it! This one will most likely be a huge Creeper reference so I will have to get black buttons! BTW, the yarn is bright green apple-ish in colour.
Lastly, we went to this store that has just about everything you'll ever and never need called Søstrene Grene. I did purchase some other things that I'll never need too (like paper napkins with the UK flag on it), but I was originally stopping by to pick up some cotton yarn. Søstrene Grene has so many interesting and unique colours compared to my regular cotton brands, and I've never tried these before, so of course I had to get some fresh ones! Just look at these! Ain't they beautiful?
And of course I've done some knitting too, not as much as I've liked to, but during the evenings and the train rides, there was enough time to get enough work done. I managed to finish up three dishcloths, all from new patterns made by Bittami. I'll probably get better pictures of them sometime later after I've weaved in the ends and whatnot.
I also brought my watermelon shawl with me and maneged to finish it up. I've yet to block it so new updates with better pictures to come, but I'm very pleased with the shape and size of it! Will most likely end up using my remaining Delano yarn for two more shawls.
BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE!!! Last sunday, I walked the "Dovrefjellsmarsjen" which is a path going up the mountains in Dovrefjell from Grønbakken to Hjerkinn. It's tiresome, expecially for me being the least active person on earth, but I managed to finish it, making it my fifth time ever to walk that path. One more time and I get the silver pin! But enough about that...when my mom and I reached the other side, we went to the cafeteria/resturant thingy for food, and they had a tiny section for souvenirs, which included this knitting kit for the Dovrevotten/Dovre mittens. It has the Pilgrimsleden symbol on it as well and my mom just had to buy it. Once we got home, she handed me the kit and told me to work them up for her. I love fair-isle, but I have little to no experience working fair-isle on DPN's, and it always turns out way worse than it usually does on circular. But I am a bit pleased with the result of this first mitten! It needs a good bunch of blocking to get the stitches cleaner, but it is not half bad. Will have to work up a bunch of these just to practice!
And one last yarn related thing while I'm at it... My mom's boss gave this huge bag full of yarn to my mother some time ago. It was all a huge UFO of a jacket she had been working on at some point in the 90's if I were to guess. Apparently, she was so tired of it all and never wanted to see it again. My mom then handed the bag to me and told me to frog it and maybe work something else up with it all. Here's a picture of the back of the jacket. I was almost a shame frogging it all...
And frogging it was a total nightmare! Just look at all this! All these skeins had been worked on at the same time! That's a lot of work...
I hardly know anything about the yarn itself either. It's called St. Germain and looks really old. It's fluffy, kinda chunky and fairly thick. The label reads 96% Schurwolle, 4% Polyester and my guess is wool. If there's any german speaking people reading my blog, please, let me know if you know anything about this yarn, or can tell me what Schurwolle actually means...or confirm that it's actually just normal wool.
There's tons of skeins in these four colours as you can see in the pictures above. Several of the scrap skeins are really small, so I'm pondering the idea of making a granny square blanket of it all.
Phew! That's a lot of yarn speak! But that's what happends when you go so long without updating! See you guys later!
Anyways... I'm finally back after a very hectic and active week and a half. From monday to thursday, I've been in Oslo, the capitol of Norway with my mom and aunt and we've been walking around in blazing heat for four days! On tuesday we walked for 18km (11 miles)! We were all over the place...more or less. We did a lot of shopping of course and I managed to get me a good bunch of yarn...and other small things but they aren't really important for this blog.
First yarn purchase was five skeins of Alpaca from Drops. I love this yarn and I'm using it for another pair of leggings for my niece. I'll tell you guys more about that at a later time.
Next up is 10 skeins of this amazingly fluffy mohair yarn. Marks & Kattens Kid Mohair, 76% kid mohair and 24% polyamid. This is some old brand that I found a bunch of at a hobby store at a very low price. I just couldn't pass it up! I bought it all with the intention of working up another hoodie like the blue baked bean one. Just need to wait for another yarn sale so I can get some cheap alpaca or maybe even merino to go with it! This one will most likely be a huge Creeper reference so I will have to get black buttons! BTW, the yarn is bright green apple-ish in colour.
