tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84189885595088178762024-03-05T07:35:46.650+01:00my daily dose of happinessA blog about things that make me happy, mainly knitting and traveling. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-69142184118046607732019-10-21T14:29:00.000+02:002019-10-21T14:29:31.813+02:00Totally nonsensical knitting pattern found on the internet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
During a recent pinterest/ravelry-browsing-binge, hunting for new patterns for the winter, I realized that a lot of the projects that people find "super cute" or "so practical" are - from a knitters point of view - just plain nonsense. I'm always wondering if those posts are made by people that don't actually knit or if they actually think that stuff makes sense?<br />
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I don't want to be demeaning, everybody can knit whatevery they want. Also, tastes differ obviously. And sometime the pure process of knitting can already be therapeutic so I understand if you do not care so much about the finished product. But why not invest your time in something more useful? <br />
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Some examples:<br />
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<b>1) The knitted washcloth</b>. Have you looked at the price of a ball of yarn recently?! How can it make any sense to spend 5 € on yarn, spend the time knitting it and then probably only use it a few times until you realize that you cannot put it in the washing machine and you chuck it out because it smells disgusting if an actual washcloth only costs 20 cents? I mean, I'm all in for knitting practical things but in that case you really have to re-evaluate the usefulness of that project.<br />
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<b>2) The knitted curtains.</b> This seems to be especially popular on pinterest at the moment but again, this seems rather complicated to me. It might be fun knitting a lace curtain (even though of course it is a very expensive curtain) but do you never want to wash it?<br />
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<b>3) The lace stockings.</b> Yes, I do knit socks and I love that they keep my feet warm on cold winter days (and nights) but stockings are a completely different level. I don't know who still wears stockings in the first place but may I remind you that those things have the tendency to slide down annoyingly quickly, especially if they're made from a non-stretch yarn (which lace usually is)? And I suppose they have not really thought about the fact that you will probably have worn them out after only a few times because lace yarn is usually too delicate? I have bad experiences even with normal, non-sock yarn that I used once to try it out and I had holes in my socks after wearing them only once.<br />
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3.a) This is also true for socks made from non-sock yarn that have holes in them after wearing them 3 times (there was a reason why sock yarn was invented).<br />
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3.b) And also a minor pet-peeve of mine: socks knitted with different colour strands - how can anyone knit the pattern stretchy enough to fit over your feet?? Or am I just too dumb? In my experience, once you include colourwork the socks loose their stretch and I cannot pull them over my foot anymore. Not comfy! <br />
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<b>4) Amigurumi:</b> Sorry, I do have to admit that they're cute but I don't really get the point. I wouldn't know what to do with all those teeny-tiny pandas, unicorns, and dragons. Knitting a scarf would probably be more productive.<br />
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<b>5) Blankets</b>: Ok, I admit that I have knitted a baby blanket in the past. And I admit that there are some really, really beautiful patterns out there (Purl Soho, I'm looking at you!) that I would love to knit. But seriously, yarn is just way too expensive to waste it on a huge blanket! Scrap blankets and granny squares I totally sign up for, anything that uses leftovers and doesn't require actually buying yarn for a blanket. Also, the time spent on knitting 324957038 km of garter stitch I rather invest in a more challenging pattern. <br />
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That leads me to the conclusion that some people either have no sense of practicality or are just extremely bored so that knitting jumpers, cardigans, hats, mittens, socks, blankets, or other remotely useful projects are not enough anymore. Otherwise, enlighten me! Why do people do this? </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-19423737472020609372019-09-02T10:10:00.000+02:002019-09-02T10:10:00.349+02:00Colour block baby cardigan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A little side project with leftover sock yarn. My usual baby cardigan pattern with contrasting ribbing and neck line, super easy and quick. I enjoyed knitting it even though the stitches are so small but the sock yarn knits up smoothly and it was done fast.<br />
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Unfortunately I knit it a bit late so Baby S. didn't really get to wear it before the summer and now it is obviously too small. Maybe another lucky baby will receive it as a gift when the opporunity arises, it's too nice to end up in a box somewhere!<br />
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And last point of criticism: the button holes should have been moved one stitch further away from the edge of the button band. As you can see in the image, the buttons end up too close to the edge and that makes it look wonky.<br />
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So knitting the same pattern many times still teaches you new things sometimes.<br />
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Pattern: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (top-down)</a> by the Students of Subway Academy II<br />
Yarn: Leftover sock yarns, amongst others Lang "Jawoll" <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-59510677892888531852019-08-30T10:04:00.000+02:002019-08-30T10:04:03.913+02:00My summer knitting project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Arent't these colours AMAZING?? This is the main reason why I bought this Pickles Merino Bliss. Also, it was on sale. But these colours! I had already an idea in my mind for a long time to knit a colour block cardigan in bright pink and red but I never found the right yarn for it, most of them were too dull. The blue I just bought on a whim because it went well together with the other colours.<br />
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It was the first time I ordere from Pickles and it was a really good experience, everything went smoothly and after I asked them about the ethics-factor of their yarns they wrote the following answer:<br />
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"All of our wool is free of mulesing, and all of our couloring uses Oekotex-certified dyes.
