The next winter will come around for sure ... hopefully not too soon

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Due to the cold snap in the middle of August I felt like knitting gloves for winter.

The pattern has been on my Ravelry queue for a long time. One of the reasons I hesitated to start this project was that there has been no gauge and I was afraid that they wouldn't fit. I had to make some adaptions to make them fit. You can find my gauge and the directions for my adaptions below, maybe this helps others who are hesitating for similar reasons.

My gauge for 10 x 10 cm is 14 stitches and 20 rows in stockinette stitch.

I started according to the pattern "Knubbelige Fäustlinge à la Ally McBeal" of Ehefrau. When I reached row 28 (according to the pattern in this row the decrease starts) I noticed that my fingers must be longer than the designers fingers.

That's why I decided to add an additional cable, in detail:

Pass row 28/29 cable (according to pattern)
Row 29 to 35 in pattern (without decrease)
Row 36 decrease (according to pattern row 29)
Row 37 decrease (according to pattern row 31)
Pass row 38/39 cable (and decrease in addition)
Overall I knitted 40 rows, broke yarn, draw through the 9 remaining stitches and pulled tight.

For the thumb I knitted 11 rows and one additional row with decrease according to the pattern.

The outcome is very warm and cuddly and if I weren't hoping for a warm autumn, it would be a shame that this pair of mittens has to wait for it's use for a long time :-)

Project details at a glance: 

Pattern: Fäustlinge à la Ally McBeal
Yarn: Steinbach Wolle Ornella; color 019
Needles: 6 mm circular needles
Gauge: 10x10 cm = 14 stitches x 20 rows in stockinette stitch

Here you can find the mittens at ravelry.com

The "Debt Hat"

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In October 2012 I promised my brother to knit this hat for him. I bought the yarn and made the gauge but against all my good intentions I didn't knit it until now - that's why I gave it this name. Now, that I had time to knit again this nice hat was finished within two days :-)

The new technique I tried (successfully I think) in this project was to knit jogless strips. Thanks to the explanation and video on Alexis Winslows blog (KNIT darling) I am proud to present my first knit without jogs:

This is the finished hat:

Project details at a glance: 

Pattern: Strib Hat
Yarn: Lana Grossa Bingo; color 024, 120 & 136
Needles: 4,5 mm circular needles
Gauge: 2,5 cm (1 inch) = 5 stitches x 7 rows
Here you can find this hat at ravelry.com

Bride & Groom

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Today I present to you a small project I knitted as a wedding present: Bridal couple finger puppets.

Because only small amounts of yarn are needed this is an ideal project to use leftovers up. For the veil I used offcut of my own wedding dress. As I am very happily married I think this is a lucky omen :-)

Nevertheless my stitching skills could use some improvement, I think for the first attempt it's not that bad ;-)

Project details on a glance:

Pattern: Basic Finger Puppet
Yarn: Leftovers
Needles: 5 x 3mm double pointed needles
I skiped the gauge for this projekt

Here you can find the bridal couple on ravelry.com

I am back :-)

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The last two year I have been very busy with my studies, that's why I didn't have time to knit. This is also the reason why nothing happened here. Now I'm back to the needles :-)

My warm-up project was this lace cowl. The yarns are leftovers from the iPad cover I knitted some time ago. That is also the reason why I chose to knit the pattern in two colors - I simply didn't have enough of one color ;-)

I decided for knitted button holes and chose pearly buttons:

Not too bad for my first lace knitting, isn't it?

Project details on a glance:

Pattern: Gothic Lace Cowl
Yarn: Lana Grossa Bingo; color 124 & 208
Needles: 2 x 5 mm
Gauge: 10 cm = 18 stitches x 24 rows

Here you can find my cowl on ravelry.com