La Tricoteuse Bretonne

Miles and more

I just recieved my membership card for the program *miles and more* from a flight company, and this is what came to my mind as i had to type the title for this entry. The main reason for this is that i have the impression to be knitting miles and miles of stockinette for the project I am now going to start the last piece.
Worse, i have to cencentrate, as i often do mistakes (when am i not doing any could be a problematic question to answer, it's true), by knitting the stitch below the one i am suppose to, creating an unesthetic hole as i do so. I've been ripping on this project, once again. But not that much, so i'm looking forward starting on knitting through the main piece number 2 of the cardi i've started during the summer. Optimistic as i am, i didn't have the idea that knitting the front of such a cardigan could be so long, and represent so many stitches, even though it is quite obvious from the picture.

I had started with this special yarn i bought in Aachen last spring, like some go to an adventure. I had knit a swatch of this Cahsmere Flavour from Noro, a yarn which is sold under the Görg und Görg label and this was the only prep i did. I had no idea how many grams, or how many meters i had.

Like, so.

I've been lucky because after knitting one front, the back, and the 2 sleeves, i had still a little bit of yarn. Not enough to knit the second front, but the lenghth of the yarn had been quite impressive. As i returned to Brussels I weighted this time on my little ikea balance which has a gram graduation, and saw that out of 100 grams, i still had 10. The first front weighting about 30 grams .

So last week-end when we were in Aachen with Sophie
and a non-knitting friend, my only purchase for myself was 50 grams of the precious yarn. I also got a bit more yarn, but not for me! Unemployment means diminished resources, and honestly, my stash can help me go through a lot of knitting. So i enjoyed this shop very much, i was glad to be with another knitter who was buying, and to push my non-knitting friend to come back to it (well i didn't push her that much, she was running into the walls of beautifully coloured wool anyway with huge eyes and *hungry fingers* - I guess that makes her an even better friend :-) ).

So now, off to some miles long stockinette :

Monday morning rigolade

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l'accessoire qui me manquait pour profiter à nouveau des salles de ciné sans pour autant abandonner mon passe-temps favori!!!

trouvé chez nakeidknits

The end of the long Knit Along

Finally, my long lasting denim knitalong is finished, and i can face the future with a lighter back. Only a bit lighter, mind you, because i have quite a few WIPs which still have to be examined, restarted, and hopefully...finished. But for the moment, I will happily enjoy the latest FO.
Behind it hide quite a few stories, deceits, surprises and abandon, but i am so happy it has a good ending! I started it august 2004, finished in September 2006, so it took me a bit more than 2 years. Only.

All in all, what i had the most difficulty with were the fronts. I was definitely not concentrated enough to follow or understand, or both of them, the pattern, so i had to rip each front 3 times when arriving at the armholes.
But i really, really like the result. I didn't stop wearing it since the last bit of the finishing a week ago with the zipper was done. To sew the zipper in, I followed the very good Chick Knit tutorial , which helped me to prevent another mistake, another ripping-unsewing. Ouf, this was close...

I know it's kind of weird that I don't stop wearing it, and that I wasn't caught on a picture with my newly-finished Bomber, esp as we had a twice a Stitch&Bitch at my place, and that we went touristy two days ago...but I keep my chances open, and as soon as I have a showable picture of me & my new favourite FO, it will be shown.
True, the knitting was long, true, I had blue fingers all along. But my needles didn't get blue, as I used inox needles, and as i followed all Polly's good advices (en françaisici ), I didn't have bad surprises. The knitting took so long, because these pockets were difficult for me, I never had done any like them, but it was worth the effort, and that is maybe what I like the most of it. Or is it the colour? Or the nice touch? Or the fact that i finished it? I LOVE MY BOMBER!!!! Well now, i guess i was clear enough...

To resume :

Pattern : Bomber , from Denim People.
Yarn : denim from Rowan, shade Nashville (the darkest, as i wanted the blue fingers), 17 balls (one more than stated, because of the changes i did).
Size : L, fits medium me.
Changes : added 5 pre-shrink centimers in the lenghth of the body.

Now on my needles :

Shriek , from the Rowan Mag n°32. Detail of the wonky stitches here

This weekend on Saturday, went to Aachen with Sophie and a non-knitting (there is hope there), non-blogging friend, for a bit of tourism, shopping, and a visit to Bomber where I had previously bought the lace Noro I was short of some 30 grams. SoOOO only a few kilometers of stocking stitch to go to finish the cardi....

P.S. : I thought that after the 100th i could try it in English. Feel free to correct my mistakes...

100ème!

Pour la centième entrée du blog, une petite équation toute simple et laineuse.

Un bord de montage d'écharpe qui ne me plaît pas...

Des pompons...

Ca donne un clown !

Ou encore, une jolie écharpe bien chaude et vite faite.

Point utilisé : côtes anglaises sur une trentaine de mailles.
Fil : Kid Classic de Rowan, 2 pelotes rouge, 1 pelote marron.

Je ne savais plus faire les pompons! Il a fallu que je retrouve sur internet une explication. Je crois qu'il n'est pas necessaire que je vous donne le lien, parce que je crois que je suis la seule à avoir oublié quelque chose d'aussi simple. Et même dans la réalisation des pompons je m'y suis prise comme un pied, j'ai failli perdre la moitié des brins. Au final j'y suis arrivée et je suis bien contente je la trouve super comme ça. Même si la laine utilisée donne des pompons un peu mous, et qu'il va falloir que je fasse attention à ce qu'il ne s'écrasent pas. J'aime bien aussi le choix de côtes anglaises qui conservent les côtes, tout en roulant (à quoi j'ai pensé ce jour-là?). L'avantage c'est que l'écharpe est un peu "boudin" et que ça va bien avec les pompons.

Le tricot sur le gilet en Noro a bien avancé, je suis maintenant à court de fil. Il faut donc que je retourne à Aix-la-Chapelle, qui est heureusement seulement à environ une heure et demie d'ici. C'est chez Görg ung Görg que je l'avais acheté, et je les ai appelés, ils en ont encore. Ouf!

Maintenant que je suis rentrée à Bruxelles, sans Suki, elle me manque.