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The Madness!

So excited about sock madness 11! Go sock knitters! :) #knitting #sockmadness #strikke

A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out in Copenhagen munching cake and knocking back syrupy coffee with fellow yarny blogger Michelle, feeling overly excited and keeping a beady eye on Ravelry on my phone. Along with hundreds of eager sock-obsessed knitters across the globe, I was waiting for the first pattern to drop that marks the start of this year’s Sock Madness. Sock Madness is an intense…

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Sort that Stash! (Part 2)

Sort that Stash! a visual tutorial for stashing on @ravelry @brooklyntweed @cecilyam #knitting

Welcome to Sort That Stash- Part 2! This time we’re taking a step-by-step look at how to add whole skeins to your Ravelry Stash using the cleverness of Ravelry’s in-built database. This is a great resource whether you want to have a basic photographic reminder of what you have lying around, or whether you want to keep tabs of more detailed information and notes in one place. So Lets get started!…

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Sort that Stash! (Part 1)

Sort that Stash! (Part 1) How to organise and stash your lovely yarn on #Ravelry #knitting

Stash happens. Whether it creeps up on you over years- a skein here, a ball there – or is a result of too much excitement at yarn festivals, a lot of knitters suddenly find themselves living with at least one box or bag stuffed under the bed with yarn that they’ll DEFINATELY get round to knitting this year. I love my yarn stash. I appreciate that whether I am strapped for cash, feeling down or…

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#2017 #Craft #Denmark #How to #Knit #Knitting #organising #Ravelry #Stash #stashing #stashing yarn #storage #stress #Tutorial #Yarn #yarn stash

To some sock-crazy knitters, the first of March means only one thing- that the Madness is upon us once again! I’m talking of course about Sock Madness, an annual heated-but-friendly sock knitting frenzy based in the Sock Madness Forever group on Ravelry.

If you’re not familiar with the wondefully niche world of competitive sock knitting, well neither was I until about 15 months ago, when a lovely SM knitter joined our spinning group and infected us with sock fever via project photos of complex, weird, multi-coloured socks with constructions I’d never heard of (sideways!) and featuring mind-boggling detail and fancy stuff with beads. I’d rarely ventured beyond a vanilla sock so this was like…well, a bit like fresh green peppercorn berries in vanilla ice cream with hot figs, an dessert I had on my hols in Berlin this week- intriguing, possibly disgusting, but surprisingly delicious! I made up my mind to sign up and this year for SM10 I found myself doing the same.

Sign ups are through February and the competition gets going on March 1st with the release of a “qualifier” pattern. There’s 2 weeks to knit the socks, and if you manage to knit both then you get placed on a team. The patterns are all designed especially for the competition but are kept top secret. The competition then advances round by round, the patterns get tougher and the competition gradually gets whittled down until only the most insanely fast are left! In the end the winner recieves a stash of lovely donated prizes as well as the honour of being referred to in hushed, reverential whispers for all time :)

Our qualifying socks this year were the SlipStripeSpiral socks by Mylene Pijpers, which was a great plaid-effect 2 colour design I knit with some leftovers. For some reason, my brain had a fixed idea from some other pattern I’d knit that “slip purlwise” meant to hold the yarn in front, so I knit half a foot before realising my sock looked a bit wrong compared to everyone elses! You’d think that I’d learn from that lesson, but maddeningly I made EXACTLY the same mistake in knitting the heel of the round 2 socks, the gorgeous Rose and Thorn socks by Ronni Smith! Apart from that, I was really happy with how both patterns turned out- and especially proud of the new-to-my-socks techniques I learned. From the Rose and Thorn pattern: knitting with beads, a provisional cast on and picot edge, and from the SlipStripeSpiral socks: Japanese short rows. I heartily recommend joining in the competition next year if you love knitting socks and want to challenge yourself in an atmosphere of great support and comraderie :)

Happy Knitting!

Rosie x

Socks Galore! To some sock-crazy knitters, the first of March means only one thing- that the Madness is upon us once again!

Alt om Håndarbejde Festival 2016

New post! Alt om Håndarbejde Festival 2016 #knitting #copenhagen #aohmesse

Who doesn’t love a good yarn festival? An oppourtunity to be surrounded by knitty bretheren, perusing new and unusual fibres and fabrics, and generally indulging in fevered excitement about sticks and string! There’s surely no better way to spend a Saturday in Danish February. That’s what me and Michelle (fellow yarn lover and crochet/cross stitch addict of the Zhelle blog ) got up to at the…

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#Alt om Håndarbejde messe 2016 #Copenhagen #Craft #Funky Grandpa #Håndarbejde #København #Knitting #knitting festival Copenhagen #La Maison Rililie #Madeleine Tosh #På Pindene #Strik #strikke messe #Sy og Rens #Three Irish Girls #Yarn #Yarn Lovers #zhelle blog

Doodling and Dyeing

Doodling and Dyeing #knitting #strik #westknitsKAL #thedoodler

I finally finished my Doodler shawl this week! This was the Westknits 2015 Mystery Knit along (MKAL) that started in November last year. I’d been really looking forward to finally knitting one of Stephen West’s magnificent shawl designs, and it turned out all I needed was his fabulously camp promo video to get me casting on :) This was a fun and inventive shawl to knit and easier than it maybe…

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#fun knitting #Hand Dyeing Yarn #Håndarbejde #home dyeing #Knitting #knitting socks #MKAL #MKAL2015 #mystery knit alongs #self striping yarn #Strik #The Doodler #westknits

Sock Yarn Goodness and Knitolutions!

