Inspiration, a garden that I would like to knit.

I knit a garden

If I where to knit a garden at the moment for inspiration it would be this one.
It's local and on my dog walk.
This house backs onto lake Mellan(Mellan-Fryken meaning middle lake)
And the front garden is almost as stunning as the back drop
(view of river)

I only have some green and pink so I need to add to my stash
so just like the great kaffe(to some)
I too can knit a garden.;-)

Roses that I have dried out.
My yarn stash need to be refilled as I seem to be awfully short!

Knitted Booby, Beany, Cosy

Big booby
Well big boob issues!
1st I sewed it inside out(Right side, wrong side facing?)
So my ribbing is inside out, it is a prototype so I'm not stressing.

2nd the nipple size! mmmmm slightly Jordan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_(Katie_Price
(Even the suntanned skin colour)

My skull is modelling it as a Beany here I think it works!
My garden oil burner makes for good stuffing. And now you can really see that my very excited about moss/seed stitch worked until, I had to lose the stitches and then I somehow ended back in the rib? very un-nipple like.

But it is enormous!. The buttons meant to be a fake nipple I even think this I have to work on?

How to knit a Jumper with no pattern 1975 style

1975
Maj Britt Engström(In Swedish)

I do remember this style of jumper Being a 70's child.
yesterdays charity shop discovery was just what I have been looking for.

my daughter like her mother is a free-form knitter, Crocheter, so I have been trying to explain how to make a jumpers, using different lengths scarf's
(Best description)

Of course she thought that I was taking nonsense........
But 25kr (£2) Bargain with pictures they make thing so easy to understand and they don't frighten beginners.

And this it how
Basic

Any size, you would just have to measure the teddy, baby, adult and pencil out a rough instruction and as long as it was knitted ,crocheted in a round about the size, it should work.

The Breast Knitted Tea Cosy!

Tea Cosy

Progress so far on my knit Cafe Tea Cosy pattern.
I have used a Bitch N Stitch, Beany Hat for size and similar measurements.
The my own twist!

This will be a Tea Cosy (but without the holes)
I want it to be multi functional
So it can be a Beany hat too or Just to keep your Tea Pot Hot

Rasmus

My poor pup, we are still being held hostage in our own home, the builders are still here and today it must be the hottest day yet!(nearly two weeks!)
(This summer in Stockholm)

Luckily for me my son watched him this morning so I could go out for a coffee
(Tack Karin), he has had to be competently bound to the hall today
(luckily its big)
As all the ground floor windows had to be opened to be painted.

To prevent him biting(kidding) barking at the painters.
My Coffee
I wanted to visit the Coffee shop mentioned in the famous Stieg Larsson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo
The girl with a dragon tattoo, one of the main characters
Michael Blomqvist visits in the book.
http://www.tomstardustdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/michael-blomqvist-vagner.jpg

It's real(it's expensive but fair enough)
The address being
Mellanqvist
Hornsgatan 78
Stockholm

Back to the knitting!.

The beige part is the nipple (imagination here please)
Seed stitch
Or as we say in the UK Moss Stitch!
This is then my part of the pattern. If it works ill publish it;-)

Below is a link I found that I missed completely when it happened, just another fantastic knit/craft idea I wanted to share.

Inspiration when you least expect it!

I sent an e mail to this magazine 2006

I had a reply printed on the dear Deborah page, I shared my end of year project with the magazine.
My 1st huge scale knit,
Well really my 1st knit attempt.
(1st at all, since I tried when I was 11 or so and promptly gave up)
A big 1st.
I won this book
Chic knits
By Maria Williams
I could not find any net info on her,the shop mentioned in book was the Stitch inn but I found nothing;-(

Really uninspiring is the cover you have to agree, fake mohair with more fake mohair, light blue with light Gray!, Oj oj.

Never inspired to read the book, even flick through it.
Reason why, other than the cover

I guess that the idea of patterns,
me with no clue, how, what, where, when......

And Of my opinion then, was that......
Why would you make somebody Else's!,
when you can make your own?.

I'm not of that opinion any more, pattern are organic they are their to be moulded.

It's no good!
I'm trying to sound nice;-) I hate the cover and would never have looked.

So I popped it away for a rainy day, then into a moving box for Sweden.

Years later
2009
I have read and been inspired so it just goes to show as they
"Say in the UK"
Never judge a book by it's cover..........

She uses all the novel yarns (As do I)
I aim to make texture,colour combinations that you would not usually think of.

Not those tacky fluffy scarf yarns that seem very popular used alone, it's criminal, unless your really really old and I mean really or really young tiny!.

She team good combinations of
fun yarn with really nice quality yarns.

That really work with her poncho's and shawls and I love the bag, of course I would make the bag but using chenille which can be frowned upon in some knitting circles, but I think here, it look's fantastic.