We only have agreements with producers that we know do
ethical trading. For instance do our Organic Cotton producers provide
education and food for their workers and their families."</blockquote>
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I looked for a suitable pattern because the yarn is very thin and after a long search I settled on Ysolda's "<a href="https://ysolda.com/products/stockbridge?_pos=1&_sid=14196a911&_ss=r">Stockbridge</a>". I didn't plan on buying a pattern since ravelry is full of amazing free patterns but I figured this one is quite basic and I re-use it in many different ways. Again, I'm quite happy with the download procedure and everything. Although for 7 GBP I think you could also expect a hard copy to be honest...<br />
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Casting on will be exciting! New pattern, new yarn, new luck!</div>
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Wow, I'm sooo behind with posting. Sometimes I'm wondering while I'm even hanging on to the blog while everyone else is on Instagram nowadays. But I still really do enjoy the writing, and not just typing on my phone (which really is a pain in the you-know-what).<br />
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So what I wanted to write about was our trip to Montreal in May this year. I had really been looking forward to this trip and it was going to be my first time in Canada and Baby S.'s first time outside the EU ever! We had prepared everything well and I wasn't too worried about the long flight, in fact the outbound flight went quite well. It was still of course the opposite of relaxing but ok, we could handle it. He even napped long enough for us to watch Aquaman during the flight which is quite a long film to be honest.<br />
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But once we arrived in Montreal it got a bit more difficult. Jetlag hit. And it hit us hard. While we parents actually got over it pretty quickly (having a baby makes you used to sleep deprivation I learned), the little one was not so pleased. During the entire week we stayed there he regularly woke up around 4 am and wanted to play, then refused to nap during the day.<br />
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It was also still quite cold in Montreal at that time of the year, comparable to February/March in Belgium I would say. Luckily we had packed the right sort of clothing but it was still not great since the only way to occupy the baby was going for walks and spotting buses, which he developed as his new favourite activity while we were there. So I ended up exploring the underground malls of Montreal in all their beauty. It's very practical, I have to admit, but if you are already suffering from a lack of sleep you wouldn't mind at least getting some fresh air and daylight once in a while.<br />
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So all in all I don't regret the trip, it still got me to explore a new city which I enjoyed. But being by myself (Thomas was working at a conference the whole week) with baby, the bad weather, and jet lag combined actually made me come home more tired than I was before. Oh, and did I mention the flight back? Yes, it was hell. 7 hours of sleepless hell on an overnight flight. I will stick to daytime flights with babies in the future.<br />
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My Top 10 things I liked about Montreal:<br />
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<li>Amazing coffee places, like this one: <a href="https://www.paquebot.ca/paquebot-vieuxmtl">Paquebot, Vieux Montreal</a></li>
<li>Green spaces & parks such as Mont-Royal, the botanic gardens, and St. Helen's island</li>
<li>Good public transport and walking (not so evident for North America)</li>
<li> <a href="https://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/">McCord Museum</a> about First Nations' culture and art </li>
<li> <a href="https://www.icao.int/about-icao/ICAOMuseum/Pages/default.aspx">Museum of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)</a> which has its headquarters in Montreal (register in advance for a guided tour)</li>
<li>The Mile End and Plateau neighbourhoods for the maximum hipster experience</li>
<li><a href="https://parcolympique.qc.ca/en/">Montreal Olympic Stadium</a></li>
<li>People speak French AND English (well, most of them)</li>
<li>Lots of buses and trucks to spot for little ones</li>
<li>Also, tame squirrels tha people feed in parks.</li>
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I did one day trip, which is definitely worth it but unfortunately I didn't have a very good experience personally. I will describe it in more detail because it was so ridiculous: I was interested in Quebec's First Nations people and on the Internet I found this place called <a href="https://kahnawaketourism.com/">Kahnawake</a> just outside Montreal that was reachable by bus, so I thought I'd make a daytrip out of it. Unfortunately this didn't quite go as planned. There were only 3 buses per day and missed the first one so I could only leave in the afternoon.<br />
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Finally on our way, crossing the bridge of the St. Lawrence river was amazing. But on the other side the streets became more winding and the driver was not very skilled so started feeling a bit car sick. Baby S. had been sitting on my lap and became gradually more quiet, which I mistook for tiredness. The moment we had finally reached our destination and I was getting off, it happened: S. threw up all of the fruit puree he just ate over me, the floor of the bus, and -of course- the drivers' bag which was besides him.<br />
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Covered in vomit, trying to wrestle the pram out of the bus with one hand and with a sick baby on my other arm, the driver still had the nerve to ask me to clean up the bus! I was so angry that I just threw him a packet of wet wipes - which I subsequently regretted because after the bus left, I didn't have much to wipe us down with. A well, the vomit splashes on my shoes are still there now.<br />
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Luckily it was only a short bout of car sickness which I can totally empathise with after feeling it a bit myself. But not so luckily, we had arrived just before the closing time of the visitor's centre and all the other "attractions" in the little community, which was really more of a residential small town. I was given directions to a café where I spent half an hour, trying to clean us both up, and then decided to catch the next bus back again because there was nothing to do there anymore.<br />
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Of course, to finish off this ridiculous trip, when the bus pulled up, it was the same driver as before! He had just done a loop and was no going back downtown. Even though I was still angry I got myself to apologize for the incident (although I still think it was the drivers' bad driving which had caused it in the first place) and he got us back to Montreal. One of the lowest moments on this trip, I was happy it was over.<br />
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Oh, and I didn't learn anything about Kahnawake, its people, or the history of the First Nations in Quebec besides the wikipedia article that I read after I came home.<br />
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This was one of those spontaneous knits that I wanted to cast on immediately when I discovered the pattern on Ravelry. Actually, I think I had already saved it in my favourites a long time ago but now I came across it again and was inspired!<br />
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It was a great project to use up some of my stash of assorted Latvian fingering yarns, most of it <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/tines-tines">Tines </a>I think. The grey one I know for sure but the other colours are leftovers of some nameless skeins that I bought at Hobbywool in Riga a few years ago.<br />
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First I tried to hold the yarn double to match it with the gauge suggested in the pattern, using a worsted weight yarn. But I didn't like it and it was very tiring to knit so I started again. I definitely prefer knitting with finer yarn, even though it takes a bit longer. It looks much neater at the end.<br />
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To get the correct size I picked up the amount of stitches given for the biggest children's size and that worked out well to get a size fitting a 12-18 months old. I also added 6 stitches for the steek. Apart from that I followed the instructions for the jumper pattern and then added the button band in the end. I took up slightly too many stitches for the band though, I have 86 and I should have probably done around 70 to get a better length.<br />
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Conclusion: sometimes the quickest decisions bring the best results!<br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kulan">Kulan</a>" by Isabella H.<br />
Yarn: Grey main colour: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/tines-tines">Tines</a>"; other colours from <a href="https://www.hobbywool.com/">Hobbywool</a></div>
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This easter we had planned to go on our first real holiday since the trip to the UK last summer. We were really looking forward to some warmth and sun in Portugal after the long winter, especially because Baby S. had been sick SO_MUCH. I can honestly say, we were sick of being sick!<br />
