Category Archives: Knitting

Some more baby sweaters

Two lab colleauges are pregnant and expected to deliver sometime in December, so I made them both tiny sweaters for 3-6 months old babies. For the one having a boy I made a baby surprise jacket in variegated adelyn microfibre … Continue reading

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Dicromatic February sweater

All our friends seem to procreate recently; a couple of friends who lives in my man’s Kibbutz, are expecting a baby girl, which was an occasion for me to take out all the unleashed passion for knitting tiny lace adorned … Continue reading

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Baby gift set

My cousin’s best friend is about to have her first baby girl, and my cousin asked me to knit her a gift set, for which she would buy the yarn. We went together to a yarn shop in Haifa and … Continue reading

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Lacy cardigan for my sis

My sister is away, travelling in central America, which may disturb my mother but is great for me, leaving me with plenty of time to finish her birthday present, which was due over a month ago. I made her a … Continue reading

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Natural Carbon

I didn’t mention it at all, but I’ve had a big project on my needles for a good bit of time, but somehow never got to take a good picture of it so I didn’t feel like writing about it. … Continue reading

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BB socks

I forgot to mention when I wrote about my visit to the Benediktbeuren textile market the knitting project that I took with me. As expected, I couldn’t spend a weekend among other knitters, in a textile fair, without knitting myself, … Continue reading

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Poisonous Ishbel

I was sent earlier this month to an animal welfare course in Berlin, and couldn’t travel without some knitting on my person. I decided to start knitting an Ishbel shawl with the Poison number 5 Wollmeise 100% wool I bought … Continue reading

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On my blocking board

I finally blocked my Tübinger Schal… And finished and blocked my Frost shawl as well: I plan to give it to my German step-grandmother, I think this colour would be to her liking, as it’s very similar to prayer shawls.

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First German Ravelry meeting

Shortly after I moved to Germany, I started looking for local knitting activities, and was very happy to learn that the first German Ravelry meeting was going to be held close by (in German terms) to Tübingen. I discovered that … Continue reading

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Featherweight Adriana

I finished my Featherweight Adriana worked in malabrigo lace yarn in Verde Adriana colourway following Hanna Fetig’s Featherweight Cardigan pattern. I added a lacy ribbing pattern on the collar and sleeve hems, and found that had to be extra-creative while … Continue reading

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