New Coffee knit Shop

Today's knit Event

New coffee shop on the block, well square! the place that I live is on a tram line and each stop has it's own little square.

The square with new coffee shop is Höglandtorget, very nice too;-)

Apologies for photo, not my usual standard but I'm getting even more of a

Tech head!

Taken from my phone camera and then down loaded to my PC!

New coffee shop

(my mission other than the learn to knit and crochet whist living in Stockholm)

Was to in fact visit as many coffee shops as possible, my art work can always travel.

So I'm not a slacker;-)
(Aimed at my UK friends)
I work and drink coffee!

Sat at my new local, I begin work with my Booby Teas Pot Cosy.

I was only sitting there for thirty minutes and I already

"Had one conversation about my knitting "

And

Two very elderly nod's of approval!

(kind of code, a nod or a wink, pleased that the young)

Young I use lightly (past the 25 to 35 tick box bracket!)
The nod /wink happiness that I'm continuing with the tradition.

And that I KIP

Knit in Public always. Mind you, three years I have been in Stockholm And as my Swedish friend know, not quite gotten around to learning Swedish.

Well I know the knitting terms when said slowly!

When given a compliment I answer in English this prolongs the silence and really I don't want to ask
"What did you say!"
That would be so rude (my lack of language)

I think that it's about time I actually signed up for some lessons.
(I Can't believe I typed that)

So if any thing, I would know exactly what the nice complement that I was told meant, by that friendly person whom appreciated that I kIP.

Oj oj oj, we will see! what my future brings.

Is your work ever finished?

Vogue Buttons

Free-from skirt and top that I finished a while ago...........or did I
This is one of my most recent( fantasy)out fit.

So it currently sits on a mannequin in my front room, a little strange I guess?
I really like to see, feel admire what I have made to make sure that it was the best I could do. It's good to admire what I have made(or criticise), if you cant be positive about your work!
who will......
I felt that the neck line needed something else, the thing with yarn/knit /crcohet with acrylic for sure it grows, stretches...........

It's natural, that's one of the thing I like about yarn. Even man made acrylic is Organic as it does grow.

Not the same with fabric, no give! unless lycra/spandex
(so Adam Sander and the Wedding Singer, Spandex!,I like that word)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Singer
What you have created is set, with yarn you can play;-)

So a new neck line, a little left over lemon cotton and I think that's definitely it!
Art in the garden
Yesterdays Art, looks like a Kaffe Fassett in the making;-(

Not so keen on his work, but I love the way he can knit what he sees.
He turn photography a photo, into a knited sample.

And of course the fact that he is a famous man who knits!
(not many.....)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffe_Fassett
Poor Rasmus, my work is never done another Tick(festing) thats three in two weeks! Oj oj oj
On his eye lid the horror!

He is all fluffy in this photo as he had just had a bath, no easy task with a Teen pup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick
They are the only bad thing about a Swedish summer every thing else FAB!

Apologies for a work in progress

My sizing is all wrong, Oj oj Oj

My new banner and format/layout, yes I thought it was time to up-date

Move with the blogging/blogger times!

I have already on my art blog(The term I, loosely)
But that was with IT support, AKA Rich husband.

I thought that I knew enough!, boy was I wrong.

I'm pleased with how far that I have come,

blogger for dummies literally.

But as you can see by my banner, not so good.
The Html for the text is missing and its just to late to find. So apologies for my work in progress;-)

So until tomorrow, good night.

Eye cord Flower

Easy Crochet
Teenage bag 2
Completed
Eye cord twist for a flower, sewn on then I attached the button for decoration.

The knitted strap I have attached on opposite sides so that it is easy to wear over the shoulder.

Currently writing the brochure/booklet that will go hand in hand with my Friday International knit Cafe that starts in September
(for my kids school mums and teens).

My knit aim is to have 10 easy projects that will run along side what ever personal project knit members are working on.

This so new member to the knit Cafe social scene. Get to learn the ropes and join in for some group participation;-).
Hopefully!

Mid Summer (knitting)

Took a break from my Teen bag.
Used the ends that I have left from that project to make Blythe Mabel the maxi dress.
I think that she looks a little bit liz Hurley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hurley
At around the time of her wedding to Arun Nayar, I remember seeing her in a bright Shari.;-)

This weekend is mid summer in Stockholm

A little about this holiday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer

In Stockholm this means that you get some extra time off work,likeness a Uk May day.
The Swedes celebrate with a maypole (my best description)
Frog croaks(people) for fertility.
And singing and drinking as with all swedish festivity's a good party spirit.

Our 1st year we where unaware of the celebration

Our second with my Brother who also live's in Stockholm.
(British mid summer, good times. Emma served the potatoes, herring!)