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But of course, just a week before we were supposed to go, Baby S. got sick again - pneumonia this time. In my mind I had already cancelled the whole trip, luckily we took out travel insurance with exactly this scenario in mind. And when I just thought it couldn't get any worse I got my second round of tonsillitis within a couple of weeks. I think our immune systems were just destroyed. But in the end the antibiotics worked wonders and we were able to go off into our holidays as planned!<br />
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We were basically a travelling pharmacy with all our pills and inhalers and whatnot but even being sick is better if you are in a nice place. So we spent first a couple of days in Lisbon, then took the train to Evora in the central Alentejo region, and rounded off the trip with a few days by the beach in Sesimbra, near Lisbon.<br />
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All places were very different but lovely. We were just early enough to be off season so we had the whole beach to ourselves. Ok, the weather was also not exactly beach-friendly but we're not the kind of people who hang out at the beach the whole day either. We went for a lot of walks, had delicious pasteis de nata and cheap coffee basically every day, hung out in local parks and chatted with elderly locals.<br />
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Travelling with baby is definitely different but I still enjoy it a lot. Just spending time with the three of us and escaping the daily grind is so nice! Even if you are still woken up at 6:30 am and you cannot go out and party all night (as if we ever did that), it's a holiday.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-65160217244906123852019-05-15T09:03:00.000+02:002019-05-15T09:03:07.217+02:00"Minetta" cardigan for 1 May<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm so proud of this project!! I had already started the "Minetta" once before and frogged it when it was almost done because it didn't fit well. This time I used the recommended yarn ("Titus" of <a href="https://baaramewe.co.uk/">Baa Ram Ewe</a>) and it turned out perfect. I guess that is one of those lessons about using the indicated yarn and measurements and not just freestyling with whatever you have in your stash.<br />
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But this time both a wonderful pattern and an amazing yarn came together and it just matches. It was easy to follow the instructions, even though it took me some time to figure out the beginning because the cable pattern only starts a bit further down. From then on it was very straight forward. I only deviated minimally from the pattern, for modifications <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/minetta">check my Ravelry notes</a>.<br />
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The "Titus" was a Christmas gift from a few years ago after I did a test knit for Baa Ram Ewe and I fell in love with this yarn. It is not cheap but really lovely to knit with and looking at the result totally worth it. I used just over three skeins so actually not too bad. I would definitely use it again, although I want to first wear the cardigan for a while to see how it wears and behaves over time.<br />
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After many "meh" projects this one is a total coup de coeur, I can see myself wearing it a lot. The only teeny tiny comment I have is about my own choice of colour: again a light blue. As mentioned in previous posts my resolution for future projects is to be a bit more adventurous with warmer colours.<br />
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In the pictures below you can see some lily-of-the-valley from the garden of my parents in law. In Belgium they are given out traditionally on first of May as they are called "May bells" to celebrate Labour Day. We already had them at home but nevertheless, a beautiful accessory for a beautiful 1 May. <br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minetta">Minetta</a>" by Kirsten Kapur, published in "<a href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEw14/index.php">Knitty</a>", winter 2014<br />
Yarn: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/baa-ram-ewe-titus">Titus</a>" by <a href="https://baaramewe.co.uk/">Baa Ram Ewe</a>, colourway "Aire" <br />
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This pattern has the very unromantic name of "0611-01 Pullover" but I love the colourwork. I saw Clara's version on her blog a while ago (I think this is where I get most of my inspriration from) and thought it was time to finally get working on this pattern, especially because I didn't knit any lopapeysa this winter (which has become a kind of tradition).<br />
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The yarn is hand-dyed with plant-based colours but I don't remember the name of the brand. The colour stayed really nicely and I still like the shade a lot. I realized though that almost all of the jumpers I knitted recently are in some kind of blue. I really need to re-think my colour choices! Maybe some warmer reds or yellows for my next projects.<br />
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Nothing special about this knit, maybe I should mention that the yoke is a bit too high-fitting for my taste - some modifications with short rows might have been good but I was too lazy and just followed the chart.<br />
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My <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/0611-01-pullover">Ravelry notes can be found here</a>. <br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/0611-01-pullover">0611-01 Pullover</a>" by Olaug Kleppe<br />
Yarn: Finkhof Merinowolle fein (handdyed blue-green); Rowan Pure Wool Superwash Worsted (ivory)</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-3196805288893728862019-05-03T08:00:00.000+02:002019-05-03T08:00:01.136+02:00"Flax Light" mini stashbuster project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This was a bit of stashbuster project with the leftovers from the Brunches and Buds Pullover in my previous post and the baby blanket (which was a scarf in its previous life). As a base pattern I used the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flax-light">Flax light</a>" pattern by tincanknits which I had already had an eye on for a while.<br />
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It was very straight forward and I liked to knit it from the top down because I wasn't sure how much yarn I had left exactly. It worked out quite well even though I wish I had had more of the blue yarn to knit the sleeves in the same colour. But I think it still looks ok with the stripey cuffs.<br />
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One last thing I'm not so happy with is the collar: it is way too wide. Next time I'll go down a needle size or maybe cast on a few stitches less. But I want to try more of the tincanknits patterns and this was a good one to start with.<br />
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My<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/flax-light"> ravelry notes can be found here</a>. <br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flax-light">Flax Light</a>" by tincanknits<br />
Yarn: Leftover scraps of different merino yarns, e.g. Schachenmayr Merino 120 and similar.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-58885322496503708742019-04-30T20:35:00.001+02:002019-04-30T20:35:26.973+02:00Branches & Buds jumper revisited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It took me a while to post this because the jumper has been ready for a few months but I couldn't decide whether I should make it into a cardigan again or not. In the end I decided to leave it as it is for now - luckily I can still change my mind with a quick steek.<br />
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The pattern is still very nice and simple, this time I actually used the correctly weighted yarn so it was even easier than <a href="http://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.com/2016/11/branches-buds.html">my first version</a> I knitted a couple of years ago. A lot of stockinette in the round so yeah, the perfect holiday knit. I have also gotten used to knitting the sleeves attached to the bodice which I didn't like in the beginning because you have to carry the whole project around with you. But from my experience it just looks neater than attaching the sleeves later on.<br />
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I used some stashed Schachenmayr Merino yarn that was on sale in Veritas a while ago. While it is neither ethical nor organic I still feel like I'm coming back to this yarn regularly because I know it and it is so much easier to pick a colour if you can see it "in real life" instead of on the internet. I still have some leftovers that I made into a baby jumper which I will post later.<br />
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All in all an easy, no-fuss knit. I haven't been wearing the jumper a lot though so I'll see if it will survive in my wardrobe.<br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/branches--buds-pullover">Branches and Buds Pullover</a>" by Carrie Bostick Hoge, published in "Making" magazine<br />
