Keyword: Quicksilver

A little late this month comes my Insta-review. Based on the review I realize how quiet I was on Instagram actually, so compared to other months. That must change again. But there were a few pictures to see:

Instagram Maschenfein June

Of course (1) the new baby blanket. The picture makes you want more! I'm knitting the I-cord edge around it, I've just shown on Instagram. I do as seen on Purlbee, only that I have not cast off the top edge of the blanket at all, but directly with the I-cord edge knit off the stitches.

My friend Sabine has knitted a girl baby blanket according to the pattern of Cécile and brought it in between times (2). The weather was a bit mixed at the beginning of June and so I could wear my easy triangle shawl (3) more often for a walk.instructionsttern are also available for free download.

I have knitted many samples. At (4) you can see Cashmere Tweed from Schulana. I always do this in between, when I like a yarn or I just want to try it. I can't knit as many projects as I like yarns. So the stitch tests in between are just fun for me. I then attach a little note to it with the most important information and simply save the samples for a little while. Crazy, right?

In June I finally managed to show you my finished Quicksilver (5). I like it very much, the color combination is just so great. At my weekly knitting meeting (to which I unfortunately do not make it weekly - too much work, too often sick children) had a knitter this nice knitting needle box (6).

Of course, I also have my wool winder (7) in between times in operation. And then I was again for a day in Copenhagen in the Woolspire office, there I admired the Kid-Seta Pearl yarn and then saw on Instagram that sillblixt_berlin just knits my easy triangle scarf from this yarn! Awesome!!!

I have already knitted samples with the yarns from Lanecardate, which I got in June directly from Italy. I was very happy about that. Unfortunately, the yarns have such a limited color palette. "So Cashmere" I find but still very great! Once you have knitted that, you hardly want to knit with "So Wool", so wonderfully cozy that is. But at the price you have to want very much :).

Here they finally come... the pictures of my Quicksilver. The Knit Along is already a while ago *shame*, but it is always very difficult with the pictures here, after all, during the day almost always at least a child around or I'm working and my blog usually gets the dark evening hours allotted.

Melanie Berg scarves Quicksilver

I knitted the scarf from Fin from Du Store Alpakka. I like the yarn very much, it is light, soft and very comfortable to wear. As for the color combination, I had tried a few different color combinations at the beginning of the Knit Alongs and from this I learned that it is actually worth trying out colors first (if you can afford the luxury of buying a few different color columns). Combined they act knitted again quite different than if you just hold the colors together.

Melanie Berg design scarves

In December, Melanie Berg, the designer of Quicksilver, had given me some very nice answers to many questions. I also met her in March at the h&h fair and in person you can feel just like through her blog and her Ravelry group, how much she burns for the work with yarn and her pattern. Subscribe to her newsletter, then you are always up to date about new tutorials.

Quicksilver Melanie Mountain

The Quicksilver kit and pattern are still available at Woolspire. The tutorial is also available on Ravelry. Have a nice day!

Linked at the collective post to the Woolspire CAL and RUMS.

Here comes my Instagram review of May. We were on vacation for two weeks and as it is on vacation - when you let your soul dangle and the world somehow turns completely different - I came up with a trillion new ideas, all of which I diligently jotted down in my new organization tool called Trello. Don't know it? Then read the detailed article by Katharina and get infected!

Instagram Maschenfein May

Sometime in May we were in Hamburg for a few days and I used the car ride there to quickly knit a cardigan for Fräulein's little friend (1). Freestyle raglan-from-the-top. Fits like a glove. The Fräulein would now like a cardigan in partner look. If I'm ever bored, I think about it.

After a very nice conversation at the h&h fair in March I got a package from Addi to try, in it was also this olive wood circular needle (2). I knitted a little with it on vacation, it is not only beautiful to look at, but also feels great in the hand. It will soon be available in stores - unfortunately not yet for the Click System. I'll tell you more about the click system soon, because I've tested it very intensively and I'm thrilled.

In May I knitted my favorite new mohair shawl (3), the tutorial for it was available here for free on the blog and I hardly ever take the shawl off!