Our third international, my French friends family(BBQ,good time's)
So hopefully my fourth could actually be traditional;-)
And truely Swedish.

An Eye cord Flower, for Teen Bag 2

An Eye cord flower

Using the left over yarn and I think it was a pair of 3/4 double pointed needles to create the eye cord.
How too hint Below
http://www.mindseyeyarns.com/resources/how_to/i_cord.htm

Then I used crochet hook and worked a circle like chain at the back, to make the flat flower shape.
Completed the shape of Teen bag Two
Added the Scarf Strap!
The 8 stitches, knitted in plain
(Just knit to the desired length)

I attached using crochet to opposite sides of the bag, so best worn over the shoulder.

Crochet and Pearls Blythe

Instead of knits and pearls with this photo shoot, it was totally

Crochet and Pearls!

My Neo Blythe, Cappuccino chat
Looking extremely Manga!
She has a free-form crochet dress(I made)
Mimi Woo wig/ boots
Gina Garen shop socks

Holly & Pearls
Teenage Free-form bag

My knit cafe teen bag attempt number two, I have the strap finished, but today the out side work began on the rented house that we live in.
Facer's fixtures and window fittings

And so the Rasmus was not happy at all about all the work man in and around the house.
My placid puppy turned Omen trying to protect his family, hence not a lot done!

Knit a Poem

Knit a Poem
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/knit
I 1st saw this on the Outcast Blog, that I follow local Reading Artist's.

Today I Googled it to see what needs to be done and I got the link above.
Celebrate the Poetry Society's centenary, by helping to create the world's first giant knitted poem.

Update on Carmen's Birthday Shawl

Below

I'm currently three weeks late but getting their the small sized needles have taken a little long than anticipated on my easy (not so easy) quick knit shawl.

To speed things up I will add rows on an 8mm needle a pattern but randomly as I'm not on for row or stitch counts.

Teen Bag Two

Busy weekend and so not a lot of knitting.
I'm afraid my K,I,P only happened in the car on route to the Wedding that we attended in Uppsala.(My why blog had the wedding post)
http://why-why-now-why-not.blogspot.com/
So I'm not really sure that being seen in the passenger side of a car counts, but I think that it's ok.;-)

Here is the second attempt at the
Teenage Easy Bag
for the sept knit cafe. Just a rectangle folded in half. Chain stitch to join seems and then I have edged the top using the pop corn yarn.

Then I have cast on 8 stitches and this I just plan to just knit in plain(Knit stitch) the strap.

Still winding perfect yarn balls

Yep, over a week later and I'm still winding!
Today's job!.........Was to get this done.

I'm still winding.

I need to move the monument out of the centre of the front room that was starting to be used as a place to put things!

In my home any thing that serves as a surface manages to get
Rapidly stacked upon.

Admittedly it is mostly me
(The neat piles;-).
The joy of actually having surface space I find is that many projects can
flow at once.
(Uk=no space Sw=lots!)

By tomorrow!
Maybe an e bay manual winder might have to get added to my Xmas list this year as it defiantly takes a hole lot longer than I thought, I have to admit it is quiet relaxing just going round and round.

I miss knit lab (perfect winding space and table)

Teen crochet bag

Lemons and limes!
1st prototype

Here is the 1st of the trail bag pattern, that I am designing/making, for the teenage knit cafe that I'm planning for my kids school.

I will work on a few variations of the same bag just so I can show being individual with a pattern.

Again a really easy pattern as its for learning beginner crochet;-)

I like the buttons, leaving some strings hanging
give it
a funky but easy look.

Lemons and lime yarn I used two and then dropped one and picked up the other to get the stripes.
Again easy but effective.

K,I,P
(knit in public day, world wide this Saturday)
http://www.wwkipday.com/

It's nearly knit in public day and really
I don't think I need to share this day, as I KIP most days!

Today was the kids last day of term and that involved a
church service, no religion involved really.

Just place that a lot of people can gather and get the years Awards, Graduates graduate and the other ceremony's done, school year end.

And for me the perfect opportunity to start teen bag, no2
watch this space;-)

Pom-pom project elvis Robertson

My Pom before posting, chillin on the tram stop bench

Contact from elivs
my Pom-pom arrived to England yesterday!.

And seeing I actually posted it when we still had snow on the ground, I have no idea where my pom pom has been hiding.
(Swedish post or Uk? mmmm which one not so good?)

But any way, it got their!!!! In one piece and she was very pleased;-)
Happy that I have been part of such a great project and a project that's still in it's early days.

The winter is worth looking forward too, Pom pom wise!

elvis sent me the link below to have a look at some one else's post about the project, the more we post, I guess the more news will be spread............

Then it will be Pom-poms galore.

http://tracy-boboho.blogspot.com/

elivis Robertson's project
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1021804@N23