Yarn: Schachenmayr Merino 120<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418988559508817876.post-90454297197447308002018-12-20T13:22:00.001+01:002018-12-20T13:22:31.995+01:00Glittertind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This jumper was in my ravelry queue for ages until I finally found the time and energy to tackle it (as a principle I never knit what's in my queue; and if I do it's for sure not the pattern that's on top). Also as a principle I don't use the correct yarn gauge which results most of the time in a wild guess concerning the size. But "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/glittertind-version-2">Glittertind</a>" made it!<br />
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For those who like the pattern it's by <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/designers/erika-guselius">Erika Guselius</a> ("Deathcuckoo" on ravelry or "Dödergök" on her blog) and, also as usual, I found inspiration on Clara's blog who knitted a cardigan for her daughter. I saw some other jumpers in the yellow-white colour combination that I liked a lot, for example the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saffran-cardigan">Saffran</a>" cardigan. I wouldn't usually have chosen it because I thought the contrast would be to weak but actually the pattern still stands out enough and is really pretty.<br />
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Nothing special to say about the knitting process, except that I have the impression the sleeves are set in a bit too low. But this might also be my fault in skipping the short rows to speed up the process. For now the jumper is still too big so I cannot tell how it will fit in practice.<br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/glittertind-version-2">Glittertind Version 2</a>" by Erika Guselius<br />
Yarn: Some reclaimed Cygnet DK (yellow) and leftover Rowan Pure Wool Worsted (white)<br />
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Even though this was not really a well-planned holiday it ended up being quite a roadtrip. The idea was to visit two good friends from Uni (who know each other but are not close friends) and who both had babies on Christmas Day - is that a coincidence or what? Anyways, the idea was to have a "get to know the babies" visit since we were all busy with our own new family additions.</div>
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This was extended to a cross-country roadtrip from Dover via Essex, London, Hampshire, and the Cotswolds to South Wales. From there we also visited Bristol and then back to Dover via Oxford. I feel quite accomplished, doing all this with a 5 months old baby! And it was actually less stressful than expected, we're lucky to have a baby that sleeps well in the car most of the time. </div>
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We visited many places that were new to me, too. I really liked Cardiff and Bristol, I almost wished I had studied there because they seem to be very vibrant student cities while not being too big at the same time. Of course we also enjoyed the phenomenal weather at the Essex seaside and Wales was the perfect destination to cool down a little bit while still having more sunshine than usual in this part of the world. London was great as usual (even though we had quite some rain but thank God for museums!) and I must say I forgot how pretty Oxford was. </div>
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Now we're back and we have filled up on takeaway curry, egg & cress sandwiches, fish & chips, and Fentiman's lemonades for a while. But since it was so easy to get there by car this was definitely not the last time we drive to the UK, unless of course BREXIT spoils the fun next year. </div>
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Surprisingly, I also managed to do a fair bit of knitting. I have now perfected the art of knitting in the car (as a passenger, obviously) to use my freetime as efficiently as possible. So far it works quite well, even though I have to recover the occasional dropped needle or an unravelled skein from under the seat. Above you can see the early stages of another "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/branches--buds-pullover">Branches & Buds</a>" jumper which is actually almost complete by the time I'm typing this. I'm still debating whether I should make it into a cardigan again, as I did with <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/branches--buds-pullover">my first version of this pattern</a>. </div>
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As with most patterns I like I tend to knit them again (and again, if I really like them). It just makes sense to go back to something that fits well and worked out the first time around, although in some cases I do the second knit because I learned from my mistakes. I also like it because for most patterns you can make sooooo many variations by only including small changes that it would take a long time to get bored of it.<br />
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In the case of "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marigold-cardigan">Marigold</a>" it was mainly because it fit well and I ended up wearing my first cardi a lot over the last winter. But because the alpaca yarn is extremely warm I also wanted one that I could wear in slightly warmer weather (i.e. above freezing point) and I still had this lovely light blue tweed in my stash. To make the tweed structure stand out even more I omitted the lace panel in the back, I didn't want to distract from the beautiful yarn and I also wanted to keep the cardigan as neutral as possible to match my other clothes.<br />
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Apart from the lace panel I also made the sleeves full-length and increased the button band (or however you call this if it doesn't have buttons) to 10 stitches in garter stitch. In the first version that I knitted according to the pattern the band keeps on flipping itself around so I wanted to make it a bit heavier. Not sure yet if that issue is solved though because the band is turning by design to make the transition in the neck.<br />
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Still a great pattern and I just realized that I now also fulfilled my self-imposed obligation to knit at least three pieces from the "Making" magazine to make it worth the shipping from the US. Score! And I'm especially proud to finish this project because I knitted it during my maternity leave and believe me, it was not easy to find the time with a screaming baby around. <br />
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Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marigold-cardigan">Marigold</a>" by Cecily Glowik MacDonald, published in "Making" Magazine, issue 1 "Flora"<br />
Yarn: Rowan Fine Tweed, colourway 380 "Nappa"<br />
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I've been to Paris many, many times. The first time I went was ca. 1998 on a school trip - it was also the first time I went to such a big city from our sleepy little town in Germany where I grew up. So it was exciting, that's for sure! I also have vivid memories of eating disgusting fries in the "Flunch" fast-food restaurant near Les Halles where the sparrows were flying in and out of the restaurant and sitting on the tables! That and our French teacher at the time telling us to avoid eye contact with "Arab men" on the metro "or else you wake up in a harem in Morocco" (don't get me wrong, she was a great teacher, but in retrospective maybe not exactly what you would call politically correct...).<br />
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But I survived the horrible food and was not abducted to Morocco and here I am, 20 years later, discovering a whole new side of Paris! As you can see from the photos, this new side is mainly green. I blame it on the baby but my main activity that week was walking. Walking, walking, walking through the entire city from park to park. We were super lucky because we had a hotel in the centre and the weather was excellent, not too hot and not too cold. Besides the obvious tourist attractions that I passed on my way (the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, etc.) I also discovered some new neighbourhoods and places that I liked a lot.<br />
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Those were my favourite spots and I'm sure I'll go back at some point:<br />
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1) <a href="https://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum-monument/71237/Coulee-verte-Rene-Dumont">Coulée Verte</a> (between Bastille and Gare de Lyon) - Paris' answer to NYC's High Line, this is an old railway viaduct turned into a beautiful green walk and leading to a park. Just be aware that there is no accessible entrance right at Bastille but you have to walk a few hundred metres further down where you can find a lift (useful information if you have a pram).<br />
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2) <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_des_Rosiers_%E2%80%93_Joseph-Migneret">Jardin des Rosiers Joseph Migneret</a> (10, Rue des Rosiers, Paris 4e) - The Marais itself is already a lovely break from Paris' general craziness but this park is like an oasis of calm and green in the city. The entrance is a bit hidden but I entered via Rue des Rosiers. Grab some picnic lunch for example at the Monoprix supermarket in Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and enjoy!<br />
