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News Flash: Princess Lea reveals her secret hobby: Jazz-ballet

loba — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:01:07 +0000

I spotted this piece of yarn bombing in Copenhagen. It is really cold….so I guess princess Lea needed to warm up her legs.

Cool people who made this!

Copenhagen: Mozarts Plads…

Friends with a passion for knitting

loba — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:22:28 +0000

Knitting is nice in solitude, but even nicer with friends. The only “drawback” is that more ideas are developed – as if I do not have plenty of half done projects.

Furthermore it suddenly becomes natural to knit in nice cafes (Royal Copenhagen), hours can be spend in nice knitting shops (Betty, Sommerfuglen, Uldstedet) and knitting in public is the common thing to do.

Knitting in public day

loba — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:30:06 +0000

I think knitting in public da y is a fantastic concept. I often knit in public – yes I am officially a knitter and not ashamed of it…

My friends and I wanted to be part of the bigger happening, but meet up at the wrong venue. The venue where my friends and I had our knit in public day was Dansk Design Centre. Very nice tea and cake, and the food smelled very nice. Lovely day, lovely people and hopefully more people got inspired to knit. Next year I will be back knitting in public!

My flirt with mohair

loba — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:00:47 +0000

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.