knitting again ...

The last day of  October  already

and although actually we are not into Halloween over here

I thought this lady is suited for this day

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I'm knitting again !

But first I frogged a try-out with the lovely coloured

Rowan kidsilk haze stripe and some Drops alpaca,

the two didn't work well together.

I bought some new light blue Drops kidsilk to go with the Rowan.

Then I picked up the mitered vest,

that was kind of hibernating for a long time,

and started knitting ...

At least, that's what I wanted

but I had to do some serious reading

before I remembered again

how to do the pattern

I think it must be old age:

because I didn't know with how many stitches to start with,

what to do with the first and the last stitch on the row ...

and I had done already quite a bit ! 

And I have done a vest just like that before !!!

But luckily the magazine was still there  ;-)

( yes, from  looooong ago )

I remember people asking when I was wearing the blue vest

( that I did before ... but gave away to a friend ) 

if I sewed all the little parts together ?

NO

you don't have to

and this clever way to do it, was all in the magazine !

( Nowadays you can also find similar patterns

for mitered knitting on "Ravelry" )

HA ... and the fun part is

that you never have more than 25 stitches on your needle

(or 49 stitches when I make the bigger squares) 

The back and side pieces are finished so I could start on the front

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Our two housemates

enjoyed a lot of autumn sunshine !

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The last fun thing for today was brought by the post

a huge bag "mit Liebe verpackt" with wool I ordered in Germany

( I'll probably take part in a Christmas fair in the village

so there has to be done some serious felting ! )

Ohhh, we had a very clear sky last night

so there was still the beautiful moon

is a dragon blue or red ....

The year of the dragon is already a bit on it's way

but a good week ago

I found the dragon to go with it.

( I had bought two of them earlier, but both became a present )

I very much love the bright colours !

And he goes so well with the dragon

( or winged snake Naga )

I bought almost 20 years ago on Bali !!!

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The warm colours of Naga will be mirrored

in the knitting I started this week.

The two skeins of the Araucania wool were in a drawer

for some time, and all the other reds that I wanted to use together with it.

( the colours look a bit more pink then they really are )

I will knit a little vest in the "Horst Schulz" way :  module knitting.

This technique was explained in the 5/1993 and 2/1994 issue

of the Dutch needle craft magazine "Handwerken zonder Grenzen"

And this is what the vest will look like, only in a different colour

( this one I gave to my dear friend M, it fitted her better than me ... )

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So ....  there are a LOT more little squares to be knit !