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3) Champs du Mars (7e, Metro "Ecole Militaire") - Not exactly a secret as this is one of the most touristy spots of the whole of Paris BUT still totally worth it for the view of the Eiffel Tower! I got my bread and cheese on the way had a lovely lunch with Baby S. lying on his blanket in the grass. Surprisingly, if you dodge the groups of Spanish teenagers being loaded off the coaches you can find very nice spots in the shade - just be aware of dog poop!<br />
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Finally, I also managed to do a bit of knitting - my first project since baby arrived. It's going slowly but I'm progressing so by autumn it should be done for sure. It's another "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marigold-cardigan">Marigold</a>" cardigan from the "Making" magazine that <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/marigold-cardigan">I knit once before</a>. I bought the tweed yarn last summer in Estonia (the amazing wonderland that is Karnaluks!) and I'm glad I found a suitable project for it.<br />
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There were actually a few baby outfits that I finished knitting before Baby S. arrived but I never got round to posting them. I even drafted the post the day before his due date but then obviously things happened and the post was stuck in drafts ever since. As you can see in the photos it was even still snowing here! Difficult to imagine now that it is 30 degrees outside and it hasn't rained properly in weeks. <br />
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Apart from the socks, Baby S. hasn't actually had the opportunity to wear any of the other items because they are still too big. Come autumn he should have grown into them though. The socks were used quite a bit in the beginning because it was still cold (see the pictures above) and because they were nice and stretchy to fit over his itsy bitsy feet without struggling too much. The pattern is "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-socks-23">Baby Socks</a>" by Kate Atherly.<br />
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The striped cardigan is based on my all-time favourite "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (Top-down)</a>" pattern which I used many times before. There are probably better patterns around but now I got the hang of it and I could (almost) knit one in my sleep!<br />
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The matching stripey hat is the pattern "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/super-soft-merino-hats-for-everyone">Super Soft Merino Hats for Everyone</a>" by Purl Soho - although I actually used cotton yarn instead of merino. Ah well. <br />
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And the polka dot cardigan is the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hundreds">Hundreds</a>" pattern by Kelly van Niekerk. The intarsia knitting was a bit of a pain I have to admit, it looks nice now but it was quite annoying because the cotton yarn was so slippery. I note this down as lesson learned.<br />
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All projects can be found on <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl">my Ravelry page</a>.<br />
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<b>Socks:</b><br />
Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-socks-23">Baby Socks</a>" by Kate Atherly<br />
Yarn: Leftover sock yarn<br />
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<b>Striped cardigan:</b><br />
Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (Top-down)</a>"<br />
Yarn: Schachenmayr "Catania classic"<br />
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<b>Striped hat:</b><br />
Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/super-soft-merino-hats-for-everyone">Super Soft Merino Hats for Everyone</a>" by Purl Soho<br />
Yarn: Same as cardigan above <br />
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<b>Polka dot cardigan:</b><br />
Pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hundreds">Hundreds</a>" by Kelly van Niekerk<br />
Yarn: Natura cotton medium<br />
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Once I start, there's no stopping: I'm continuing my baby knit FO parade and there's more to come! I'm still a bit unsure about sizes but if I'm in doubt I'm always going for the bigger ones so that baby can still grow into it.<br />
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First one up is the "Little Waves" cardigan based on <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/la-grasse-matinee">this jumper</a> I knitted a few years ago and of which I still had some leftover yarn. Just enough for this cardi actually, I'm feeling so efficient using up all of my stash! The wave pattern is taken from Maria Carlander's "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/little-scallops">Little Scallop</a>s" hat, which is also still on my knitting list of future projects. The basic cardigan pattern is the same old "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (top down)</a>" pattern I've been using for most of my baby cardis. Originally, I was looking for boat-shaped buttons or anything maritime themed to match but couldn't find nice ones. For now the red ones are doing fine but I might change them later.<br />
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The second cardigan is constructed in a different way and knitted in one piece. The pattern is Drops' "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/b21-39-grey-gosling">Grey Gosling</a>" and it was fun to see how it all came together because the whole cardigan is knitted sideways and then folded in half and seamed under the arms and on the sides. I've read on other blogs that many people don't like the Drops patterns because they aren't well written but I didn't have any issues with the instructions. It was quite straight forward and I didn't make any alterations. I wanted some neon buttons to go with it but again, I couldn't find the right kind. So i opted for those which are more lime green actually than it looks like in the photos. Also, blocking was not so easy with the garter stitch and I didn't want to overstretch it. That's why it doesn't look very neat in the photos.<br />
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I don't have any matching hats yet but I'm still debating whether it'll be worth it with the summer coming up (hopefully) soon. At the moment I'm working on something else and trying a new thing for me: cotton yarn. More in the next post.<br />
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<b>"Little Waves" cardigan</b><br />
Basic pattern: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (top down)</a>"<br />
Incorporates: Maria Carlander's "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/little-scallops">Little Scallops</a>" hat<br />
Yarn: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/rowan-pure-wool-4ply">Rowan Pure Wool 4-ply</a><br />
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<b>"Grey Gosling" cardigan</b><br />
Pattern: Drops Design "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/b21-39-grey-gosling">Grey Gosling</a>"<br />
Yarn: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/schachenmayr-merino-extrafine-120">Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine 120</a>; colourway 192 (Medium Grey)</div>
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Another one of those lovely Purl Soho patterns! I had an eye on the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/colorful-wedges-baby-blanket">Colourful Wedges Baby Blanket</a>" for a long time, mainly because of the original colour scheme (see my previous post about this obsession of mine) and now finally the occasion has come.<br />
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Knitting blankets is usually not my favourite thing to do, actually I think it's a bit of a waste of time and yarn. To make a decent size blanket with decent yarn you have to spend a fortune and then you can't even wash it in most cases. Plus there are so many cute baby blankets available to buy (such as <a href="https://www.donnawilson.com/product/rainy-day-mini-blanket-bluewhite">this one for example</a> which I splurged on in a moment of weakness) that I'd rather spend my time on knitting teeny-weany clothes.<br />
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But this one is different! I had some yarn in my stash that I recycled from a scarf I knitted years ago - I still love the colours but the scarf was a bit meh. Perfect colour combination and amount for this baby blanket, almost as pretty as the original colour scheme.<br />
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After finishing the first wedge I realized that with casting on 130 stitches, I'm very very close to running out of yarn at the end. I just managed with the petrol coloured yarn but with the grey I was already playing "yarn chicken" and with the orange it was even tighter. So I decided to do the "wrap and turn" for the short rows every 5 stitches instead of every 4 stitches. That changes the shape of the wedges a little but I don't mind that.<br />
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Hooray, in the end I had just enough yarn to finish the blanket! <br />
