Sweet Corn Shawl

The orange Ecdho Flower Shawl is finally finished! It is 100% merino from Colourmart and despite the 2/28nm lace weight I used 4.0mm needles to get an openwork lace to show off both the pattern and the nupps. 9-stitch nupps is a killer... but necessary in dyed yarns, else they won't be visible. The pattern is not difficult but the special stitches take time to knit. The pattern is though easy to follow and the repeats quickly stick. Lovely pattern, but I think it needs tassels,and I am gonna make many of them this time. Almost 900m yarn spent excluding the tassels.

New garden and Junior Orangeri

In the beginning there was nothing. But now I have a new garden! Not very structured, but I am very happy with it for being the first summer.

The conversation piece of the area is of course the Junior Orangeri.

It was bought from Classicum (Janssen in Belgium produces them). Do I recommend it...? No! ...and Yes! It is expensive but still mid-priced, it is beautiful, you can sit maybe 6 persons in there without problems. But, the instruction was as bad as it can be and the roof decoration is in plastic!!! In swedish: Nockdekorationen till Junior Orangeri från Classicum är gjort av plast vilket är helt oacceptabelt tycker jag för ett såpass dyrt växthus. Instruktionen är så dålig som det bara kan bli. Delar saknades i leveransen. Skuggväven kan inte eftermonteras utan skulle ha byggts in under montage men den alltför kortfattade instruktionen till skuggvävsmontage var på näst sista uppslaget (hur tänkte de där egentligen!?) och Classicums respons på kommentarer har inte levt upp till förväntningarna på ett växthus av den här typen. Deras svar var att det är bara att fila upp ett spår så kan man mata in gardinkrokarna där ifrån. Hallå, det är åtta ställen det måste göras på och jag tänker sannerligen inte stå på en stege inne i mitt glasade växthus med verktyg och fila. Nej, skuggväven fick gå i retur tillsammans med de automatiska lucköppnarna som inte kunde monteras p g a vindstängerna. Totalt tog montaget faktiskt en hel vecka och inte tre dagar. Det beror främst på att vi fick montera och demontera flera gånger eftersom instruktionen inte innehåller info om att skruvar skall stickas in i profilerna här och där för att användas i senare skeden. T ex de tre skruvarna man skall trä in i syllen för att montera dörrens nedre skena... Dörren sätter man in sist men de skruvarna skall in först... Tur att man bor med en stark man! Orangeri... Orange... makes me recall that next project to be displayed will be an Echo Flower Shawl in orange. 10 rows and blocking left to do.

Orange family knitting

I can tell U there's an urge for knitting and colour these days! Everybody in my family is knitting orange! :-)

Shocking pink Lingonberry ;Leaf Triangle.

Shocking pink Lingonberry ;Leaf Triangle.

I got some help photographing this shawl after these pictures were taken. My partner took out a hammer and some nails and... Yes he literally nailed it! just put a nail through the lace and rrrrrriiipppp. Two months of knitting... And he was only being nice and helpful as always. I had to take a moment on my own. Next time I'll do the scenography myself. And -Yes! I managed to fix it, but it'll never be whole again :-)

Felted mittens

I got more flowers on my Burrageara Nelly Isler orchid. Less colourful items are these knitted felted mittens I made a couple of months ago. They were so ugly befor they passed the washing machine that I had problems forgiving them. After felting I had to crochet a little edging to the rim to compensate for the ugly pre-wash stage. Now they a very cute and they are forgiven.

At Esters café I bought this Firttilaria uva-vulpis (uva-vulpis seems to be a grape that tastes like fox...). It sits on my windowsill with some of my precious seedlings waiting for warmer days.

The mitten and the kitten

I seem to have an urge for colors these days.

This is another pair of Norwegian Torpavotter "my way". Purple and orange with tassels.

Springtime Lingonberry Leaf Shawl

I'm longing for the garden to wake up from winter hibernation! I have a huge project in front of me to start arranging a new garden because I left my old one last year. Waiting for the flowers I needed a new project, something fun in a crazy flowery color to knit and I decided to have another go with my Lingonberry Leaf shawl. My Knit Pro Rose haven't been kind to me and this yarn, but still I decided to keep going to test my patience. 15/4 it was finally time for the beautiful outer edging and 22/4 I started on the inner edging. I must say the outer edging is fun to knit! Elaborate but easy to knit in the TV sofa.

Link to the pattern

Over two months ago the Cranes arrived. I think they're on eggs somewhere because only the male bird takes the daily stroll through the garden nowadays.