I am learning how to use our sewing machine by making project bags. You can never have to many of these ...
I knitted these socks a couple of months ago. I used one striped yarn and one in solid colour (red). This is because sometimes when I knit man sized socks if run out of yarn before I am finished. I have started weighing the sock yarn that I have bought and found that it is not uncommon that they contain less than the stated 100 grams. So to avoid having to buy extra yarn I sometimes use two colours instead. it is also a great way to use leftovers from other sock projects.
I finally finished these socks! Man´s size. Yarn used is 105 grams of Drops Fabel, and needles 2,50 mm.
I used the Old Norwegian Cast-On ("dubbel-korsuppläggning" in Swedish) and a K1, P1 ribbing. After that I changed to a Seeded Rib (4 stitches repeat) for the all-over pattern.
The heel-flap stitches are a "Reversed Slip 1, Knit 1" pattern.
Finally a toe with decreases at the end of each of the four needles. In Swedish it is called "Strålintagning". I have never tried this before, but it is said to give a good toe both with thin and thick yarn.
I like the retro-feel of these socks.
I just finished this hat in twined knitting. The yarn is some of my first hand-spun, spun years ago (2011). The red yarn is 50/50 Spelsau (grey) from Norway and Leicester (white). The fleece was grey and white when I spun it and I later dyed the yarn red. The yellow yarn was spun by mixing some dyed fleece that I was given, origin unknown. 210 stitches on needles 2,50 mm.
These are twined knitted mittens using the simplest way of patterning: two colours making stripes, and making checkers by being reversed every second row.
The main part of the mitten is striped. I used checkers on the cuff ...
and on the increases for the thumb. The increases are made on both side of the thumb gore every second row.
The cast-on is one that I have learned from Karin Kahnlund. I repeated the principle for the cast-on effect just before I started the increases for the thumb - to mark the end of the cuff.
The yarn used is spun at Wålstedts. The fleece used is from the breed Värmlandsfår - natural colours, except for the yellow that I dyed.
These holes just weren't worth mending, they were to big and the yarn was of a really bad quality (don't buy yarn without information about what kind of fibres it is made of).
But since I have been told not to waste yarn I did as my mother often did.
I cut off the part with the useless yarn and frogged the remaining material back until I reached the point where I wanted to start the new foot.
I picked up stitches and used a yarn of better quality for the foot.
I also checked with myproject book regarding needle size, amount of stitches and other particulars regarding the sock.
After some knitting I had a pair of socks almost as good as new.