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Finally, I got around to doing some knitting for the baby! And it's so much fun, producing those little clothes goes so fast I have already started a small collection. I haven't even managed to buy buttons for all the cardigans, that's why in this post I'm only showing the first part of my projects - there's more to come!<br />
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Mainly I'm knitting cardigans. I don't like jumpers myself and I imagine it will be easier to put a cardigan on the baby than trying to force something over its head. Rompers and trousers made from wool don't really seem practical to me, I think I'll stick to cotton ones that you can wash decently in the machine. So for now it's cardigans and hats/bonnets and I'm planning on knitting some socks, too.<br />
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My basic go-to pattern is the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan</a>" that I found on ravelry, it's the one I used for the green cardigan pictured above. It only comes in two sizes but with a variation of different yarns you can basically knit any size. And it's super easy and looks really neat with the regular raglan increase. You can customize it very easily and I've already made different versions with and without sleeves (see my projects <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">here</a> for example).<br />
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The red squirrel jumper is "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ntteliten-jumper-with-circular-yoke">Nøtteliten jumper with circular yoke</a>", also a free pattern on ravelry. I already made it once in the past but this time I steeked it and turned it into a cardigan. I'm very proud of myself that I even had the patience to sew on the ribbon to cover the steek border inside. But I admit it's also partly because I ran out of the red yarn (you can see the button band is also a bit on the narrow side) so I didn't have enough to secure the steek with a matching colour.<br />
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Finally, the bonnet is the Purl Soho "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-bonnet-15">Baby Bonnet</a>" pattern. I love Purl Soho yarns, especially their beautiful colour schemes, but I'm always too stingy to pay for the postage and taxes to order from the US. In this case it wasn't a problem because I still had enough yarn in my stash though. And the pattern was quite straight forward, too. Although I still couldn't figure out how to knit the attached iCord! In the end I just crocheted the border and the strings.<br />
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Patterns:<br />
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<li>"<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan</a>"</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ntteliten-jumper-with-circular-yoke">"Nøtteliten jumper with circular yoke"</a></li>
<li>"<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-bonnet-15">Baby Bonnet</a>" by Purl Soho</li>
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Various leftover bits from my stash, mainly the Michell's alpaca for the bonnet, some Lithuanian wool yarn for the red cardigan and some handspun merino for the green cardigan, contrasted with the same alpaca yarn mentioned above. </div>
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I had knitted the "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/changing-guards-at-buckingham-palace">Prince George vest</a>" once before but a lot has happened since so I when I got the request from a UK-based friend to knit another one for her baby I thought it was more fitting to call it "Brexit cardigan" this time!<br />
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I also free-styled a bit on the pattern, using only the chart for the intarsia work from the original vest. The cardigan is based on the classic "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan</a>" that I have used several times before. I still can't say that I'm a big fan of intarsia knitting, especially with more than two colours in the same round. But since the result is so cute it makes up for the difficulties.<br />
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I also like the contrasting buttons, which were not part of the original pattern.<br />
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Patterns: "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raglan-baby-cardigan-top-down">Raglan Baby Cardigan (top-down)</a>" and "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/changing-guards-at-buckingham-palace">Changing the guards at Buckingham Palace</a>" by Susan Crawford<br />
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Yarn: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/limbazu-tine-sia">Limbazu Tine Sia</a> (intarsia) and <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/teksrena-knitting-wool">Teksrena</a> (main colour) </div>
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Looking back over my past blogposts, I think the <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/08/praline.html">Praline cardigan</a> and the <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/05/birki-struggle-was-real.html">Birki cardigan</a> really stick out - Praline because it was fun to knit a garment which was constructed differently from my usual go-to patterns and Birki because it's just so comfy and pretty and I've worn it a lot (amongst others on my <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/07/estonia.html">Estonia</a>/<a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/07/finland.html">Finland</a> trip). And of course I loved the <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/12/palmetto.html">Palmetto cardigan</a>, I've been wearing it all the time this winter because it still fits me quite well during pregnancy - we'll have to see if I have to make some adjustments later on.<br />
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<li>The small stuff</li>
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I also knitted a lot of smaller items, especially baby stuff, that went to various friends who had babies this year. Many of them I forgot to document properly before giving them away and a couple of them are not posted yet but the <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/07/little-knits-alpaca-baby-vest.html">pink alpaca vest</a> was one of those projects. Good practice for knitting our own baby clothes!<br />
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<li>The one-off</li>
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Another project which I enjoyed a lot was knitting the <a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/06/tailwind-with-confetti-explosion.html">Tailwind shawl</a> with my hand-dyed "<a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/06/dyeing-speckled-yarn.html">confetti explosion</a>" yarn. In hindsight, the speckled yarn fad was exactly that: a fad. I'm still using the shawl if I need a bit of colour in the grey winter weather but honestly I'd rather stick to the boring old plain colours in the future, or at least a combination thereof.<br />
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<li>The loser</li>
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Clearly, this was the "<a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2017/03/the-yellow-sweater.html">Yellow sweater</a>". Even though I knitted it in my favourite Létt Lopi, the yellow never really matched the one in the pattern and, who am I kidding, I just don't do sweaters! The idea was to convert it into a cardigan eventually but I never got round to doing it. I'm also not convinced of the yoke shaping, it's a bit too wide for my taste. </div>
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<li>The unfinished</li>
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My "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/delft">Delft</a>" cardigan. Even though we visited Delft in the summer this did not boost my knitting mojo enough to really get down with this project. Actually, it was WAS finished at some point but the neckline was messed up and far too wide so I still have to unravel parts of the yoke. Urgh, I don't even want to think of those tiny stitches....</div>
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<li>The one that didn't survive</li>
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Oh, and last but not least one item that did sadly not survive 2017: my "<a href="https://mydailydoseofhappiness.blogspot.be/2016/04/green-tweed.html">Green Tweed</a>" cardigan got accidentally shrunk in the washing machine. At least I got a lot of wear out of it before we parted, and I have to admit that it was my own fault it got destroyed. I usually washed it in the wool cycle but in moment of confusion I told Thomas to put it in the 40 degree wash with all the other stuff - oops.<br />
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<li>What's next? </li>
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For 2018 I foresee a lot of baby knitting - if I manage to do any knitting at all! I still have some dream projects that I want to tackle but to be honest I prefer to wait until my body is back to its post-pregnancy shape (keeping my fingers crossed that my old stuff will still fit eventually!). But hey, you can always dream, for example of:<br />
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- <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/siri-4">Siri</a> - still top of my list, second year in a row!<br />
