Splash of colour

My interlock Gedifra sweater is done and it is so bright in our rainy-gloomy-miserable weather. I wanted to take some lovely and happy shots with it, to do some justice to the projects, try to give you the feel of it. But the end result is: fat-yellow-skin-looking-girl.
Just to let you know: in real life/light yellow colour doesn’t make me look like a HP B patient and I don’t look that big in it.





Pattern: Model 755 Gedifra Highlights 052
Yarn: Gedifra Fashion Trend Colour 150g in green and 450g in yellow
Needles: 6mm 40’ Addi circulars
Modifications: none

There was a mistake in the pattern yardage and I was left with one extra ball of green colour yarn and one yellow ball short (fortunately, my yarn problem was quickly resolved). And the extra green ball soon became a helmet hat.

Helmet Hat
Pattern: my own
Yarn: 1 ball of Gedifra Fashion Trend Colour in green
Needles: 6mm 40’ Addi circulars and 4mm Addi DPNs


P.S. Ava, the lovely item from previous post is a shawl, though it is more like a large scarf.

New Year, same life

I hope all had a nice time over holidays. It is just so sad it is so soon over and done with. I didn’t knit as much I would have wished for and spend most of the time in bed ill.

This is a strange thing: I am getting the cold every two weeks now and my immune system doesn’t have enough time for the simplest rehab. Awful… it all started this September as I had get another abscess on my toe (as if 3 operations last year wasn’t enough), last year I had been found to have an MRS infection which I got in the hospital over here in UK. I was treated with yet another extensive course of antibiotic cocktail. It sort of worked for the toe, but now I am so weak I have these continuous relapses of cold. I only hope it would pass soon.

Anyway, I was ok on the actual New Year Eve and went out with my boyfriend and friends. It was nice, not too outrageous, not a drinking-dancing night, just a nice conversation night.

I have been thinking about resolutions for some time now and decided to say a no to them, chances of me keeping them are just too faint because what could the resolutions of the knitter be? Yes, as usual: not too buy too much yarn and try to use the stash. I would love to do it, but not sure I am strong enough.

On the more cheerful news: I have received the ball of yarn needed to finish Gedifra sweater off. Thank you, a wonderful Lana, a woman in Germany whom I never met in my life, but who has such a generous heart.

A complete disaster!

AAA!!! I am stuck with my Gedifra Sweater. The yarn specified for the pattern is one ball less then needed. I am almost done, just one cuff needed and there is no yarn to knit if from.
Spend lots of time on the net yesterday searching for it but all in vain. It just disappeared form the net shops, and I only need one ball
Please, all the nice knitters who saw Gedifra Fashion Trend Color (in shade 4508) in shops ( I know it is common in Canada), please, please, please buy it for me (I will pay you for it and the shipment via PayPal). This is my last resort!

Another week has passed

I am burning at Uni right now and so there is no time left for knitting and blogging. Not only I don’t write anything new, I also don’t read much these days and if I do, I don’t comment. Sorry guys.
Christmas stocking is still untouched since last update, I’ve done a little bit on entrelac Sweater, but this is it. Don’t know when I will catch up.

Guilty Pleasures

I think there is something completely wrong with me as I cannot stand synthetic yarn. It is ridiculous; I can even detect the 15% mix. So, my hands were absolutely killing me and I had to frog Christmas Stocking. I decided to go to Robert Sayles (John Lewis) today in search of something alternative, at least that was the plan. Ha, yeah right, alternative came in the form of something expensive: RCY. So far I only got 2 balls and then will buy more as I come along.



I also became tempted by the Rowan Studio first issue, so here it comes and the model which I want but not sure will fit me.



The mail order came in today with my long waited and anticipated alpaca (my future VK beret). And I absolutely love it, so gorgeous and soft. Plus it smells fantastic! Now I have to wait for 9mm DPN, and it will take another 2 weeks as retailed run out of stock.




(The colour is teal. So I guess the second picture is closer to real yarn, however not exactly. My camera hates me)

And another thing, I had such a stressful week last week that I just wanted a relaxing knit, without row counting, stitches counting, something I could do from the top of my head. I read Eunny blog and the idea struck me: I have long wanted this Gedifra Highlights 42 sweater and I had the yarn for it at the bottom of the stash: so here it comes, first rows revealed.