knits by toveb

spin me right round

I'm selling my spinning wheel, if anyone is interested. It's an old piece, but works fine. To the untrained spinner (=me) it seems like a fairly quick machine.

 
 

almost there!

 

 
I worked the final rows of the pockets on Friday and now I just have to trim all the ends, sew on a button and maybe block a little. I'll try to take a photo of me wearing the cardigan also. May I say I am mighty pleased with myself!

bye then

 
Recently, two local yarns stores have closed. First it was Nysta, who are closing the shop but remaining in business as a wholesaler (for Debbie Bliss in Sweden) and for the occasional café/workshop. The other one is Knitlab, a shop I never really visited that much even though they had some lovely yarn. They were the only ones in Stockholm who had Blue Sky Alpaca and Habu. Their last day is tomorrow, Saturday.

I went there and scored some allhemp3 from Hemp for Knitting. 8 skeins, actually... Looking through Ravelry for inspiration I couldn't find much, but I'm hoping it will work for a Flowerbasket style shawl. Otherwise, I'll have a whole lot of dish cloths on my hands.

some link tips

I've recently been eyeing these two sites for fabulous fabrics. You can create your own, which is then part of a voting process and finally printed, if you're lucky.

BonBonKakku
Spoonflower

colourworks

 
I've started on the Thistle shawl using Visjö in two colours. The chart is from Norsk strikkedesin, so I'm calling my shawl the Thistle Winter Night shawl. Hah.