Barcelona is worth a visit for many reasons: Sonar festival, fantastic food & architecture, nice people and a lovely city, but I have to add one more reason and that is: a very nice knitting shop. The name of the shop says it all: ALL YOU KNIT IS LOVE.
I love that shop: they have very different yarns; I was inspirited to do some more knitting when I left the shop, and the owners were very helpful and nice. I am going back for sure, and if you are in Barcelona I can only recommend that you visit the shop as well
My dear friend and I were in Barcelona because of the Sonar festival. The Sonar festival was fantastic, the food in Barcelona was VERY NICE and the knitting in the Park Güell was fabulous – going back for sure … A bit strange knitting with wool and eating ice cream simultaneously, but I can only recommend it.
I have now bought my second novel where the sales argument for me was that knitting is playing a role in the narrative. Never heard of the author and the setting seems quite common, but knitting is playing a part so I will start to read it shortly.
The first novel where knitting played a part in the narrative that I read was The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. It is quite entertaining, but hardly the book of the year. Still worth reading if one is into knitting.
Ready to start reading the novel Divas Don’t knit by Gil McNeil shortly.
This sweater is knitted by left over yarn and a wish to combine different techniques. The sweater is knitted in two pieces.
Therefore no matter how little left over yarn a project provide it can in the end contribute to a whole sweater.
I always buy a little extra when starting projects…
For some reason mohair is something I have always admired at a distance. I have knitted a cardigan once in white mohair, but my memory mostly focus on how I was covered in white left over yarn after knitting… but strolling through Copenhagen I visited Wilfert’s and came across this fabulous Super Kid Mohair produced by ggh GmbH, colour 077.
I was tempted by the prospect of a new sweater, I was just not sure of the design yet. I was convinced through that with this yarn, inspiration would come and I was willing to wait even though that could be years…2 days was all it took before I was knitting away.
First I decided on the stitch Diagonal knot – knitted on a circular needle- number of stitches multipliable with 3.
The stitch:
Row 1: knit
Row 2: knit 3 stitches together (leave stitches on needle) yarn over and than purl back through the stitches again (now you slip stitches from needle), repeat until no stitches are left
Row 3: knit
Row 4: knit 1, knit 1, knit 3 stitches together (leave stitches on needle) yarn over and than purl back through the stitches again (now you slip stitches from needle), repeat until no stitches are left
Row 5: knit
Row 6: knit 1, knit 3 stitches together (leave stitches on needle) yarn over and than purl back through the stitches again (now you slip stitches from needle), repeat until no stitches are left
My sweater is knitted from the top down – increasing only in two places so there would be a line over the chest and the back – see next picture for details.
When I picture knitted garment it is mostly related to winter or maybe a chilled summer night. But when I saw this silver yarn, in a local yarn shop, I was ready to knit something for a hot summer’s day. The top is very inspired by a nice pattern I saw at Knitty.com – I just loved the top part of the pattern, but the temptation to make it my own was to big so I therefore added one of my favourite pattern: lazy ribbing.