Sock yarn goodness and knitolutions! #knitting #strikning

We have a bowl of angel cards on our sofa table- these are little cards with different words printed on for meditation and/or more everyday purposes. I also use them each new year’s eve to choose a theme for the coming year. This year I picked the Truth angel, which feels helpful as unfortunately I’m starting the year with some stressful times. Among other things, I was thinking about how Truth…

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#Fredsminde Unika Design #Garn #Gotland Wool #Handspun #Håndarbejde #Knitting #knitting with leftovers #Knitwork #memory blanket #Raw wool #rå uld #Sock Yarn #spelsau sheep #Spinning #still light tunic #Strikning #tog and thel #TV Knitting #Veera Valimaki

Winter Knits (and annoyingly smug)!

Winter knitting has well and truly descended upon us, fellow crafters! Whether this feels like snowflakes on your nose and eyelashes or having an armful of slush sholved down the back of your neck, my thoughts are with you as, for once, I get to be annoyingly smug this year and done with the xmas knitting already! (sorry not sorry) :). This meant that I could turn back to projects I had going for…

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#Barley #Christmas Knitting 2015 #Creative Focus Worsted #Embla cardigan #Gift Knitting #Håndarbejde #Holiday Knitting 2015 #Icelandic Knitting #Islandske Strikkedage 2015 #Knitting #Knitting in a second language #lett lopi #lopi yarn #Rowan #Strik #Tin Can Knits

100% ACRYLIC is NOT 100% WOOL

November is Wovember! Here’s a brilliant post from Felicity Ford about the importance of wool, valuing knitters’ labour and THAT Innocent Smoothie Campaign…enjoy and share with other knitters in your network! X

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Intuitive Colour and Hand Dyed Forays!

I LOVE self striping yarn. Especially when I can turn it into a pair of tough cosy socks that will keep my feet happy through the winter and brighten up my day. For a long time, I’ve been thinking how lovely it would be if I could create my own hand dyed yarn. I have been playing with concentrated food dye which produces some lovely painterly effects during the setting stage, and in the last…

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#chain ply #choosing colours #Colour inspiration #colour palette #Hand Dyed Yarn #hand dyed yarn at home #Handspun #Håndarbejde #Knitting #Painting #self striping yarn #Sketchbook #Sock Yarn #Sockhead #spelsau wool #Spinding #Strik

Festival-orama! Part 2: Knitwork 2015

Festival-orama! Part 2: Knitwork 2015 #Knitting #Strik

This season seems to be bursting with all things knitty, and this year in Copenhagen was the start of something new and special: a knitting festival in the heart of the city! Knitwork 2015 was dreamt up by Kristina and Carsten, who in the months leading up to the festival got things revved up with a string of yarn bombing days and special pop-up events at unusual locations. The festival was…

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#Butik Spælsau #Copenhagen Yarn Lovers #Fredsminde Unika Design #København #Knitting #Knitting Copenhagen #Knitting Festival Denmark #Knitwork #Knitwork 2015 #Raw wool #Spælsau sheep #Spinning #Strik #Strik Festival 2015 #Vivian Hoxbrø

Homemade pumpkin spice syrup cooling! Recipe courtesy of onesweetmess.com @cc_almon @zhellen #pumpkinspice #Autumntreats

#autumntreats #pumpkinspice

Festival-orama! Part 1: Icelandic Knitting Fest 2015!

It’s autumn (hooray!) and knitting festival fever seems to happily be everywhere. Here in Copenhagen it’s been an exciting month, with the Icelandic Knitting Festival at Nordatlantans Brygge for the second year running, followed this past weekend by the brand new Knitwork festival, and in between, our spinning group did a whole day spinning demo for Worldwide Spin In Public Day at Lund central…

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#Einrum #Embla cardigan #Helene Magnusson #Hespa Yarn #Icelandic Knitting Festival #Islandske Strikkedage #Istex #Knitting #Knitting Copenhagen #Knitting Festivals Copenhagen #Knitwork #Ljómalind #Nordatlantans Brygge #plant dyed yarn #Strik København #Strikning #Worldwide Spin In Public Day 2015

It's a Wooly Miracle!

It's a Wooly Miracle! #knitting

I’m dead proud of myself for resisting the lure of new yarn (well, most of it anyway) in order to ACTUALLY FINISH some projects the last few weeks. It’s like the wooly Gods have granted me a small summer knitting miracle. Part of my strategy involved being away a bit (and therefore, away from most of the WIPS), with just 2 projects in my bag. I managed to get nearly all of it done and it only…

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Day 2: Bright. My man impressed me with his innovative DIY skills: reusing old bike brake cables to fashion a plant support! #GGKCRAFTYPAD

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Day 2: New. We finally found a companion (right) for our lonely chicken cushion (left) #GGKCRAFTYPAD #Friends #chickens

#ggkcraftypad #friends #chickens

Straight off the needles! #operationsockdrawer #knitting #fishlipskissheel

#fishlipskissheel #knitting #operationsockdrawer

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