Stickarboden, The Office!

I proudly present my, not yet but soon finished, house project. I'm moving my office into this place in a couple of weeks. The room next doors is aimed for meetings, knitting courses or parties. It can also be used as a guest house.

At the centre of the floor and the corners I have painted a pattern from the book "Schabloner med traditioner" by Lena Nessle. I have modified the pattern to fit my purpose and made my own matching corner composition. It has been tested once before in my daughter's room and I thought it would be a good idea to use the same pattern again. I'm very happy with the result.

Welcome!

New pattern

Last shawl of my design concept. Now there's one for every skill level. This lovely yarn is one of my favourites, Grignasco 2/28 nm MerinoSilk. That's really a quality yarn and the colour is just fantastic something in between plum and purple.

70's baby dress, småflickornas lilla fina

I started knitting lace before I knew I was knitting lace. This cute dress was made for my daughter 2005. She wore it at a medeival wedding 2006 (was it?). Lovely pattern really, from "Stora boken om handarbete" published by ICA förlag in the 70's something. I think there was a copy of it in almost every home. Even mine, but I wonder why, 'cause nobody knitted in my house until I got 6 years and got hooked. I wonder how many projects I started whithout finishing. But there was nothing wrong with my ideas, they were... so many!

Queen Susan Shawl

I have just about started knitting the Queen ring Susan Shawl. The Ravelry Heirloom project which has such a fascinating history. I am very sorry I missed the opportunity to participate. Though, I am though not sure I want to make another big square shawl at the moment which will take a year something ( done it...). Maybe I will change the yarn, even if dull grey was a long time since I had on my pins :-). It is not dull at all. It is actually a very nice contrast to my most recent projects. Don't miss this pattern, it's all free!



I am testing how to change the flowers the under the bows of small flowers.


Can you see how they resemble each other? Painting on the shoe, and this antique pattern. The same Heirloom all over :-).

There goes the neighbourhood

Not knitting this time, but I think they fit here. Anything traditional or stylish or whatever I like can be posted here. Last week, when skiing in Sälen (Dalarna) I foud these cute high heeled clogs. They are designed by a woman who is from Dalarna (Åsa Westlund). They are hand painted in Dalarna too. Lovely n'est ce pas? Heirloom shoes! Wooden clogs are very traditional in Sweden, certainly if you were born in the 70's (lol!).

Three weeks lace

This is the second shawl of my design concept. It has been hibernating some time while knitting the "Four weeks lace shawl". It is based on the patterns I designed myself for my knitting class this winter, but it also has the traditional Shetland frame. Do you think the choice of colour is peculiar? I knitted a bespoke shawl to match my winter jacket in this colour combination. I don't think I would have come up with such a combination myself , but actually it is very pretty. Happy, happy orange! 45g of 2/28nm Zegna Baruffa Cashwool bought from Colourmart. This 100% merino is very soft, it is a bit thinner than I expected but it is of course also about density, not just length per kg :-). Tonight it shall be blocked.

Four weeks lace

I have designed a series of shawls in 2/28nm lace yarn. This is the knitted lace version. I have called it four weeks lace because if you are working full time and have a family it could still be knitted in about four weeks without too much effort (if you are an experienced knitter). The appearance is very lacy. By the way, I have changed the name of the colour from shocking pink into raspberry :-). 60g of Grignasco MerinoSilk, colour 188. Light as a feather! This is a pattern I can sell, it is well documented and has a logic design meaning you don't have to make many adjustments and do much thinking on your own. Perfect first knitted lace, when you want to try a more difficult pattern (patterned every row) but don't want to spend a whole year on a single project.The pattern repeats are short which does not make it as advanced as its appearance.