On the needles {January 2022}

Did you all start the new year with empty needles? If yes: Respect! In the team we didn't manage that. Jule, for example, is just finishing the last seams on the Selma's Sleep Suit from PetiteKnit.

I am knitting on Selma's Sleep Suit for a little girl from friends. She came into the world a little earlier than planned, so now I have to hurry. My knitting resolution for 2022 is to knit a Norwegian sweater again. Multicolored knitting has always been my favorite, but I neglected it a lot in 2021.

Before we get to the real knitting snails (i.e. me), let's take a look at Sandra's knitting basket. She can actually start a new project, but (!) had to work off a few (few) old issues beforehand. That's just for your information 😉.

It really took me a while until this project made it onto my needles. And the sweater is called Coming Soon ... For the yarn I chose Como Tweed from Lamana in the color night blue. After a few gray projects, blue knitting is finally needed again.

And then Sophia wanted a knitting resolution for 2022 from me... I'm not really someone who makes resolutions. And after finishing all the projects I started and really only have this sweater on the needles right now, I think that's a pretty darn good start to the new year. But when I think about what I'd like to knit again, I get tingly fingers at the thought of Fair Isle. Ever since the podcast episode with Sophia from Stichfest, the fantastic Threipmuir sweater by Ysolda Teague has been buzzing around in my head - in cashmere 6/28. That would be something. We'll see if I tackle that one in 2022.

Hach, what we are looking forward to our next visit in Berlin, when we can finally go to Marisa's new office aka the Maschenfein showroom.

Of course it was clear that I had to order all the yarns from Knitting for Olive, our latest addition to the manufacturer, for our showroom. And of course it was equally clear that I had to hit something directly. And so Merino and Soft Silk Mohair wandered onto the needles and I'm trying out a stole design.

That also leads me directly to my resolution for this year. Always write down when I create something. So hopefully I can soon show you a new design from Maschenfein!

Write along more? That sounds like it was made for me ... I myself am not too faithful to my knitting projects (but better here than anywhere else, right?). And so I started the new year with one or the other legacy ...

While sorting through my yarns, I came across this in my basket. Honey Washbag from PetiteKnit. Criminally neglected halfway through, it lay there sadly. Fate punished me immediately as I continued knitting. I no longer knew in which row I had stopped and found partout the re-entry not. In addition, I noticed some sloppiness.

So: Everything from the beginning! Except for the bottom of the bag I have everything ribbed and knit dutifully row by row and make a note when I pause. Looks much better! And here also shows my resolution for this year: More notes, less memory! Because that no longer works adequately for me since pregnancy and breastfeeding 😉

Plans, as we all know, are there to be changed. This is also the case with Arlene:

Originally the Midnatssol from CaMaRose should be used for another project. But since I didn't get to cast on vacation and had a painful vaccine arm from boosting after vacation, I was only now able to knit stitch samples with this lovely wool.

I liked the brioche pattern soooo well that I have changed my mind and now knit the scarf I urgently needed in the color Gylden. With 8 needle and four threads, the project should be, despite the planned dimensions, hopefully quickly off the needle again. Then I can devote myself to my knitting resolution for this year: I want to dare to a double face project!