I've just completed a cashmere cowl I started on June 2010. This job was so boring that every now and then I just buried it under tons of yarn and forgot about it. But today it's done. The color is pretty and the yarn soft and warm. But definitely too thin to knit in stockinette stitch. As a reminder for all lazy knitters like me: avoid complex works with a US 4 needle. Too long to make... Anyway do you like it?
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I'm knitting a One Skein Wonder but I've decided to add 3/4 sleeves. It's the first time I knit sleeves so I really don't know ho to proceed to make them fitted and nice. I found a pattern here which seems ok for circular needles, a double decrease every 6 rows.
What you think, it will be enough? Help! Help!
Thanks to Veruska found this adorable sweater for traumatized chicks, isn't it cute? I want to make a dozen of those!
Thanks so much, to all the nice people that wrote to me these days saying that they are sorry for the closing of this blog. You are so sweet!
All this support gave me the strenght to try again, I'll make an effort and go on posting sometimes, now I know someone cares :))
So here a pic of the collar I've just finished, the pattern is the "wham bam thank you lamb! neckwarmer" by Insaknitty 
I'm pretty proud because today I've published online the first video knitting lessons in Italian!
You can watch the videos here on LeiWeb.
Italian readers can also find free patterns and ideas on the website Knitting Blog, you are all invited and everyone is welcome!
In this Knitty.com Fall issue I fell in love with the Morgan hat. I find this pattern extremely attractive, even in Tangy. I tested the gauge of a few yarns I have here and I think that Noro Kureyon should fit. So I started it yesterday.
The technique used id the Double circular needles, a bit tricky at the beginning but not too annoying after a few rows. Let's see how it goes on.
Do someone of you have any suggestions on what to use for the brim? The explications are not too clear to me, and I0m not sure in Milan, Italy I will be able to find a "brim" store. What could I use instead of cardboard?
I've finally the right yarn for my own Foliage Hat. I love this pattern, I've tried it last winter but my yarn was too this and I had to give up.
At the last yarn sawp in milan, though, I got a pretty yellow ball, wich had the same gauge than the Malabrigo used for the foliage pattern, ad ta-dah! Here it is. Precious, fast and very pretty!
It only took me one day to make, and I'm very happy with the result!
Pics taken by my sister
While working as hell I noticed this absolutely adorable knitted hat from Hermès Fall/Winter 2008-2009 catwalks. Looks easy to do and at the same time interesting and original. What you think? I will definitely try to make it. Any suggestions on the increase pattern to use as a base for the crown?
Thanks to Anneli we now have the pattern!!
I finaly have some time to post some pics of my Garter Stitch Loop-Through Scarf by Marci Richardson, that i made from the book "101 designers One Skein Wonders".
I changed the pattern a little, switching from the original garter stitch to a stockinette st (that I prefer). It's a lovely, easy and really rewarding pattern. Was a pleasure to knit.
My sister fell in love with it so I gave it to her and she's always using it, I'm very happy about it :-D
Today I've been to a knitting happening here in Milan, a "Knitting with guys" meeting held in the Modern art museum cafe at La Triennale. I went there with a friend blogger, Aelred, who wanted to learn the magic art of knits and purls.
The meeting was organized by Grignasco Knit and the knitting stylist Giuliano Marelli, every participant had a wool skein a pattern and a pair of lovely knitting needles.
My friend had the time to familiarize a bit with casting on, knitting and even a bit of purl. Marelli helped him nicely, showed him three ways of casting on, and followed his progresses. Very very sweet. Many old ladies were really amiable too and curious about a young guy interested in knitting. The atmosphere was cheerful and we had a good time.
Nice evening! Now I'll have to check on Aelred to see if he remembers something and if he will practice a bit the knitting lessons ;-)
This week end I've been to a two-days party with some other Italian bloggers of the Blogo.it network. We had a lot of fun playing in the pool, dancing and chatting, but I didn't forget my knitting schedule! ;-)
I've also finished the second half of the Brea Bag, which is - with y own surprise - smaler that the first half! DOH! Anyway I don't care, I'm knitting the middle section and hopfully next week edn it will be over :-)
I've spent the week end knitting and I'm pretty proud of the results. Tonight watching Tv I've finished the other half of the Brea Bag and on Sunday I've finally begun the first scarf for the Homeless in Vik's initiative.
