Cumulus

My Cumulus finally got dry so I could wear it and take pictures. My guestroom/sewingroom/yarnstashroom as been smelling like wet sheep for days while it has been drying flat on the bed in there.

Malawi is making sure we are doing it right.

I must say this was a very nice knit, once I got the yarn right. The pattern is from Annette Danielsen's book "Strik Naturligvis", a book full of nice knitable designs! And her patterns are very easy to follow, with new and exciting constructions, with a minimum of stitching at the end. We like that, don't we?

Here you start by knitting the braid across the shoulders, before you pick up stitches and continue knitting down the body, leaving stitches for the sleeves on hold.

 I was very happy when I found the buttons for this jacket.

They even look like something called "Cumulus", those buttons :)

Pattern: Cumulus by Annette Danielsen from Strik Naturligvis
Yarn: Two strands Drops alpaca and one strand Sandnes Tove, knit together.
Needles: 7mm
Ravelled here.
Here are some photos of the vest from this blog post, now with me in it so you can see how it looks with a person :) Mira and Yeela wants you to know how the vest looks next to a dog.

I've started another project from Strik Naturligvis. Årringe. That is, I've started another project again. The first time I started it, I joined to knit in the round and managed to twist it. Not only one twist, but two! And I didn't realise it before I had done several rounds! Very annoying. So now I've started it again, this time knitting back and forth a couple of rows before I join to knit in the round. When I finally get going with it, it will be my mindless summer cotton knit. (With a little bit of gold to sparkle things up a bit)

My not so mindless silk blend summer knit is coming along fine. Just over halfway on the edging for the Rock Island shawl. You can see the stitch marker there. That's my halfway mark.

This morning I saved a tiny bird from the cat. He had brought it inside, and it was sitting on the bed in my guestroom/sewingroom/yarnstashroom, looking terrified, and the cat lurking next to it, just waiting for the bird to make a run for it so he could catch it again. It was a good thing I had already moved the cumulus from the bed! I took the bird and carried it outside, and locked the cat up, giving the bird a cance to catch his breath before it went on it's way again. The bird left these feathers behind. I hope he made it through and has learned to stay away from cats.

Up to now I have been blogging in English, but I'm thinking of going Norwegian in here. Most of my readers seems to be Norwegian, at least they are the ones leaving comments. So unless I have some silent english-speaking readers who would like for me to continue in english (now is your chance to speak up and let your voice be heard) the next post will be in Norwegian :)