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Baby Surprise Jacket

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

I simply LOVE the Baby Surprise Jacket that Elizabeth Zimmermann designed in 1968. When you’ve gotten used to reading the instructions it’s simple and fun to knit and the result is brilliant! A piece that doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen turns into a beautiful baby jacket. I love to try it out with different types of yarn to make different sizes.

This is my latest BSJ, in blue and white for my newest nephew.

Pattern: Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Yarn: Ístex Létt-Lopi
Needles:  4.5 mm.
My Little Blue BSJ on Ravelry.

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Knitting with Mr. Fibonacci!

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician born in 1170. He is known for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers where every number is the sum of the two previous numbers.

It starts like this:  0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233… etc.

So… why am I, the knitter, going on about some Italian that loved numbers?

Because the Fibonacci numbers are BRILLIANT for striped knitting! Yes, by using these numbers to help us decide when to change colors you get a garmet that is random in color without looking like you where really confused when choosing the colors.

This is a vest I made, using Fibonacci’s numbers with the striping:

Pattern:  Vesti goes hipp from the book Prjóniprjón
Yarn: Létt-Lopi from my stash
Needles: 3,5 and 4,5 circulars, 60 cm.

Here is the project on Ravelry.

On the needles now is a shawl. The pattern is from the book Prjóniprjón, the needles are 6.0 mm. KnitPro’s and the yarn is my very own hand dyed Eigingirni. Here is what it looks like now… just a few stitches on the needles:

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Frost all done! :)

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

The traditional icelandic sweater I was making for a friend of mine is all done and shipped to USA!

Pattern:  Frost by Védís Jónsdóttir from Lopi 29
Yarn:  Álafoss lopi, same colors as in the pattern

A little close up on the finishing…

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A birthday gift

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

Inspired by the icelandic handball team, playing on EM in Austria, I knitted this hat for a birthday gift. It’s icelandic wool and the colors of the icelandic flag.

Pattern:  Dökk húfa úr tvöföldum plötulopa from the book Vettlingar og fleira.
I made up the fair isle part.
Yarn:  Plötulopi (unspun Icelandic wool), had 2 strands together.
Needles:  4.5 mm.

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WHERE did January go?!

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

It feels like 2009 was just yesterday…  School is taking a lot of my time, but there’s always time for knitting ;)

Me and I had a little conversation yesterday about how we’d spend today. The options were many: study, read schoolbooks, do assignements for school, clean the apartment, knit, hand dye…

Of course I didn’t do what would have been smart to do or what absolutely HAS to be done… I hand dyed!  I just had few skeins but it turned out I was running out of color so that was ok. Unfortunately, I need batteries for my camera so you’ll just have to imagene that here is a photo of 7 wonderful hand dyed skeins ;)

I joined a mystery knit-a-long in the beginning of January. It started of with few left over skeins of Létt-Lopi and 4.5 mm. needles:

After the first clue, it looked like this and I had no clue what so ever where this was going:

And after 5 clues this is what I got: (with a little variation from myself…)

For more photos of this project, check it out on Ravelry ;)

I haven’t decided if I’m going to put buttons or crochet the edge or what…

 

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First project of 2010!

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Knitty Attitude

The first project of 2010 is a traditional icelandic sweater for my friend Rocky. I have both of the sleeves done. Hint if you don’t like knitting sleeves: Knit the second one first, it helps ;)

Pattern: Frost by Védís Jónsdóttir,  from Lopi 29
Yarn:  Álafoss Lopi
Needles:  4.5 mm. and 6.0 mm.


NB! There is an error in the pattern for the sleeves for the size small. It says CO 34 sts, knit 4 cm. of rib and then add 2 sts. Then you have total of 36 sts but the fair isle pattern requires number of sts you can divide with 8. So I casted on like it says for the size medium and adjusted the number of sts along the way. I ended up with 48 sts as told in the pattern.

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Vesti goes hipp… finally! ;)

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Knitty Attitude

So… I made it! I finished to knit my huff-vest mentioned earlier!

Weaving ends is not my favorite thing in knitting…
there 128 ends to weave in!
Note to self: NO MORE striped 10 color garments!

Vesti goes hipp from the book Prjóniprjón
Yarn:  Létt-Lopi, left over yarn
Needles:  3,5 mm. and 4,5 mm.

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Autumn knits!

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Knitty Attitude

Autumn is here! There is no way for me not to notice as the rain has been poring down for a week now. I love the autumn, it’s cozy and for me it means new beginning. I started reading folklore at the University of Iceland in the beginning of September and now my days are full of folklore (they were before, I just didn’t know it! ;) ) and knitting. And a little Bubbles. Just a little… ;)

I have great friends that moved to Iceland one year ago. Me and my boyfriend are going to visit them tomorrow and I will bring this:

A little winter package

Lopi hats for the whole family :)

(Let’s hope they won’t read the blog before we arrive!)

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Recently finished projects ;)

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Knitty Attitude

I finished three projects the other day and now they are all washed and ready to use:

First there is a scarf from Noro Kureyon on 4.5 mm. needles. I used 3 skeins and it turn out to be 166 cm. long. More photos on my Flickr and the pattern (very simple!) can be found on Ravelry. I haven’t made up my mind if I’m going to keep it or give it away…

These two Lopi hats are gifts. There made with two threads of unspun icelandic wool (plötulopi) on 4.5mm. needles. The pattern is originally from the book Vettlingar og fleira but I made up the fair isle work myself.

On the needles at this very moment are two more Lopi hats (they are great for the icelandic winter ;) ).  I just might chrochet something in the nearest future, I can feel my chrochet-fingers itch…

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