Wonderful wool

It is summer all of a sudden! 

Thank you for your comments on the wrapper. As some of you guessed, it had 256 stitches, but if you plan to make yourself a one, take a moment to make a gauge swatch and then measure around your shoulders to get the exact stitch count for yourself. 200 grams of sock yarn, needle size 2,5mm-2,75mm or even bigger, depending how soft you want the wrapper to be. If you make it very loose, I think it will lose some of the bounce and won't hug you nicely after much use. Cast on 256 stitches and then do just k4p4 rib until you have just enough yarn to bind off and there you have it. There really is not much to it, but simple things can be so clever and beautiful at times.

Every now and then I get an urge to make a person and here is my newest. 

I never plan very much ahead, I sort of let come what comes out of my subconscious.

At first I was not sure what to think about the skin, but now when I look at the face, I can see how much it resembles collage images and I like it a lot. It has this roughness to it, that seems to suit me right now. I think he wants a companion.

And I have to think how to present him, so I need to work on him some more.

Have a good and warm weekend, possibly with wool, because it is so wonderful in so many ways,

Lene

She is back and a new knit

The lake has returned. Once again there is the lullaby of waves at nights ... and in the mornings, before I get up I can listen for a while for the sound to hear what kind of a day is ahead of me. As a bonus feature the sounds of the birds echo loudly from the surface because the forest is naked and does not soften the noises. Not to talk about the light... The magic of spring in the arctic.

To be able to experience all this beauty wipes away the memory of all the dark and cold winter months.

Even though it seems quite bare and cold in the pictures, if you bend down close to the ground, there are spots of bright and new and fresh greens. (We have cleaned the summer kitchen and have already used it a couple of times.)

But now I have to show you my new favorite knit...

To be honest, it is not that new anymore, I knitted it few months ago. This is not my idea, as I saw this in my LYS. I quickly made a mental note of k4/p4 rib and bought two skeins of Sandnes Garn Mini Palett sock yarn (I am not quite sure of the yarn any more, but I believe it was this), 200 grams altogether and used it all to make this wrapper.

I love it, it must be the best thing I have made myself for a long time. You can pull it down so that it covers just your shoulders, or further up, and then it hugs your neck. In wintertime it fits beautifully inside a coat and while puttering around the house when you feel cold, you can even pull if further down to keep it around your waist - almost like a mini skirt.

It is the best thing ever, but ... the drawback was that it was quite a boring thing to do, 200 grams of sock yarn is a lot to knit. Then again, boring is good at times, when in need of something easy and portable - this is the excuse I am using as I am thinking that I need a new one, or maybe even two.

Wool with you,

Lene