Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2018

Coffee & Crafts Sunday

I’ve been feeling quite a bit under the weather lately, but last weekend something special happened to lift my spirits: We had our first Coffee & Crafts Sunday. And it was brilliant!
As many of my friends also are into crafts, I thought it would be nice to meet up regularly for the sole purpose of talking about knitting, crochet and sewing. Also, it is a good strategy to see each other more often in between work, kids (some of us) and all the other stuff. So from now on, we get together on second Sunday of every month to have coffee, chat and share our current projects.
The first issue was a success even though some people couldn’t make it due to sickness. Sanna brought a delicious red wine cake, we also still had a a part of the ginger bread loo (Yes!) she had brought another day, there was coffee and lots and lots of fun.




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You wanna know what we were working on? Here it comes.
Having been a huge crochet fan for a long time, Maria is currently undertaking the second go at learning how to knit. She has successfully cast on and knitted the first rows of a seed stitch cowl for her daughter in a beautiful aubergine-coloured Merino yarn. I didn’t get around to taking a picture, but they will definitely follow as she is determined to learn a nice bind-off next time.

Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2018

The Stax hat

 

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The Stax hat is one of these projects I just had to knit again - partly because I lost the first hat on the train after only a few weeks of wearing it. A bummer, but on the other hand the pattern is a lot of fun so it didn’t bother me too much. I made a slouchy version because I just like that better than a classic beanie, and instead of using a circular needle and later switching to double-pointed ones, I knitted it entirely on a set of double-pointed needles.
The hat has a very nice texture that reminds me a bit of branches or scales, depending on the angle from which you look a it. It sometimes makes me think of a thick conifer forest, sometimes of armadillos…