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Alt for mange UFO’er!

På trods af en august måned, hvor jeg faktisk i høj grad fokuserede på at afslutte UFO’er (Ufærdige Objekter), ser det ud til at der bare er kommet endnu flere til.
Jeg ved ikke lige hvordan det går til ??..

Men det er sådan landet ligger, og derfor vil jeg gerne bede jer derude om hjælp til at gøre UFO-bunken lidt mindre (og til at afstive min rygrad).
I min livepodcast “Fibre i Farver”, der sendes ovre på YouTube hver tirsdag kl 11, vil jeg næste gang præsentere jer for 4 af mine (mange) ufærdige strikkeprojekter og bede jer om at vælge hvilken af de 4 jeg skal fokusere på – og færdiggøre – først.
Lad mig hurtigt sige, at jeg ikke kan arbejde på kun 1 projekt ad gangen. Jeg har ting i gang til butikken og også noget, der bare skal arbejdes på nu for at de ikke også bliver til UFO’er .. Men udover det bliver jeg altså nødt til at give tid og opmærksomhed til en af de hengemte sager. Ellers kommer jeg jo aldrig i mål med dem ..

De 4 projekter kommer her:

Cormo-sweater
Guapo-cardi
Kvartalskjole
Stolehynde

Cormo-sweateren er eget design, strikket i håndspundet cormo-garn. Jeg mangler halvandet ærme.
Guapo-cardi er en fair-isle cardigan til Thomas. Eget design, og her mangler jeg også ca. halvandet ærme.
Kvartals-kjolen (eller temperaturkjolen) mangler også blot ærmer.
Stolehynden mangler montering, kanter – og en makker .. Dette er den første ud af to.

Så se med på tirsdag kl 11, når jeg sender Fibre i Farver #124 og hjælp mig til at få landet en af disse UFO’er ..
Man kan, hvis man er med live, give sit besyv med i live-chatten, eller man kan skrive i kommentarsporet under videoen hvis man ser med senere.

Der er jo det ved det, at der hele tiden dukker nye sager op, der skal strikkes, hækles, spindes, væves – så der skal gøres plads i mit hoved til alt det! Det vil i hvert fald være en lettelse at få færdiggjort noget af det “gamle”, så på forhånd TAK for support og spark i r…. 😉

I øvrigt!
Nu på søndag, d. 5/11, er Thomas og jeg at finde med en stand til FiberFolk i Aalborg. Vi vil rigtig gerne hilse på jer, så kom endelig og sig hej! 🙂
Dagen efter, om mandagen, holder vi fri, og butikken er lukket.

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Finally something finished..

My new dress (or tunic) in fair isle style stranded knitting is called “Mirabel”. It has been underways for a little more than a year, but last week I finally got it done.
I like how it turned out. What do you think?:

I have drawn the different patterns myself and it was a joy knitting the garment and watch how it came along. There was no plan for the colour placement – that part I just made up as I went.

Now I have hauled out another unfinished object from the depths of a knitting basket. Also a fair isle garment, a sweater. Very traditional. This one I knit with wool yarn that I have dyed with plants and mushrooms. It wont turn out nearly as beautiful as the dress, but it will be a warm and comfy sweater for next winter.
I’ll show it when it’s done. I’m good into the second sleeve.

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Work in progress.

This project has been with me for ages. About 3 years, to be more precise.. I recall that it started out as a sample. I wanted to try out a new shape in a modular knitting technique, a letter T-shape.

At the same time, the sample served as a test-knit of my handspun yarn out of Silk Hankies.
Soon I was hooked on this T-shape and I sketched out a garment with short sleeves and began spinning and knitting.
It went well for some time. Then other projects and fabulous ideas came along and had to be delt with. I put my “T-shirt” aside and kind of forgot about it for a very, very long time..

But recently I digged it out, seriously determined to finish it now! There was (is) still some spinning to be done, and a few design issues to be taken care of. I try to keep good notes as I knit along so that there’s a chance that I can write some kind of pattern later on.. With projects like this, that just seems to take shape as you go and is full of surprices, it’s often very difficult to produce a written pattern. In my opinion it’s much more simple to knit modular projects from a drawing/sketch, with som key-numbers and technique-explanations added to it, of course.
Let’s see if I’ll be able to whip up a proper written pattern for this baby!

This morning I just completed the first shoulder.

The lower body, back and front, is almost all done, so now only shoulders and neck shaping remain. Borders too, of course.
I’m very pleased with how it turns out so far. The silk Hankies-yarn is nice to work with, and it looks great in simple garter stitch. I’m pretty sure the T-shirt is going to fit (me) nicely and that it will look good with my long brown summerskirt. Can’t wait to get it finished now! I’m off to do some spinning and knitting..