Step nº 3 - Keene Toddler Vest is READY!!!

Dear friends!

Yoohooooo! It's finished!

It's taken quite a long time to finish this vest, but I am SOOO happy about it. I will post it inmediately to my Raverly profile of course. And I also found a baby for it, so I can't wait to take photos of the baby wearing it, although it might be a bit big for him now, so we can wait for spring (it's actually very good for spring too, with a shirt under :) I really loved the pattern. I just had soo little time to do this, that I had to take spare half hours here and there to work on it!

The sewing and collar/sleeve "editing" might look a bit torturing from the outside... (see photo). Plus, I have never learned to use a circular, so I couldn't do the neck collar as per instructions. This means, I simply did the back collar separately and the front V-collar separately as well, and then I sew them together. You can't really notice from a distance, so... I guess I did the right thing! Sorry, still haven't found the time to learn the circular knitting... oh well! (This prevents me from undertaking a huge number of patterns, in fact!)

Soooo... here it is! The ribbon is a traditional Fla-Trademark, but is of course optional in case the mother doesn't like it. The vest is nice anyway as it is! It also feels nice with this PODIUM yarn I bought in Spain. Yoohoo! I also love the cables, etc etc :) The shaping was also OK, although I forgot the right/left-slanting factor and it could have looked even more perfect, but hey, I am human :) LOL!



Hope you like it!

Love,
Fla

Step nº 2 - Cable Sleeveless Cardigan...

Dear friends

sooooooooo... Front side is also ready! Not sure what will happen to the collar shaping! Oh well :) Will keep you posted... :) Must get this ready for the 18th December, for Masako's Baby! :)

Love,
Fla

A BIG ball!

Dear friends :)

Now... what should I do with this? ;) LOL! It really is BEAUTIFUL and DELUXE, but have NO idea what it is or what brand. Got the big cone from my Aunt and I turned it into a ball... must be at least 1kg, must be the perfect excuse to do something huge... any idea?!

Just began a baby pullover...

Dear friends!

Woooof, yet another baby pullover? Well, this one seems sooo nice! It's the Keene Toddler Vest (sleeveless) by Marilyn Losee, which I found on Ravelry.com (I am flavio83 there, by the way!) - I liked the idea to go back to cables, and the two-colour ribbing was just so sweet to see on the pattern, that I really wanted to give it a try. Plus, the smallest size (12-18 month-old) requires very little yarn! Yay :) Have a look at the pattern on-line, it's free :)

Well, I started it and I have the back, it was not so difficult to do actually, and the cables look OOOOH so nice. I had some trouble with the neck and arm shaping but, eventually, I did it. It's just, the pattern seems to forget that the decreasings require to break the cables at a certain point, at the very end... well, I hope I did it right :) I chose deep blue as CC and ivory or "broken white" as MC.

Hope you like it? :)
Love, Flavio

Autumn hat for the cousine

Dear friends!

A cousine of mine promised me a chocolate cake if I made her a hat. Well, that was easy to satisfy! I bought a lovely skein and used half of it to do this. I hadn't knit in a long time, I have to say, unfortunately. But here it is. I will use the rest of the skein to do a matching little magic scarf. I am in Germany rehearsing an opera and had little time for myself, but I found a HUUUUGE shop of yarn and... wow. I couldn't resist. Also, the cousine's hat was a good excuse!

OK; this is super bulky yarn. The girl at the shop said 9mm needles... I thought it was going to be too "transparent", if you know what I mean. So, I did the border in rib 2x2 but than doubled yarn for the rest of the hat, and it worked very fine! Well, I hope it's going to be liked by the cousine! LOL!

See you soon! :)

Love,
Flavio

I am alive, yes - Sleeveless autumn "over-all" pullover :)

Dear friends!

Yes, I am clearly still alive. I am so ashamed that I haven't posted a thing since December. It's really been a problem of time and... impulse. What I mean is: when you have a project on the needles and you start working on it... and when you start losing the inspiration and, eventually, the wishes to finish it... you know what I am talking about. This was on the needles since AUGUST 2008 (Geez). I had promised it. And little by little I tried to complete the back of the sweater. This extermely HARD pattern I got in Germany was twice as complicated to understand because it was in German, and I have learned to knit in English. So, go figure! Plus, the pattern was quite a complicated one with a lot of counting and reverse purling and stuff... yikes!

So, when I finished the back, it felt like a huge stone. But then, I had to do the front. I tried to use as many dead hours as possible (waiting during rehearsals, etc., causing the smiles and curious looks of my colleagues) -- and that was it. I really couldn't find the guts to go for the sleeves. It felt like it would have been ENDLESS. SO this is why I decided to take this off the needles and sew. Basta. Ciao. Just a sleeveless pullover, after all the super hard work on the pattern. It looks nice, especially since the shoulders were supposed to be weird in the pattern, with two slopes and button holes (!)... which I also camouflaged with kitsch yellow ribbons. Oh la la. C'est comme ça! --- So this is it, girls! I feel like I can start my knitting life again now. This project was like a curse on the needles. It prevented me from knitting anything else for months (except the armwarmers, see previous post) --- and I never felt like finishing it, so you see the results!

My blog friends must have thought I had quit the blog! I am so sorry :(

So, here it is. Hope you like it.

Please, give me a sign that you are still there reading this :)

Love,
Fla

I am alive! Wrist/arm warmers for Ilektra

Dear friends,

How are you doing? I know I have no excuse for not posting so often. Well, actually I have. I have so much to do in school, and I haven't been knitting THAT much. I have a baby pullover on the needles (bambú, 3mm) since middle August - and meanwhile I started a little project to approach knitting again. My Greek colleague Ilektra wanted some nice armwarmers. I found this pattern (quite nice!) - and we chose a lovely "cream/ivory" yarn. Will put more details on Ravelry :)

Also, I found the pattern quite nice and good looking. It wasn't difficult at all, I just had to find time to do it... like, 10 rows every day... yes, it took forever.

I hope you like the photos :) And sorry again for not being so present... Lots of love!

Fla

Ok I am terrible... sorry

Dear friends,

Wow, it's been a while, heh. I have been so terribly busy. Bachelor concert, other concerts, an opera during August... I have been really so busy that I haven't been able to knit anything. I felt terrible about that. When I was in Germany, I bought needles and yarn and now I am doing a baby sweater. A nice pattern, I will post some pics soon! For the moment being, here is some pics that I got from January (!!), with little Aitana wearing the lovely sleeveless version of the TRELLIS jacket. Jon appears in one of the pictures, holding the baby :) She is sweet, isn't she? :)


I hope you like the pics. It's great to see the little babies wearing the things I have knitted especially for them! :)

By the way, I am on Ravelry as well... in case you wondered ;)


Love,
Fla