- Another <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/miette">Miette</a> - such a nice and easy pattern and fits really well<br />
- <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minetta">Minetta</a> - I already got the yarn waiting and it's soooo tempting<br />
- <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tabular-2">Tabular</a> - even though I don't like sweaters this pattern got my fingers itching<br />
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Happy knitting 2018!<br />
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For my birthday I got a subscription to Pom Pom magazine, something I had been thinking about for a long time but since it was a gift the decision was taken easily. In the first issue I received, the Autumn 2017 one, I immediatley spotted Emilia Jensen's "Palmetto" cardigan. I loved the colours as they were used in the magazine but since I still have a massive stash I decided to recycle some DK yarn from a frogged cardigan and some odds bits of leftover yarn in the contrasting colours.<br />
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I'm very pleased with the colour combination and also the overall outcome. It was really a pleasure following this pattern, very clear and easy to use. As I mentioned in a previous post, recently I've been using more and more professionally written patterns and it makes such a difference! I didn't realize how much rubbish patterns were on Ravelry until I got the direct comparison. Saying that, I still managed to mess up the German short rows on the shoulder stripes - I got it right in the back, but not the front. You can see in the photos that the transition from the yellow of the bodice to the shoulder strips is very bumpy and uneven. But then I figured it out as I went and didn't want to unravel it all.<br />
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The other small issue is that I blocked the cardigan so thoroughly after finishing that I over-blocked the sleeves and now they're a bit too long. I can still wear it but might make a small adjustment when I have enough motivation to pick up the project again. Also, I'm crossing my fingers that the cardi will still fit post baby-belly... I can't button it all the way down but around my chest it fits perfectly now which means it might be a bit too big once my boobs go back to normal size.<br />
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I can really recommend checking out<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Emiliasfuglie"> Emilia's ravelry page</a>, there't lots of great inspiration for future projects! I especially love the "Electric Pea" and the "Landskap" cardigans, can't wait for patterns of those to be published.<br />
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Pattern: Emilia Jensen - "<a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/palmetto-4">Palmetto</a>" cardigan published in <a href="https://www.pompommag.com/">Pom Pom Quarterly</a>, issue 22, Autumn 2017<br />
Yarn: Main colour recycled "Cygnet DK" from a frogged project; contrasting colours were leftover bits from my stash</div>
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What do you do if you have a week of holidays but not booked any trip and you really feel like doing something? Thanks to low-cost airlines, the answer is easy nowadays: check to where they have the cheapest flights and book! This is kind of what we did for the autumn holidays, except that we chose Bulgaria for one more reason, which is that neither us had been there before.<br />
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Originally, we wanted to go somewhere warm and sunny because the weather in Belgium had be so awful during the summer. But then we got a really nice September and October so we could be more flexible. I'm so happy we made it to Bulgaria, one more EU Member State to cross of my list - now only Portugal, Cyprus, and Slovenia are unvisited!<br />
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Since we booked quite late we didn't work out much of an itinerary but rather decided "on the go". We also got some great advice from some Bulgarian friends so we ended up a small road trip from Sofia, to Plovdiv, Veliko Târnovo, and back to Sofia. Our priorities were mainly: good food, relaxation, some nature, some culture. I think we got pretty much all of this and especially the food was no disappointment!<br />
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One thing I enjoyed especially and that I was quite surprised about were the amazing independent coffee shops that we found and where we spent quite some time. Some examples are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fabrikadaga/">Fabrika Daga</a> ("Rainbow Factory") and <a href="https://www.baristacoffeesofia.com/">Barista Coffee and More</a> in Sofia, and places like Monkey Bar in the the Kapana district in Plovdiv. Once we went to get coffee at Costa's and it was a huge disappointment - luke warm coffee, smelly seating area, dirty toilets. And it was about twice the price of a cup of coffee in the other, much nicer places! So if you are a coffee lover I definitely recommend going to Bulgaria.<br />
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We didn't even make it as far as the Black Sea coast but I spent a couple of days on the Romanian side of the border a few years ago and remember it was quite pleasant (except the Soviet era style resorts that were extremely crowded and didn't have any "natural" beaches). Maybe if we go back in the summer this will be an option, too.<br />
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And one quick knitting update: I made quite a bit of progress on my <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marie-Bxl/palmetto">Palmetto cardigan</a> and I'm enjoying it a lot. Hopefully I'll be able to post the finished project soon.<br />
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Soooo, it's official now: we're having a baby! I'm not using this as an excuse for not blogging regularly since forever but I can't deny that this has taken up a lot of space in my head over the past months, of course. First of all, the shock. This actually worked?! Then, the planning and the admin. Figuring out all these steps, especially in Brussels where you have a million choices for everything (Dutch- or French-speaking crèche? Dutch- or French-speaking hospital? Last name of the child?....) this is quite a challenge and we still haven't solved all these issues.<br />
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But of course it's first of all a happy time and we're looking forward to all the craziness and the changes that a baby will imply! And I'm personally of course also looking forward to having someone wearing all my hand-knitted baby clothes (luckily they cannot object too much to my fashion choices in the first couple of years at least).<br />
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Then we have some more changes coming up which are less pleasant - our flat is up for sale which means that we will probably be kicked out once the sale has been finalised. We already had quite a few people visiting the flat and they all seemed interested. Damn it, we shouldn't have put so much effort in decorating the place! It's only been two years that we live there and frankly I was hoping to stay for at least one more year, which is the minimum duration of our contract.<br />
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We haven't quite decided what we will do but we are looking pro-actively for a solution. I can imagine things that are more fun than moving house either when nine months pregnant or with a tiny baby but unfortunately it seems like we won't have much of a choice on this one...<br />
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Apart from that I'm really trying my best to keep this blog running. Bear with me, a lot of other things going on at the moment as you can imagine, but I'm committed!<br />
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Oh my, last post on this blog in ... August?! I didn't even notice that the time was passing so quickly, even though I've had it in the back of my head that I really, really should be back to blogging soon after the summer break.<br />
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Well, there are several reasons for this long break but one of them is certainly instagram; another reason I will write in another post soon. So, instagram happened in a moment of boredom and I immediately got hooked in spite of my initial reservations (the fact that I was already a very late starter didn't make those reservations smaller). Then I got really into it. And now I'm kind of out of it again.<br />
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I still think instagram is a great way to share visual information and for example I discovered some interesting calls for testknits which I would have never seen on Ravelry otherwise. But the main reason why I'm less busy with it now is mainly that it took the focus away from my beloved blog! And there are certainly many things that you cannot do with instagram that the blog can do. I have the impression that I'm not the only blogger that got sucked into this because many of the blogs I follow regularly are also updated less frequently or seem to be hibernating.<br />
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So I decided to turn my attention back to the blog, where I can go into more detail with many things and which I still like because it feels a little bit more "permanent" than the fleeting nature of likes and comments of instagram. Let's see how I get on!<br />