Lastly, we went to this store that has just about everything you'll ever and never need called Søstrene Grene. I did purchase some other things that I'll never need too (like paper napkins with the UK flag on it), but I was originally stopping by to pick up some cotton yarn. Søstrene Grene has so many interesting and unique colours compared to my regular cotton brands, and I've never tried these before, so of course I had to get some fresh ones! Just look at these! Ain't they beautiful?
And of course I've done some knitting too, not as much as I've liked to, but during the evenings and the train rides, there was enough time to get enough work done. I managed to finish up three dishcloths, all from new patterns made by Bittami. I'll probably get better pictures of them sometime later after I've weaved in the ends and whatnot.
I also brought my watermelon shawl with me and maneged to finish it up. I've yet to block it so new updates with better pictures to come, but I'm very pleased with the shape and size of it! Will most likely end up using my remaining Delano yarn for two more shawls.
And one last yarn related thing while I'm at it... My mom's boss gave this huge bag full of yarn to my mother some time ago. It was all a huge UFO of a jacket she had been working on at some point in the 90's if I were to guess. Apparently, she was so tired of it all and never wanted to see it again. My mom then handed the bag to me and told me to frog it and maybe work something else up with it all. Here's a picture of the back of the jacket. I was almost a shame frogging it all...
And frogging it was a total nightmare! Just look at all this! All these skeins had been worked on at the same time! That's a lot of work...
I hardly know anything about the yarn itself either. It's called St. Germain and looks really old. It's fluffy, kinda chunky and fairly thick. The label reads 96% Schurwolle, 4% Polyester and my guess is wool. If there's any german speaking people reading my blog, please, let me know if you know anything about this yarn, or can tell me what Schurwolle actually means...or confirm that it's actually just normal wool.
There's tons of skeins in these four colours as you can see in the pictures above. Several of the scrap skeins are really small, so I'm pondering the idea of making a granny square blanket of it all.
Phew! That's a lot of yarn speak! But that's what happends when you go so long without updating! See you guys later!
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Yoshi's Woolly World!
This will be game blogentry, yet still yarn related... So now you're warned!
Right now, E3 is going on in Los Angeles. What is E3 you ask? Electronic Entertainment Expo. A gigantic gaming convention where the most popular and famous game producers come together to show the world their upcomming games. Then why am I talking about this on a crafting blog?
Well, I am a gigantic gaming nerd. I love games, I always have and they're a huge part of my life. If you've been following my blog for some time, you might have seen some of my game related tattoo's and shirts. And even though all that's fine and all, this still isn't really a gaming blog. So let's put some craft into the mix, shall we?
Last year, Nintendo announced a new game where you got Yoshi in this world created of yarn. And today, during their E3 "press conference" they showed more of this new game and also revealed the name: Yoshi's Woolly World. How awesome is that?
A whole game where everything is yarn related! And this isnt' the first one either. In 010, Nintendo released a game where Kirby is locked up in a world of yarn, called Kirby's Epic Yarn. But this time, it's Yoshi's turn! You know, the green dinosaur that Mario rides around on? Everybody knows Yoshi. And in this game, he's crocheted! I can allready see that the whole gaming yarnsters out there will be crocheting Yoshi's for years to come.
The whole game is knit, crochet and sewn.
So cute and so much fun!
What else's so amazing is that they showed us and talked about how they came to creating this, and we see two of the directors and producers sitting in a yarn shop, talking about yarn and how they wanted it all to look. I was sold as soon as they walked into the yarn shop. I love this!
Too much fun and it just goes to show that Nintendo cater to every type of fan they got. I love Nintendo, I always will, and now I need a god damn crochet Yoshi sitting on my shelf!
The game will be released some time next year for the Wii U.
Right now, E3 is going on in Los Angeles. What is E3 you ask? Electronic Entertainment Expo. A gigantic gaming convention where the most popular and famous game producers come together to show the world their upcomming games. Then why am I talking about this on a crafting blog?
