wild at heart

 
when I stumbled the other day over this pin at Pinterest and got all excited by the idea to knit up all my carefully collected yarn scraps.
Seriously, I never thought that there is a way to match the awful colour and texture mix of them.
But from my experience in scrap patching, I know, the wilder the better!!!
So I just got started last Friday evening and by the time it was past midnight I was already half up the way...
as I looked at the job at day light the following morning, I was stunned by effect.

I am working with a circular 100cm wooden 7mm needle and use what ever I have in the scrap basket,
merino, mohair ( doubling the yarn), Aran tweed ( my favoured) and pure new wool, a lot of the wool I
brought down to Spain nearly 20 years ago!!

Like I don't know yet, if this is going do be a poncho or a wrap, I casted about 180cm length of stitches.
Working in rows of Knit and Purl stitches as it pleases me, and if sometimes I just get confused in the middle of a row -doesn't matter...

So this is an other WORK IN PROGRESS !! and so much fun...

Hasta luego
Silvana

All you knit is love

I was giving a knitting workshop this month for beginners,

introducing them into knitting with circular needles.

It was quite a task, as my students are Spanish and they already new a bit of the job, working with long needles...

and this was my dilemma!!!

Cause they have this funny way of  clamp them under the arms and lift the yarn over the needles, instead of catching it...

The mere look at it gives me muscular cramp,

but they resisted to learn it the other way,

so we kept on going round and round...

and made beautiful and comfy double  loop scarves from wonderful 100% wool, 

which

I bought in my favoured wool shop in Barcelona

All you knit is love

Carrer de la Barra de Ferro, 8

Five playing...

...or how to knit cute boot cuffs!!

I used 100g bulky yarn and a set of 3,5mm bamboo needles and a 5mm crochet hook

cast 12 stitches on each of for needles

than start with the fifth working in rounds

always K2, P2

work up to a length of 22cm

than loosely cast off

use the last stitch to crochet the shell edge

stitch in between two K stitches and work 5 DC

and in between two P stitches work one SC

all the round

work the second boot cuff the same way,

if you like you can add a crochet flower!!!

Enjoy!!