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The sleeves are finished and I’ve started on the body. Yarn used: 17 g + 25 g = 42 grams. Total use 245 grams.

Sleeves

Now they’ve been washed and are drying in my sauna.

This mess is the beginning of the jacket body. I’ve decided not to steek, so I’ll be knitting the body back and forth. The circular needle is the same length as the knitting. That’s another reason for knitting  back and forth.

Body start on curly circular

Today, on day 6, I will be away for a long time, so there will be less knitting. Sigh. My hands are starting to show signs of carpal tunnel syndrome, so maybe a pause is a good thing.  After all, I’ve knitted around 40 hours so far, five full working days.

Day 4 progress

The second sleeve is nearly finished. I’ve knitted 57 g, a total of 203 grams. I expected the sleeves to weigh 300 grams, but they will weigh 220 grams. This difference is mostly due to the Shetland yarn.

Day 3

First sleeve finished, 110 grams. The Shetland is much lighter than the Florica. Second sleeve started. 36 + 12 grams knitted, total 146 g. You can see the Knitting Olympics participant list here.

Still knitting first sleeve, 34 grams of yarn knitted, total 98 g. I’m a bit behind in my schedule.

Day 2

After being offline for nearly 3 days, I can finally start reporting on my Olympics knitting. I started with the sleeves, and this is the result of 1 day of knitting the first sleeve. Please note that as I’ve been suffering from hypothyreosis, due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, not being in balance due to insufficient medication, I’ve just knitted plain stocking stitch with the odd cable here and there. Knitting two-colored  work is now possible after starting onT3, or Liothyronine. But it’s so slow! 64 grams of yarn used.

Day 1 result

Dragonship sweater sleeve swatch

http://www.sandnesgarn.no/Strikkekurs.aspx?language=en

The One and Original Knitting Olympics

The new Olympic project

Team Finland Ravelympics logo

I wanted to join I joined, for the first time, the the Yarn Harlot in her traditional Knitting Olympics, as she is Canadian and has been doing these events since 2006. But she didn’t start in time, and Ravelry did. This means that I’m in the Ravelympics 2010 with the Sandnes Dragonship sweater, representing Team Finland. Following the original Yarn Harlot rules, I chose a project that will be a challenge to finish during the Winter Olympics. There isn’t any good picture on the Sandnes site, but I found one on Ravelry. Sorry, I haven’t asked for permission to publish that picture. The sweater depicts a Viking ship with mirror image. The pattern isn’t regular except for the sleeves, which I will start with, also to confirm the gauge. I’m lucky to have bought circulars in 3.25 mm and 3.75 mm, since neither 3.5 nor 4 mm gave the correct gauge, 22 sts on 10 cm/4 in. **The Yarn Harlot has started an Olympics project after all yesterday, and I joined that too! Yay!**

The yarns I’m using:

The blue yarn is Shetland DK from Jamieson & Smith, and the white is Novita Florica sport weight doubled.

I’m so waiting for the Olympics to start, although the ten hour time difference means I’d have to start knitting at 4 am on Saturday. I’m not that a knitwit, so will adapt to my own schedule. It also means that I have a lot of hours less to finish my project, since I’m not going to stay wake all night on the 1st of March for the Closing Ceremony!

Polly Jean socks

I, who thought I hate knitting socks, because they’re all the same, find myself liking the feel of hand knitted socks, and the variation of patterns out there. So this summer I’ve enjoyed knitting the Polly Jean socks among others.

Yarn: Hjertegarn 4-ply sock yarn

Needles: 2 mm set of 5 dp needles

I still have the much more time consuming, all twisted stitch Mermaid (Knitty) socks on the needles. Let’s see how long it will take to knit the second sock. The first one is at the grafting-the-toe stage.

Fick klart ett par Polly Jean-sockor i Hjertegarn på 2 mm strumpstickor, trots att jag trodde att jag inte gillar att sticka sockor. Men jag gillar ju att använda dem!

Sain valmiiksi Polly Jean-sukat, vaikka en uskonut pitäväni sukkien neulomisesta. Mutta pidän niiden käyttämisestä! Lanka on siis Hjertegarnin sukkalanka ja puikot 2 mm sukkapuikot.

The Aeolian lace shawl for my best friend at times of illness

Pattern source: http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring09/KSPATTaeolian.php

Yarn: 2/30s superfine merino yarn from my stash

Beads: size 10 and size 9 glass beads, also from my stash

Total weight of full size shawl: around 75 grams, of which 50 % beads.

Knitted on a 3.25 mm Addi Lace circular lace knitting needle.

Happy owner: My best friend, who first lost her husband and then got lung cancer.

I enjoyed very much knitting this shawl, and got to practise making of nupps.

Here it’s being blocked, doubled, since there was too little room to block it in one layer.

double blocking due to too little space available

Hej,

folk tycks ha gått över från stora uppslagsverk i bokform till att leta efter information på nätet. Därför har Schildts förlag lagt ut hela den nya upplagan om Finland, skrivet av proffs och därför pålitlig information, gratis på nätet!!! Kolla in dina kunskaper om Finland på svenska här.

If you’d like to read all about Finland in Swedish on the Internet, for free, and written by professionals, check this up: The Encyclopedia on Finland here.

Schildtin kustantamo on siirtänyt koko uusimman ruotsinkielisen tietosanakirjasarjansa Suomesta ilmaiseksi nettiin. Syy on se että ihmiset hakevat tietonsa mieluummin netistä kuin tietosanakirjasta. Kaikki artikkelit ovat asiantuntijoiden kirjoittamia.

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Jag har varit rätt tyst därför att jag tydligen fick en släng av svininfluensan. Ingen tar prov längre eftersom Finland inte anser sjukdomen vara allmänt farlig, så jag höll mej hemma i lugn och ro. Mitt immunförsvar tycktes jobba på i mer än två veckor, och jag blev aldrig riktigt sjuk.

Olen ollut melko hiljainen viime aikoina, koska ilmeisesti olen sairastanut sikainfluenssan. Kukaan ei enää ota kokeita, joten pysyin kotona kaikessa rauhassa ja katselin nauhoitettuja teeveeohjelmia. Immuunijärjestelmäni taisteli yli kahden viikon ajan, enkä sairastunut kunnolla, vain lievää kuumetta ja kurkkukipua sekä yleistä lihas- ja nivelkipua ja kovaa väsymystä.

I’ve been very quiet lately, because I’ve probably had the swine flu. Nobody makes tests any more, because Finland has decided it’s not a bad disease (still they start administering the vaccine in three weeks). So I stayed at home and watched tv. My immune system was fighting the flu for more than two weeks, and I never got really ill, just had a bit of fever, a sore throat and muscle and joint pain plus felt very tired.

“You are a very sensual person. You like to experience all the sights, smells, tastes and textures the world has to offer. Ordinary be damned, because you want to do it all.”