ASPLUND KNITS

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Mr Mosaic

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Mosaic knitting has given me ideas - I've been experimenting with hats knitted sideways, combining mosaic knitting and garter stitch. No...
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Thursday, 10 December 2015

Mosaic sweater progress

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It took some thinking and rethinking (not to mention knitting and reknitting) before I made up my mind about the sleeves. I decided pa...
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Wednesday, 18 November 2015

The explorer

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At long last I'm working on a mosaic knitting project. I've been interested in using the technique beyond swatches for quite a few y...
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Thursday, 22 October 2015

The orange cast of thought

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The cardigan I wrote about in my previous post is finished. I liked the wool a lot, Yaku from CaMaRose . It was sligthly worrying when I was...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Uncle Asplund

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Earlier this week I suddenly had to drop all my works in progress and get some new wool. A friend of mine wrote to tell me he and his wife a...
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Monday, 12 October 2015

The accidental lens louse

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A few days a week I work in a yarn store - today a customer surprised me by handing me a crossword featuring a photo from one of my workshop...
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Saturday, 3 October 2015

Busy September

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Where did September go? In my case mainly workshops! Not only the workshops themselves, but also planning them. For example, even though st...
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Saturday, 22 August 2015

Wool spa

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My feet never felt better than after an opportunity to "tread wool" at Skansen this afternoon. Fulling is the correct word in Engl...
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Friday, 14 August 2015

Four

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What better way to spend a sunny Thursday off work than a daytrip to an island in the archipelago with Born to knit ? The tricky question wa...
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Monday, 10 August 2015

Dear old Fingers

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One of the first Marianne Isager designs I knitted was the "Fingers" sweaters almost 20 years ago. (Ravelry link here .) At the ti...
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Friday, 10 July 2015

Back on track

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Calling it an identity crisis would be an exaggeration of scandalous proportions, but someone who doesn't feel like knitting doesn't...
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Saturday, 4 July 2015

My new best mate

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Isn't this description irresistible? I love word formation like hand-holdable! A 50% discount doesn't make matters worse either. ...
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Monday, 25 May 2015

A sleeve detour

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What counts as the birth of a project, the immaculate conception (needles meet wool) or cutting the last string? Well, in this particular ca...
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Saturday, 11 April 2015

Good Friday

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was Best Possible Friday. I sat indoors all day with yet another sweater project - that's what terrible weather is for. About a year ago...
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Thursday, 2 April 2015

Adding some collar (horrible pun, but couldn't resist)

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As mentioned, I did have a few metres left of the greenish-brown-with-confetti tweed after I finished the sweater. Wearing it I thought the ...
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