Happy Birthday, Miss Pollymoggle.

I've finished the Annis shawlette, a little extra birthday present for my daughter.  I used Miyuki beads 6.0 instead of nupps. I think I will knit this again but change the ugly ssks and k2togs for short rows, in Cat Bordhi's invisible W&Ts. 

 

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Annis

Step 1: 
Stalk the web and hunt for one of these:

Step 2

Turn it into this:

Step 3

Just start knitting

And eventually it will turn into this.

See how easy... only 3 steps to go. What are you waiting for?  GO!

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Beautiful Haruni.

All done and pretty.  So fun to knit, the pattern is very well written, after every right side row there's a stitch count, which I did most of the time.  That felt 'safe' knitting the next rows.  The yarn.... oh the yarn, I used Wolmeise Twin and it's heaven.  Little suspence because I had only one skein in this colour and the rows kept growing with every row eating more yarn.  But it's all good, I made it, in fact there's a whopping 9 grams left.

 Model: Young Miss Pollymoggle.

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Fresh on the needles.

Haruni by Emily Ross is a free Ravelry download.  I'm knitting it with Wollmeise Twin in a wonderful Haloweenpumpkinorange-ish colour. The pattern is easy to follow, but not completely mindless.  I see a lot of knitters do the body in plain stockinette, which is also very pretty, but too boring to do for my taste.

Oh, and I've finished the Centrique.  I did the larger size, but it's still a 'shawlette'. The model is young Miss. PollyMoggle, my beautiful daughter. :-)

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The power of the blocking wires.

This Centrique was knitted with Semi-Precious by Babylonglegs which is the most soft yarn I ever had in my hands, and believe me, over the years I've touched a LOT of different kind of yarn. 

Unblocked, this shawlette looks like a little pile of sadness.

Coming alive on the blocking wires:

And... TADAAAAAAAh, blocked! 

See how precious?  I'm happy!

Centrique

I'm knitting this Centrique shawl for the second time.  It's an easy 'sit down and have a cuppa or watch TV'-pattern, by Carol Feller.  I love brainless patterns.

This time I'm using HolstGarn Supersoft.  The 'supersoft' part is a joke, but I'm counting on the 'soak-block-and wait' part to turn the joke into a ahhhhsoft-smile.  It's a lovely green colourway called Calypso.

Yarn Porn.

What a great way to start a brandnew blog... with the arrival of a skein of Wollmeise 100% Merino -with the help of a lovely Ravelrina- in a wonderful orange colourway named Kürbis.