At my almost weekly knitting meeting with a couple of very nice knitting enthusiastic ladies from our daycare environment I admired the baby blankets from Heidi. One of them is this gray blanket (4) with the crochet border, isn't it beautiful? By the way, she inspired me to actually start the series about baby blank ets.

I have another favorite part, namely my Quicksilver (5), unchained and I notice that I have not shown him to you yet. That went under before loud farm and vacation. Will make up for it!

For my birthday I had wished for a wool winder and a reel and since then is wound here (6) professionally. I had recently reported about it, I love my new wool winder very much!

At the farm, I cast on a new baby corner from Como by Lamana (7) and have been busy knitting my Anna cardigan (8&9), which is only missing the last sleeve. However, I'm afraid it could use more length - but we'll see!

Did you also write about your Insta-May?

My Quicksilver is growing, I have now reached the fifth triangle (the blue hole pattern). I really like the color combination, it is special and certainly not everyone's thing, but it suits me.

Scarf knitting Melanie Berg Mairlynd

I realize I'm leisurely on my way. Jane, for example, is already done! Wow! But I also two more projects on the needles. On Instagram you can find under the hashtag #quicksilverKAL many designs in all imaginable color combinations. Such a Knit Along is great!

Carina, who notes that as a focal crocheter she would clearly prefer mercerized cotton or sock wool to the soft silk/alpaca blend "Fin", has posted her intermediate status and is busily passing me by I think, I need to get on it! But I see others have other things on the needles, too. Sophie, for example, is still knitting a summer jacket and a granny blanket in parallel. But her colors for the Moonraker look promising! Eeva is knitting with yarn from Purl Soho and showed how she winds the skeins herself. It never looks that neat on me!

How are you getting on with the WoolspireKAL? I am curious and link me over there!

Whoosh, hello April, we have already recognized you by the weather! Yesterday it snowed again for a change, so we don't need to worry about summer projects yet, the knitter's heart is happy about that! In March there were many beautiful knitting projects to see in the link collection and also on Instagram under the hashtag #aufdennadelnmärz. Just yet this so incredibly cozy version of the BeauB.

Anna Cardigan Quince Co

I have of course also in April my Quicksilver for the Woolspire Knit Along on the needles. He grows and I am very much in love with my color combination and the beautiful alpaca-silk blend Fin! But I'll tell you more about the Quicksilver tomorrow.

Here I show you my Anna Cardigan, which has also progressed quite a bit. The yarn Piper, a mohair-wool blend, is rather more difficult to knit for my taste. I have to look very closely. But it feels wonderful and I'm excited about the result. Excited especially because the pure kraus rechst optics just somehow for the cardigan not so much appeals to me. Maybe that changes but when the part is then finished as a whole.

And now to you! What do you have in April so on the needles? What has become of your projects? Will you tell me? I look forward to it! You can link 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 #aufdennadelnapril. Join in there too!

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I am very mean, I know. I had a few weeks ahead of me and could therefore try out color combinations for my Quicksilver in peace and quiet, to finally decide now. I wanted to knit first a muted cloth. So pretty gray in gray, but then I realized that yes at the end of the KAL spring is (hopefully) and since it is known then suddenly like it a little more colorful.

Fin wool alpaca

From left to right these are: Turquoise, Orange, light pink, Steel Blue, Green. In addition, I still had a rest of sand. I find it really fabulous how different the combinations work, depending on which color you then use for the hole pattern. Anyway, even if you have decided on three colors, you should definitely test the different effect if you knit the lace pattern in a different color. It's really worth it, give it a try! And make a stitch test anyway, because I actually knit half a needle size smaller.

Knit Along Quicksilver Shawl Knitting

I somehow always end up with pink. I do not know why, it attracts me magically. I'm also the type of mother who used to categorically rule out ever buying the child - should it become a girl - pink whatever. And now... exactly...

Knit Along Knitting Cloth

In the next picture you can see what I mean by the different combination of three of the same colors - and their effect. Top right and middle left are exactly three of the same colors, but combined differently. Isn't it crazy how differently they work?

Mairlynd Quicksilver knitting colors

I have now decided on the top left! And I link up with it at the WoolspireKAL! I am curious about the other posts!