Hari

Not only seem I to be interested in Japanese sewing patterns these days, I also seem to have developed a taste for Japan-inspired knitwear. This is what became of the gorgeous Madelinetosh Sock skeins I bought in London last November: Pattern: Hari by Olga Buraya-Kefelian Yarn: Madelinetosh Sock [Colour: Composition Book Grey] Needles: 2,5 mm

Lit Knit 1: Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett

So, here’s the first post in our Lit Knit series… In order to give some coherence to the entries in this series, they will follow a fixed pattern: First, there will be some basic information about the author, especially about her/his background. This may seem tedious, but if we want to examine how knitting is

Under the Red Sky

Before we kick off with our recently announced Lit Knit series, dedicated to knitting in fiction writing, here’s one more post about the real thing, about knitting in the real world. I just finished knitting this cowl/neckwarmer… …and what’s best is that I finished it in less than a week – after the long epic

Lit Knit: An Introduction

When [m] recently dug up her long forgotten Sleeping Beauty scarf, finished in January 2008, she mentioned something interesting to me: It was leftover yarn from this very project that I had used for my own first piece of knitting. And I’m not talking about my first finished garment here, but literally about my first

The scarf without a name

As you’ve heard or, more precisely, read, [m] didn’t get much knitting done over Christmas. Well, neither did I. Still, [m] managed to start the New Year by blogging about a finished piece of knitting. Well, guess what, so do I: This nice and warm and cosy scarf was a Christmas gift by our friend [j]

Sleeping Beauty [2007]

Oh, is it already 2011? High time for me to pop in again and relieve poor [c] who has entertained you the whole last month with his musings on Swiss cities, medieval art and his wonderful Christmas baking. Actually, by now I was hoping to be able to present to you my next finished knitting

Urban Outlaw

As some of you Ravellers have already noticed, my knitting production has slowed down noticeably during the last months. This happened because of more urgent life matters*, as I already explained elsewhere. However, in between getting a new job, preparing for a PhD interview, studying for an English exam and thinking about a paper I

[roadside cardigan]

On July 17 we posted our very first entry on this blog. Incidentally, on that same day I started knitting a cardigan for our friends’ [a] & [i]’s baby which was due in August. Last Tuesday, 123 days and 38 blog posts later, I finally finished it: Even the non-knitters among you will have gathered

Knit, drink and be merry

Last week for [m] and me was both busy and unremarkable so we neither had the time nor felt the urge to blog. Things changed, however, once the weekend was in sight, and Friday night saw us headed for the Café Rüdigerhof… …one of those old traditional Viennese coffeehouses. The Rüdigerhof is a fine art-nouveau

Two kinds of recipes

Remember that knitted baby cardigan I mentioned a few weeks ago? Well, I still haven’t finished it but at least the body is as good as done and practically all that’s missing now are the sleeves. By now it’s even recognizable as a cardigan which is something of an achievement considering that I more or