cowl finished !

I love colours !

That's why this yarn called out to me

(though it's polyester)

On top of that it's shiny

and easy to knit.

 A friend on Ravelry (who I met in a yarn shop !)

made a lovely cowl / shawl of it,

and as soon as I bought my skein, I remembered that.

I asked her how many stitches she had

and started right away

Mitered knitting is easy

because you never have more stitches on your needle

than at the start of every new block.

And NO sewing blocks together :

every new block starts at the side (or two sides)

of an old one !

(if you're interested, you can find the pattern here)

It's amazing : the colours of the second row

just fit so nicely next to each other ...

If I had meant it to be like that up front,

I would probably NOT have succeeded doing so !

The yarn did it all by itself !

Very happy with it !

Because there is a special birthday tomorrow

I made a little card for a friend

Stitching on "lutradur" with a thick thread on the bobbin,

fabric and paper underneath ...

Done 

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

*

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

*

Our two housemates

enjoyed a lot of autumn sunshine !

*

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