Spring Fling

After a long time, a finished knitting project! I used some sort of cotton, bought at the Unitas factory shop in Zagreb. There was no name or yardage on the label, but I bought 6 skeins (600 g) and for this project I used about two skeins (actuall, more like one and a half). 4 mm needles and almost a month later here it is:


Pattern: Spring fling from Knitty
Yarn: some sort of myster Unitas cotton
Needles: 3.75 mm and 4 mm
Time it took: A month of on and off knitting

I seem to have forgotten about my blog ;-)

Almost two months without a post. And to my great shame, or maybe excuse, there was nothing to blog about. I've done absolutely nothing creative these past months. Well, almost nothing. I did manage to knit a simple cell phone cozy with some mystery cotton yarn. I plan to use the yarn to make myself a summer t-shirt or a cardi. I'm still deciding on the pattern, but judging by my laziness lately, I'll get around to knitting sometime in October ;-)

This picture is also a great example of the crappiness that is my camera. The towel is supposed to be white, and the cozy is slightly bluer than pictured.

I'm waving at fat!

Quick and cute project from the fourth season of Doctor Who - it's the Adipose baby! Pattern by mazzmatazz, it took me about five hours altogether. I only used up half a ball of white Merino Mix (Schoeller+Stahl) I had in my stash. This is by far the cutest thing I've ever knit.

Britannia Finished

My Britannia is finished. I can't really say I'm happy with it, I clearly made a poor yarn sub for this. The pattern calls for a bamboo yarn, and I used wool/acrylics. I made this in size XS,and I guess the fit is OK, but the length could be longer.
I also did a crappy job sewing up the seams, and somehow managed to pick up only 75 stitches for the collar, instead of the 123 the pattern calls for. Hence the weird looking, hardly existent collar.


Pattern: Britannia by Berroco
Yarn: Ispe Padova Duetto, 6 skeins
Needles: 3 mm and 4 mm
Time it took: a month?

Britannia in progress

Whoa, I've been neglecting the blog! But not the knitting!
I started working on Britannia by Berroco couple of weeks ago. I'm using Ispe Padova wool/acrylics blend. It's going well so far, really easy cause it's mostly stockinette. But it rolls, so I guess I'll have to block it before I sew the seams.
I'm done with the front and back, now all that's left are the sleeves and picking up stitches for the collar. I'm kind of dreading this step, picking up stitches is truly a pain in the ass.
Anyway, a progress shot of what I have so far: