Keyword: gathering

I love my little Instagram knitting journal. A review always shows me how productive I am. In everyday life, I have the feeling that I'm progressing much too slowly with my projects. You know that, right? My Insta-March was first of all very marked by the two Prince sweaters (1 to 3). The mustard yellow was still missing the sleeves, the red was born from the happiness about the first and has also become great.

Knitting blog on Instagram

The letter carrier brought me the beautiful Quinte & Co. yarn for my Anna Cardigan (4), which is now here on the needles. In between I had to play the bobble doctor (5). The Fräulein has the habit to dissolve the bobble thread by thread. The caps look very sad afterwards. So it had to quickly get new pom-poms.

Then were diligently knitted stitches and color samples for my Quicksilver (6). When the color combination was decided, it was knitted directly (7). At the h&h I had a lot of meetings and gathered a lot of impressions (8) and my personal highlight was the moment when Stephen West told me about the beautiful pattern in my diamond scarf (9)! There's also finally soon the tutorial to (as a project for the hot months, hahaha, what the heck!) and then there's finally some nice pictures of the scarf, I promise!

How was your March?

PS: The lucky winner of the Makerist video "Raglan from above" is fixed, see over there! Franziska, you got a mail from me!

The little prince has two new sweaters, both knitted according to the really simple, but equally pretty pattern "gathering stripes" by the Finnish Vera Välimäki.

Stricken für KinderThe model is so simple because it is knitted from the top down. Without seams. A classic raglan-from-the-top. You start at the top of the collar, which is knit garter stitch and flat. The round is closed with a slight overlap of the collar, then simply knit right side down in rounds.

Kids sweater raglan from top

For the first model I did not stick to the stripes. He is knitted from Zara of Filatura di Crosa. I already told you that this was originally a UFO from last year, which I unceremoniously ribbed. Good thing! I love this sweater! When I decided to rib, I went searching on Ravelry for a pattern that matched this wool. That's how I stumbled across gathering stripes.

Raglan knit from the top for children

Because the first model went so ruckzuckzu schnell and knitted so easily alongside, I decided to knit another right after. Also from Zara, because it is really a very nice merino yarn, with superwash finish, which is perfect for a little gentleman who no longer wants to wear a bib.

Knitting sweaters for boys

All cuffs are rolled cuffs, after the desired length is knitted one row purl and then again a few rows stockinette stitch (here with a thinner needle).

For the second model, I unfortunately ran out of red yarn and didn't want to reorder for that little piece - what am I going to do with even more leftovers in my stash? So I decided without further ado to use up mustard yellow.

I like it!

Here we go with a new round "On the needles", because March is here! In the past month there was a lot to browse, I'm always happy about every single link and hop excited to you over, one or the other project or the corresponding tutorial has already landed on my walls. Also on Instagram there was much to see under the hashtag #aufdennadelnfebruar!

Knitting sweaters for children

I've been knitting kind of crazy in the past month. After the diamond scarf, I wanted to get rid of one of my UFOs and decided to use the freestyle raglan-from-the-top that I had cast on for the prince last winter. Without further ado, I ribbed everything up and by now the gathering stripes is now finished except for the sleeve ends. A second one will be knitted directly afterwards, because this model is wonderfully simple, plain, but beautiful and the absolutely perfect in-between project when you don't want to think much. The wool is called Zara by Filatura the Crosa, I bought it last winter at mylys in Hamburg and now reordered. Is suitable with the superwash finish very well for a princess sweater and knits quite wonderfully.

And what do you have on the needles in March? What has become of your projects? Will you tell me? I'm looking forward to it! You can link up all month long! Attention: You have to put a backlink to this post or blog in your post, otherwise it won't work with the link tool. A backlink is nothing more than a link to this blog :)!

On Instagram I use the hashtag #aufdennadelnmärz. Join in there too!

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I have thought about a new category and I am very curious how you find it! "How do you do it?" will be a series of topics around knitting (at irregular intervals), in which I ask you questions and of course hope that you chat here quite numerous from the knitting box. There are so many - soooo many - topics I would love to know how others do it. Five knitters, five opinions, isn't it? Sometimes a question suddenly pops into my head while I'm knitting, and I'm already frantically googling around to find out how others do it. So why not just ask? Are you with me?

UFO knitting

Today, for a given occasion, it's about the subject of UFOs. Namely, when I cast off my diamond scarf a few evenings ago, I suddenly stood there with empty needles. I didn't feel like making the second sock, so I ventured to the closet with the unfinished objects. I have a few of those - not too many, but still. It should be nothing complicated, something without much thinking. No calculating and above all no reading the pattern. That's when the raglan-on-top sweater for the prince came to mind, which I made freestyle last winter.

Meanwhile, the sleeve openings were dangerously tight (the small vegetables grow too fast) and somehow I had no more desire to freestyle and calculate myself. So I ribbed a part and went in search of a suitable tutorial for the yarn. Ravelry is a dream for such projects: At Filatura di Crosa Zara (which I bought last winter at Mylys in Hamburg) I found a long list of suitable pattern under "Pattern ideas". Swoosh, gathering stripesby Veera Välimäki landed in the shopping cart and two evenings later I'm already almost at the sleeve openings and am cheerful to knit the part soon finished.

So sometimes you just have to ribbon UFOs to get back into the swing of things. How do you do that? Do you also rib a half-finished piece without mercy? Do you then use the yarn a second time? How do you work through your UFOs? Do you have a system - something like one UFO a month or so?

Tell me about it, I'm curious!