My first Baby Surprise Jacket for A., a beautiful little girl. Apart from the button, it was ready some time ago.
Results from my first dying experiment:
Finally I got the books from the Interweave Sale. Even if the postage takes most of the reduction it still feels like christmas.
Tags: knit, books, ez, elizabeth zimmermann, BSJ,
This piece of knitting kept me from getting insane this week, from the terrible workload (giving courses and conference talks…)
I managed to finish the last six ridges (including the button holes) yesterday evening and I am still overwhelmed by the genius of this pattern. I can’t find another word for it. Of course most of you already guessed what I am talking about. EZ famous Baby Surprise Jacket (BSJ).
It’s made from Opal Sock wool, worked double stranded with neede Nr 5; more details see on ravelry. Now let’s weave the shoulders.
Self striping yarn (with Koo-Aid): a Tutorial
Part One of the Tutorial with other Links
On Knitty
Color-chart
I just ordered some Kool-Aid at a friend who is in SF right now
I finished the knitting. Good that I didn’t make it the original length - I just had enough wool. Remaining tasks: Blocking and finding the appropriate buttons. And make the afterthought buttonholes.
Im glad that I finally knitted this. I really like improvising but it adds up to total knitting sum…
I finished another pair of socks for my boy. He absolutely wanted orange socks. Fine by me, hopefully his younger sister can wear them too.
BTW socks are the ideal project to be knitted on the playground 
For further reference: http://kathrynivy.com/patterns/extras/dyeing-yarn/
On ravelry
I just can’t help - they do remind me of fishes. Ever since I read the mitered mittens pattern from ez, I decided to try these. Then I saw this yarn:
And now they are finished, blocked and ready to give away. Yes I know it is not the right time of the year - but there is no sense of waiting, isn’t it. Even if I am waiting for spring to come, the next winter will come anyway.
Only after blocking I checked with the photo again and saw, that ez actually has the zigzag the other way round. But then they wouldn’t have been fishes anymore
Tags: ez, elizabeth zimmermann, mittens, mitered mittens, miter, knit, knitting, fishes
I am making progress. Slowly, but I am. I enjoy designing my personal tomten as I go, but it means that I have to frog from time to time. I had to adjust the height after the armholes, it just was too heigh - the waist would have been to low otherwise.
But I started with the first sleeve today - yet to decide if I go with some short rows for the shoulder or not.
Tags: knitting, ez, elisabeth zimmermann, tomten jacket, tomted, gartner stitch
sound promising and much easier than other invisible cast ons: the turkish cast on
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