Well, I am a gigantic gaming nerd. I love games, I always have and they're a huge part of my life. If you've been following my blog for some time, you might have seen some of my game related tattoo's and shirts. And even though all that's fine and all, this still isn't really a gaming blog. So let's put some craft into the mix, shall we?
Last year, Nintendo announced a new game where you got Yoshi in this world created of yarn. And today, during their E3 "press conference" they showed more of this new game and also revealed the name: Yoshi's Woolly World. How awesome is that?
A whole game where everything is yarn related! And this isnt' the first one either. In 010, Nintendo released a game where Kirby is locked up in a world of yarn, called Kirby's Epic Yarn. But this time, it's Yoshi's turn! You know, the green dinosaur that Mario rides around on? Everybody knows Yoshi. And in this game, he's crocheted! I can allready see that the whole gaming yarnsters out there will be crocheting Yoshi's for years to come.
The whole game is knit, crochet and sewn.
So cute and so much fun!
What else's so amazing is that they showed us and talked about how they came to creating this, and we see two of the directors and producers sitting in a yarn shop, talking about yarn and how they wanted it all to look. I was sold as soon as they walked into the yarn shop. I love this!
Too much fun and it just goes to show that Nintendo cater to every type of fan they got. I love Nintendo, I always will, and now I need a god damn crochet Yoshi sitting on my shelf!
The game will be released some time next year for the Wii U.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The yarn count!
Welp... It's first of january allready (only two more days until my birthday! Woop woop! Nooo...) and I've done my counting of thy yarnz. The standings for last year looks like this:
Start 1.1.13: 14250gr
Purchased/recieved: 13800 gr
Knitted/given away: 12300 gr
Total weight: 15750gr
And after a run through my yarn storage, I realised that I got more yarn than this and I must have missed super hard somewhere! Cause after I counted it all (atleast what I could find lying around...I'm a scatterbrain), I ended up with 349 skeins! Which then translates to 17450gr! If you're wondering, 50gr skeins are the normal skein size over here and just about every single skein I own are of this size. The few others that's 100gr or more have not been counted for since it only creates a problem in my statitics. The same goes for scraps BTW...
But of all of this, about 25 skeins were acryllic, which I hate... 50 were cotton/bamboo while the rest were different kinds of wool, wool blends, acryllic and a tiny bit merino. That's alot of yarn ya'll...
I got about 17 skeins reserved for a Marius sweater for my boyfriend. Another 17 skeins of Drops Nepal for a cable sweater I started last autumn. A whole bag of 23 Drops Lima in different colors + scraps reserved for a skirt! Not to mention all the wool yarn my mother bought for me to make her two chair blankets... That's atleast 10 whole skeins + a bunch of scraps.
Start 1.1.13: 14250gr
Purchased/recieved: 13800 gr
Knitted/given away: 12300 gr
Total weight: 15750gr
And after a run through my yarn storage, I realised that I got more yarn than this and I must have missed super hard somewhere! Cause after I counted it all (atleast what I could find lying around...I'm a scatterbrain), I ended up with 349 skeins! Which then translates to 17450gr! If you're wondering, 50gr skeins are the normal skein size over here and just about every single skein I own are of this size. The few others that's 100gr or more have not been counted for since it only creates a problem in my statitics. The same goes for scraps BTW...
But of all of this, about 25 skeins were acryllic, which I hate... 50 were cotton/bamboo while the rest were different kinds of wool, wool blends, acryllic and a tiny bit merino. That's alot of yarn ya'll...
I got about 17 skeins reserved for a Marius sweater for my boyfriend. Another 17 skeins of Drops Nepal for a cable sweater I started last autumn. A whole bag of 23 Drops Lima in different colors + scraps reserved for a skirt! Not to mention all the wool yarn my mother bought for me to make her two chair blankets... That's atleast 10 whole skeins + a bunch of scraps.
Here's the closet I'm supposed to have my yarn in... I don't think even half is actually in there!
And you know the worst thing? You can never have too much yarn!
Welcome to my new blog!
Hello everyone! Welcome to my new and shiny blog!
...well, it's not that new since it's been up for quite some time by now...but this is the first blogpost!