To speed up the scarf making, before the weather becomes too hot to touch the wool, I've opted for a vertical striped scarf, all worked in Garter Stitch. The texture so far is very soft and funny. I'll post a pic tomorrow (the image here is from Google Images ;-).
Besides that, the pima poncho is slowly progressing as well and I intend to focus a lot on knitting this week. I must complete at least a scarf before the outside temperature turns to 35° C (announced for Wednesday!) otherwise I'll have to wait for the Fall season and give my scarves to the homeless in the northern hemisphere...
I finally finished the first half of the cotton Brea Bag I'm making! I made a mistake somewhere but I'm sure it won't show too much. I had some trouble getting into the pattern for the first 6-8 rows, but after that it went on pretty fast. Now I have a doubt about finishing it. The pattern says, for last row:
* Sl 2 tog knitwise, k1, psso, rep from * 3 times more.
With RS facing, using crochet hook and 2 strands of yarn held tog, work in Reverse Sc along top edges of bag back and front
The shade is the one suggested by the book, 1317 Pink, but I have to say that in the pics it looked more pinky but from real is a mix of pink and cyclamen, that I like less.
Yesterday I made it, I went to the Stitch 'n' Bitch in Milan. In the lovely surroundings of the Fiat Cafè in la Triennale, Milan's design museum, we chatted and knitted.
I had a great time with Typesetter, Ing. and Pm10, and I was really glad to finally meet them. We even had a super special guest, Ingrid's little girl, Anke Leen. She is a great little crocheter and made a lovely mini blanket for her doll.
Ing. finished her marvelous Forecast sweater, Typesetter advanced in her revisited summer top, Susan finished her *adorable* crocheted hat (I am totally partial ;-) and me? I made 2 rows of Brea Bag and one row of my crocheted blanket.
The rest of the time we obviously chatted and compared our different ways of knitting and crocheting. I didn't know there were so many ways of achieving the same results! So Fascinating!
I didn't even know that it was physically possible to knit at Ing's super speed. This girl is a real serial knitter, no wonders it takes her only one week to finish a sweater!!! I am impressed and totally envious :-D
Great day so, and I look forward to the next meeting!
Sometimes I am such a mess! Since I fell in love with the Brea Bag pattern I focused on it and I really wanted to do it in this week end (knowing that I still have to finish my crochet blanket and I have to start knitting for the homeless...).
Every time I step by Knitaly's blog I'm more and more exited about this lovely knitted bag. The only problem is I am toooooooo messy.
I've started the bag three times now. The first time I used a single strand of yarn and the knitting needles were too big, so the texture was too large. So I undid it. The second time I used two strands together, but I miscounted the stitches and I had to undo it. The third (I really thought it was the LAST) time, I switched again to a single strand and I used thinner needles. But, although I've been very careful counting the stitches, I'm at the end of first row and... I have two stitches in excess. *____* I'm hopeless. I guess I'll start again tomorrow...
...to help others! Vik launched this beautiful and helpful project for homeless people, knittingforhomeless.blogspot.com.
Italian knitters I'm telling you this so you can join Vik, making even just one scarf would help the needy. Spread the word!
I'm on it and if you want we could make a knitting/crocheting group together :-)
I have a real weakness for Vogue Knitting. Every time a new issue hits the kiosks I fell in love with its new collection of perfectly knitted and crocheted garments, sweaters, skirts and more. Look at the new Spring/Summer collection 2007, isn't it gorgeous?
I know I will never ever have the patience, the skills and the budget to realize models like those, but I like to dream about it! ;-)
I've just received an e-mail from Lion Brand informing that they started doing podcasts with knitting videos, look at that tutorial on how to knit with Ruffles Yarn.
Interesting isn't it? Actually I tried downloading the Quicktime version and didn't work, but the flash version works pretty good. Nice!