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For now, here are some snaps that we (because for many pictures I can actually not take credit myself) have taken over the summer months with our new camera - an investment that now only requires that we actually learn how to use it properly. </div>
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A slow summer allows for more reading! I actually started similar posts before but I never got round to publishing them - usually I was waiting to finish one more book to put on the list and by the time I finished, I had already started another one. Also, I don't have any logic or system to selecting my books but it's usually just what I have on top of my "unread" pile (currently surprisingly small).<br />
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My main criteria are that it should be 1) entertaining and 2) relatively light in physical terms so I can easily carry it around and read on the metro to work. This has unfortunately worked against some books, such as Murakami's 1Q84 trilogy which I bought last year but never got round to reading it because it is just too damn heavy! In hindsight it would have been better to buy each volume separately but that was just some saving on the wrong end.<br />
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Long story short, here are the books I've read over the last few months:<br />
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<li>Elena Ferrante - "My brilliant friend"</li>
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Quite liked it but I absolutely cannot agree with the general hype around her books. Yes it was a good read but I didn't like the characters very much and I kept on thinking "what is the point of this?". Maybe there will be a big revelation in book 2 or 3 but so far I didn't feel the need to continue reading. </div>
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<li>Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "Love in the times of cholera"</li>
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I used to love Garcia Marquez and I even had a newspaper clipping of him pinned on the noticeboard above my desk - which I actually took down and threw out after finishing "Love in the times of cholera". It doesn't have any of this mystical realism that makes "One hundred years of solitude" so amazing and in most places it's just gross and not at all what I expected. What did it for me was when the old guy, Florentino Aziza, starts an affair with a 14 (!!!) year old girl and thinks that is totally ok. Whatever this contributed to the storyline I don't know but the last part of the book I was just hoping that he wouldn't get together with Fermina Daza because he was simply an a**hole and didn't deserve a happy end. Well, maybe this is again me not liking the character and this might not be a very founded criticism of the entire book (I agree that the writing can still be good even if the characters are not likeable) but I just didn't enjoy reading it anymore. </div>
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<li>Ben Okri - "The famished road"</li>
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Didn't finish it. And this is one of the few books I didn't read until the end because I usually hope there's some redeeming turning point. It was just too confusing and abstract with the dream world being a little too crazy for my taste - but I can see why people like it and in general I could get into the "mood" of the book very easily. It just wasn't for me. </div>
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<li>Erich Maria Remarque - "All quiet on the western front" ["Im Westen nichts Neues"]</li>
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Now, this is a classic about which I can wholeheartedly say it deserves its place in the hall of fame of books in history. Personally I'm a pacifist so I thought this should be a compulsory read but for some reason I never got round to it, not even in high school. So I'm a bit late but I nevertheless really liked it and I think it brings across the horrors of WWI perfectly through the words of the young soldier who goes straight from the classroom to the Western front. Just thinking about it gives me shivers again: imagine nowadays a 17-year old young person being recruited by his/her teacher basically to go to certain death - and a not a nice death, that's for sure. In places it was very difficult for me to continue reading simply because of the awful scenes the author describes. But then again, I couldn't put it down because you want to know how things play out, even though (spoiler alert!) you already know that the narrator will die.</div>
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I picked this book up in a charity shop and when I went to pay the shop assistant already told me "I cried so much when reading this but it is so good!". This pretty much summarizes also my reading experience! I LOVED this book and it one of those stories that captures you from beginning to end plus you have the added benefit of learning about a chapter in West African history that I personally only had a very hazy notion of. Set in the Biafran war, the author does an amazing job of mixing the personal storylines with the political and historical facts and putting things into perspective. After reading this book you will look differently at those pictures of starving children and I think it really helps to put it into the right context. I'm not an expert on Nigerian politics but I'm pretty sure some of the conflicts today are also a result of this. Finally, another reason to read this book (if you need any more) is that there are not many young, female, well-known contemporary African writers so it is even more important to experience this new angle. </div>
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I got this book straight after finishing "Half of a yellow sun" because I didn't want the magic to stop! I was a bit surprised that "Americanah" is completely different, though. Different but not less good, actually. </div>
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<li>No-Violet Bulawayo - "We need new names"</li>
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I had been planning on reading this book since I visited Zimbabwe a few years ago and only now got round to it. In spite of what I just said, there are some other young, female, contemporary African writers and Bulawayo is one of them (even though she is much less known than Adichie). Even though the basic storyline is comparable to "Americanah" (a girl leaves Africa for the US), it is much darker in a way and displays strikingly the poverty and difficulties that people are trying to leave behind and start a new life in the US. That is, of course, not much easier as the narrator faces a life far away from most of her family as an illegal immigrant in the US. I liked it but compared to "Americanah" it was just a bit too rough for my taste.<br />
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<li>Jonas Gardell - "Torkar aldrig tarar utan handskar" (Trilogy)</li>
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Loved this trilogy. It's so well written and has such a personal touch to it that I read each book in less than three days. I didn't know Gardell and his previous work but he's famous in Sweden and he has been a gay rights activist for a long time, so the subject of the books - the start of the HIV/AIDS "epidemic" in Sweden in the 1980s - is well informed, I suppose. I liked it also because we mostly know about how HIV/AIDS became known in the US and the hysteria that it caused there. Personally I still remember all the information campaigns about safe sex at school in the early 90s, but in the small town where I'm from it seemed very far away and somehow unreal. Reading the story of a young gay couple, Rasmus and Benjamin, in Sweden in the 1980s and into the 1990s and how one of them dies from HIV/AIDS brings it really, really close to home. The family situations are described well so you can empathise with the protagonists and Gardell uses headlines from newspapers of the time to show how negative and hateful the public image of gay men was. HIV/AIDS which was described as the "gay plague" seemed to fit right into the awful public rethoric - and all that in a country like Sweden, which we often hail as so tolerant, open-minded, and advanced. The only tiny little criticism that I would like to make of Gardell's books is that he only and exclusively portrays HIV/AIDS as a problem of the male gay community, even though it must have affected women, too. Especially women that were brought in connection with prostitution when it turned out they were HIV positive, which must have caused an equally strong stigma for them. Also, I would have appreciated a connection to the views on HIV/AIDS today because many prejudices and stereotypes still exist - even though many issues are now played out on a different stage, far away on other continents. But I certainly don't want to discount the struggle for the rights of gay men and the specific issues of that community, since this was clearly to be chosen at the centre of the novels. Many more interesting novels could be written on this topic!<br />
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Now I'm looking for new books to read this autumn, any ideas are welcome!</div>
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