Bodie and Doyle pillows

I've finished a scrap yarn project today. A few weeks ago I thought Well, this can't be done, and wanted to move on, and of course the idea got stuck in my head. *g* So, in the end, of course I had to try.


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*scratches head*

I am not terribly convinced of it, they are not as accurate as I would have liked them to be, both because of the limitations of putting something in knitting and because I just didn't get them quite right. Also, the heads are of course not the same size, which I realized way too late.



The scrap yarn I used as background for the CI5 is a bit too dark, alas.


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- Sorry, I again had to photograph the charts as my scanner is not big enough, and had had them folded in the middle while knitting. And I was too lazy to draw nine million crosses so I just indicated the outlines of the black parts. *g* -

Chart for the "CI5" see CI5 socks post.

Knitted with 3 mm needles over 96 stitches from the top down. Started and finished with 1k, 1p until there was enough of a border for the buttons, button holes are in the top one.

Gloves

Last night I finished knitting the gloves:



I wanted to make the tips all black initially, but then didn't like how it looked and it seemed to make my short fingers even shorter. So, I went with the irregular stripes on some fingers. Now I really only have a few threads of the alpaka yarn left. Although maybe I could put some stripes into socks... ;-)

Scarf with reversible cables

I've finished a short scarf last night - actually, it's a tiny bit long to be short, but I refuse to undo anything. ;-) I'm still using up the rest of the alpaka yarn, and that wasn't enough for a normal length scarf, so I went with the variety with the hole to pull one end through to fasten it. I've saved myself a little rest of it and am making bicoloured gloves to go with it and the hat at the moment.



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In case you want to make one, too:



I = knit
- = purl
diagonal line top right to bottom left = place first 4 stitches on additional needle in front of work, knit next 4 stitches, knit the stitches from additional needle
diagonal line bottom right to top left = place first 4 stitches on additional needle behind work, knit next 4 stitches, knit the stitches from additional needle

- stitch numbers for 4 mm needles (= according to Ravelry US size 6) -

Cast on 50 stitches.
Pattern: 2 stitches in garter stitch, cable pattern, 20 stitches garter stitch, cable pattern mirror inverted, 2 stitches garter stitch.
Knit until you have enough length to wrap it around your neck and have one end the length you want it to hang down, then knit pattern to the middle of the scarf and use a second ball of yarn to knit the rest. Knit those two halves seperately for 11 rows (or, if you use a thinner or thicker yarn, until you have a slit long enough to comfortably pull the other end through), then knit with one ball over the whole width again and knit on until the second end has the same length as the other when you pull it through the slit.

Rafn hat

I used some of the rest of the alpaka yarn to knit the hat "Rafn" from Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns For Knitting which alas made me feel rather stupid, because it took me forever to figure out that I was supposed to flip up the part with the cable pattern so the whole side of the hat is a double layer of knitted material, and not turn the whole thing inside out and have an extremely long mysterious object. :-D (I partially blame the German translation just so I don't feel quite so stupid ;-) )



Having finally understood how it is supposed to be, I decided I did not like the way the decreases on top of the hat were done, and undid that part and improvised my own version:



I'm now working on a short scarf with the rest of the yarn.

New sweater

I've finished the big knitting project:



It's "Hekla" from Elsbeth Lavold's The Second Viking Knits Collection which a friend gave me, with slight variations - I improvised a bit with the cut, hence the sleeves got a bit ... poofy *sigh*, put ring things into the cables on the arms and didn't make the high collar.



I made it from a yarn I gave to myself for my birthday, Schachenmayr Nomotta Alpaka Fashion (the original colour is kind of in the middle of what my camera turned it into in the first and in the second picture), it was a bit too expensive for an everyday purchase. It was wonderful to work with. :-) I had to buy more recently and was lucky to get a dye lot that looked practically exactly like the original one. Now I still have a bit left over, maybe I'll make myself a hat from it...

CI5 socks

In spring, on an impulse I bought myself a box set with all seasons of The Professionals. It then stood unwatched in the shelf for quite a while while I was annoyed with myself for spontaneously spending money on something I didn't even really know I would like (I had watched one single episode maybe 20 years ago). Then, I needed something to entertain me during the preparations and clearing up of the appartment for the painting, and dug them out - and found that I liked the series. Very very much. *g*

So, me being me, of course I tried to knit something related to the series. *g*






Click to enlarge. And please ignore that my carpet needs vacuuming. ;-)

I stitched the letters and number on again, because I dislike to have threads spanning inside my socks. I then had to steam iron them though, because the broad stripes of stitched stitches wouldn't lie flat, so maybe knitting them in directly might be better actually.

I used a standard sock pattern, 66 stitches (the pattern takes up 29) for very small feet (German size 36), needle size 2 1/2, using Rödel Sport- und Strumpfwolle Classik yarn. It probably looks better on someone with bigger feet who can make the socks wider and has then more space on the sides of the pattern.

Doodle earrings

This is what I did this afternoon :-) :


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They're all based on doodles I drew while listening.