I'm 24 years old...in two more days, cause january 3rd is my birthday! I live in Norway along with my boyfriend Bård (you international people may call him Bayaard...long story) and my cat Pepsi.
You may know me as KnitLizzy on deviantART...or maybe even LARvonCL
I decided to start this new blog to get just about everthing yarn related away from my other blog...since it's been drowning in that stuff lately and it is really supposed to be a videogame/goldsmith blog...cause that's why I made it and that's how it's designed...up until I lost my job cause of a stupid new owner and I started knitting 24/7 instead...which took over and made be dread posting anything related to other stuff. Well, enough about that. I got this new blog to unfold my knitting instead. And with the day by day progress, I'm hoping to wake my blogging skills up and active again on them both!
I was first thinking about doing knitting vlogs and post them on Youtube, but I'm afraid of hearing my own voice, and with speaking english since it's not my first language, I don't have the best pronounciation and I'm having trouble with verbs and words and what have you. This is easier and I can stay mute!
The reason why this blog is in english? Well, for one: I'm trying to reach out to a wider audience... Two: most of my crafting friends are international. I got this awesome crafting group on deviantART and we chat and have fun while we craft. Most of them are from America, but we also got some from Canada, England and Netherland. These are some of my dearest friends right now, and I'd hate to exclude them from this blog...expecially seeing how dreadfull Google Translate is...
But welcome! I hope you'll stay and enjoy my content! As I've stated, I'm hoping to document every day! ...as long as there's no secret projects going on...or if I don't knit one day... But I'm gonna try! AND there might be some content that's not knitting...and I'm not speaking of crocheting...but seeing as I'm a graduated goldsmith and I like to draw (when inspiration and motivation strike me), those crafts might pop up as well. I also got a sewing machine in the corner so I might do something with that in the future as well
So this is me, I'd be really happy if you'd leave me a comment, please excuse me having the security stuff on, but that's the only way for me to see if I got new comments and actually reply to them. See you all pretty soon!
...well, it's not that new since it's been up for quite some time by now...but this is the first blogpost!
I'm 24 years old...in two more days, cause january 3rd is my birthday! I live in Norway along with my boyfriend Bård (you international people may call him Bayaard...long story) and my cat Pepsi.
You may know me as KnitLizzy on deviantART...or maybe even LARvonCL
I decided to start this new blog to get just about everthing yarn related away from my other blog...since it's been drowning in that stuff lately and it is really supposed to be a videogame/goldsmith blog...cause that's why I made it and that's how it's designed...up until I lost my job cause of a stupid new owner and I started knitting 24/7 instead...which took over and made be dread posting anything related to other stuff. Well, enough about that. I got this new blog to unfold my knitting instead. And with the day by day progress, I'm hoping to wake my blogging skills up and active again on them both!
I was first thinking about doing knitting vlogs and post them on Youtube, but I'm afraid of hearing my own voice, and with speaking english since it's not my first language, I don't have the best pronounciation and I'm having trouble with verbs and words and what have you. This is easier and I can stay mute!
The reason why this blog is in english? Well, for one: I'm trying to reach out to a wider audience... Two: most of my crafting friends are international. I got this awesome crafting group on deviantART and we chat and have fun while we craft. Most of them are from America, but we also got some from Canada, England and Netherland. These are some of my dearest friends right now, and I'd hate to exclude them from this blog...expecially seeing how dreadfull Google Translate is...
But welcome! I hope you'll stay and enjoy my content! As I've stated, I'm hoping to document every day! ...as long as there's no secret projects going on...or if I don't knit one day... But I'm gonna try! AND there might be some content that's not knitting...and I'm not speaking of crocheting...but seeing as I'm a graduated goldsmith and I like to draw (when inspiration and motivation strike me), those crafts might pop up as well. I also got a sewing machine in the corner so I might do something with that in the future as well
So this is me, I'd be really happy if you'd leave me a comment, please excuse me having the security stuff on, but that's the only way for me to see if I got new comments and actually reply to them. See you all pretty soon!
Me this autumn wearing my handknitted "Fana" tunic
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