Sweater Hound

So I have realised my blog has become one big hommage to knitted sweaters.

Aidez, Maxfield, Silver Jacket, the sock monkey one I plan to invent one day and yes, I have started yet another sweater. But first...

Here is my finished Maxfield. As it's been weeks and Ive been wearing it and have not posted anything! I guess because when I post on Instagram I get instant likes and feel like I've shared and then the blog has fallen by the wayside. (Me on Instagram = sfknits)

And the new one? The Blueberry yarn arrived and after paying an arm and a leg in customs (about $30) I finally got my hands on my alpaca amazingness. I can happily say Berroco Ultra Alpaca is super super super Ultra. The name doesn't lie, the price is amazing; I think I'm in love. Cables are super quick to knit, and I kinda love this pattern (Amanda Cardigan; Lene Holme Samsoe).  I really hope it becomes the most amazing sweater in the world! 

I really think I need to pull my real camera out and actually photograph this stuff....

friday nights in

I love a good Friday night in. Usually, after working all week I am not in the mood to go out on a Friday.

Today I set to work on my Maxfield, sorting out which colours to use. I have two balls yellow, one gold and one light orange... and chose to use the two I have the least amount of yarn for. Perhaps not my brightest moment, but the pattern only calls for two balls of the contrast colour, so lets just hope it all works out in the end!

I am using larger than called for needles, as I knit really tightly. Its a bit bigger than gauge, but this means that if I somehow shrink this baby it will still all be okay!

And voila! I think I might be in love already!

More Knitten Mittens

I love mittens. Especially ones I could possibly wear at work on cold days, so Fingerless are the best!

Here is the first of the "My own design" ones!

I love that these have turned out so well! Im going to be selling them on facebook under the name This Girl Knits at the end of August and anything that doesn't sell then will go on Etsy when Im back from my Canadian holiday in the first two weeks of Sept!

The link to the original mitten pattern is here : http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/endpaper-mitts

Link to my pattern is here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/heart-endpaper-mittens

And the link to them for sale on Etsy here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/82760711/hand-knit-heart-fingerless-mittens