Thelma's Ishbel

Today is the start of Miss T's Easter holiday. But it also marked the last day with her lovely teacher Thelma.
She has started her retirement today.
To mark the occasion I have knitted Ishbel for her.

Miss T told me that her teacher likes purple.
I used a skein of Malabrigo sock yarn. It's a lovely 100% Merino superwash yarn. We choose the colour Abril.
The pattern is Ishbel by Ysolda.
I knit this pattern the second time. Again it was a lovely pattern to knit.
Thelma is very happy with her gift. She loves the way it looks worn, the feel of it and the colour.
Glad my little Miss T made a good choice.
I am finishing a few smaller projects, socks, squares for Japan and getting yarn ready with beads for my next big project.

Squares for Japan

A few days ago, I came across this blog written by Amii.
Her and other knitters are knitting squares to make blankets for Japan.
The knitters have also started a group called
Homemade Hugs over on Facebook.
So far I have knitted three squares and have the yarn ready for a fourth.
The green and red are knit with Rowan Pure Wool DK and the blue is with Noro Silk Garden.
It's also a great way to use up single balls of yarn.
Maybe I should call it Stashbusting for Japan.

Third of 12in2011

During our week in Switzerland I had a lot of knitting time. I took my half finished shawl with me and yarn for a pair of socks.

I finished the Trinity shawl. I found the pattern whilst looking at the other finished objects in the Ravelry group for 12in2011. I had the skein of sock yarn in my stash for a few years. It's blue faced leicester sock yarn from Skeins.
I must have bought the yarn to knit socks for my daugther. Yes, when I had just the one daughter.

The colour is a nice mix of different shades pink.

I finished the project in Klosters and managed to pin it out on an ironing board, it took me two days.

The pattern is avalaible on the p-hop website.

p-hop stands for pennies per hour of pleasure. I will try and figure out how long it took me to knit this shawl. I added more repeats. It was a pleasure to knit.

A great way to use up sock yarn. I used up around 90gr.
Today is a nice sunny day, perfect to take some photos and to hang the laundry outside.

I knit a pair of socks for my Miss N, she is using them already. I must remember to take some photos when she is home.

I seem to be a bit on a lace trip, my next project is Ishbel. I am knitting her for Miss T's teacher.

I want to start another project for 12in2011. Lucky I have a blog post to tell me what I could knit next. I want to keep a little ahead of time, maybe some projects will take more than a month to knit.

Knitting and skiing in Klosters

Does Klosters, Switzerland have one of the best yarn stores?
I think it does, it's called Mystitch Cafe. It's a yarn store/coffee shop.
Really what more could I have wanted? It has no website, but it's right next to the train station. I could see the trains coming and going while I spend some time, browsing the yarn selection, drinking coffee and knitting.



Oh and some shopping, naturally.
I bought five skeins of sock yarn, two from the shop and three from another shop. Amazing how such a small town can have to stores that sell yarn. The second is a undergarment shop with a selection of Swiss sock yarn and other haberdashery items.
Mystitch has a big selection of Knitpro needles and I found the Sockenkompass, a nifty gadget for sock knitters. It tell me, cast on, heel stitches and other measurments to knit socks in Regia 4 or 6 ply, from sizes 22-47, I think that's UK 4 (toddler) to 13 (mens).



While spend time in the yarnstore, Miss T spend some time in Ski school, sadly my Dad was very unwell and had to spend 4 days indoors.
I had to keep the little Miss busy.
She loved it, not once did she cry or moan.
Even though it was bad weather for three days. She still went and enjoyed it all.
The little kids are in a closed of area, called the Snowgarden. Everything is very child friendly, the teachers are great.
Miss T went in the mornings, I picked her up for lunch and we went back to see my Dad, after lunch I took her back to ski school.
He was happy to see us and I think glad that Miss T had something to do. Skiing did tire her and she went to bed early.
I did manage to knit a lot. More of that later.