Everybody’s been knitting the Seascape Stole, including me. As I had to knit it in really laceweighty yarn, it took forever

It was a present for my mother’s 70 year birthday, and she really liked it. I chose the seascape because she lives in Scheveningen and the colour because it suits her.

As I mentioned earlier, I won Farmapa’s snood:

Feel like someone from the Moomins.

I was googling for the combination “Christel Seyfarth” & Fassett because I wondered if I were the only one to find her designs very KF-inspired as I stumbeld upon Princes Pumpkins blog. She had also been yarn shopping in Stockholm, and had visited almost the same shops as I had. She also liked Anntorps Väv the best, as did I – I actually passed three times pondering whether to buy a lot of expensive swedish wool in marvelous colours… (I decided to wait untill I had used the Kauni that I bought in Naestved). More about the Kauni at a later time…

I spent most of my holidays in Denmark and Sweden:

Knitting activism on Götgatan

Yesterday being the last day of the unraveling 2007, I unraveled a wip of mine, the silk scarf based on the Ogee Lace Skirt by Gryphon Perkins from Interweave Knits of Summer 2007.  I had used the central part of the pattern, but it didn’t look well. The silk was too ‘fluffy’ to look good in this pattern. Now I’ve started a two color brioche scarf, inspired by the workshop I took with Nancy Marchant. I took the technical instruction from the pattern found at Run and Not Grow Weary (who refers to Borealis Yarns for copyright. I’m surprised they could copyright it, it’s so generic ;-) ).