KnitPicks in Europe!

The French online shop Tricotin.com sells KnitPicks yarn and needles. I have heard lots of good things about the quality, and the prices are really good.

Among other things, the store keeps KnitPicks SockBlanks, knitted pieces to be painted and ripped back to knit uniquely patterned socks.

Since Tricotin is a French shop, there's no risk of added taxes or duty-fees for EU-based clients. (And as far as I know, KnitPicks in the US are still not able to handle overseas orders...)

Other nice things from the Tricotin shop:

The lovely handdyed embroidery or knitting wool from Renaissance Dyeing. You can buy 12 different shades in a kit, and some of the colours are available in bigger skeins. This could be the starting point for some sublime work! [Renaissance Dyeing in Ravelry]

Chevalier du sable

Meet my new hero: le Chevalier du sable.

Needles, sticks and a loaded gun

My husband the ski enthusiast told me about one of the world's best female biathlon athletes, Magdalena Neuner from Germany. She is three times world champion in the noble sport of skiing and shooting.


She's also a knitter, and German yarn makers Lana Grossa seem to be among her sponsors. They have set up a website for her, Magdalena strickt, with patterns and knitblog. It's all in German, but the language of knitting is usually quite easy to interpret.

Blogger seems to have upload problems again, if you can't see the images here, take a look in her Bildergalerie.

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The weather in Luxemburg is far from suitable for skiing, it's quite warm and the skies have been clear and blue for several days now. I have finished Mr Greenjeans, I just need to trim the yarn ends and sew in buttons. It's very nice. I'll get photos for the blog and Ravelry this weekend. (At least it's the plan!)

I just cast on for a pair of Chevalier mittens, using a Finnish pattern (luckily with English translation!). I'm using two strands of Jojoland Harmony, and so far my first mitten is beautiful. I'm cabling without cable needle and the double yarn, the very tight cables and 5 dpns make for an interesting adventure...

My husband wanted a red and black scarf and I had some problems finding the right pattern. In the end I settled for bicolour brioche (tvåfärgad patentstickning).

Bis später!

Dubbelmössa

So, what's this? A rugby ball cover for winter training? Nope. It's a dubbelmössa for my father.

It can be worn like this:



Or like this:

Pay It Forward!

Jag kommer att skicka en handgjord present till de tre första personer som lämnar en kommentar på min svenska blogg och säger att de vill vara med i Pay It Forward. Jag vet inte vad det blir, och det kommer inte att bli klart på den här sidan jul, men någongång under de närmaste 365 dagarna blir det klart. Det lovar jag! Det enda jag begär av den som anmäler sig är att han eller hon lovar samma sak på sin egen blogg.

Min hemliga present kommer så småningom från Emma & Co.

I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my Swedish blog requesting to join this Pay It Forward exchange. I don't know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.

Reporting in

- The new Knitty is up, and I'm impressed by the number of patterns and the variety, but there is only one thing I'd really like to knit from this issue: Jeanie

- I'm on Ravelry since a month or so, my user name is JorunKnits. It's an impressive thing, the Ravelry, but I'm not planning to list everything I own and plan there, I don't have that much time on my hands...

- I still knit.

Recently finished:
- one of my sockyarn shawls for the church bazaar
- a machine washable baby blanket for a boy who is six days today. Tonight I dreamed that he was learning to walk - can you tell that my life is speeding by?
- a Calorimetry headband
- a purple bamboo scarf

On the needles in Lux:
- Mr Greenjeans cardigan
- Big green log cabin blanket in sock yarn
- A dubbelmössa hat for my big boy
- A scarf that I've more or less ignored for a month or so
- A pretty grey invention that needs to get back on track. Will pick it up again when Mr Greenjeans is completed.

On the needles in Sweden:
- a dog blanket
- a silk/cashmere shawl
- my neglected Phildar eponge/sunset cardi
- a big thick Phildar sweater in need of sleaves
- a number (yet unknown) of other things in various stages of completion.

Jeanie will have to wait a little...

Knitty fall 07: WOW!

The Knitty fall issue is finally up, and I'm very impressed. Normally, each issue contains one or two things I might consider knitting. This one is full of great designs, and one or two that I don't like. And looking at the things I don't like, I believe it's more a question of sizing, the knitters should have sized up their garments or found slightly smaller models.

I think I could quite happily knit through all of these patterns.