A lot of beautiful colors

Posted on December 4, 2009 by persillieknits

Some time ago I had the chance to browse a Rennie color card. This is what I noted to rembember:

Supersoft Original:

207 Stonehenge
405 Crabapple
190 Charcoal
986 Spice
1414 Grenadine
1294 Red Hat

Supersoft Cashmere:

[023 Demeter]
046 Lissa
036 Poseidon

Castle Collection Donegal

004 Woodpecker
035 Venlow
001 Negtail

Chunky Donegal

019 Radiant Reg

Somewhere I must have pics of the color card… go to look for them…

You might call me crazy

Posted on February 9, 2009 by persillieknits

but I just couldn’t resist. Last wednesday I went with fourchette and her friend to lang yarns in reiden. Yarn sale. And that’s the result:

(Sorry for the bad picture, but the colors are more real without flash. And I couldn’t wait til the next sunny day…)

That’s yarn for three projects! I mean three sweater projects. Nobody knows when I am actually going to knit this, but then, just one after another.

I couldn’t really enjoy my findings, because – stupid, stupid, I know, I left one of my favorite knitting books in the store. Knitting Nature. But the ladies at Lang Yarns were kind enough to send it back to me! Thank you!

Other Fiber Related Activities

Posted on October 13, 2008 by persillieknits

Forgot to mention that I also have dyed some yarn this september. With plants. That meant, first to treat the yarn with Alaun. So don’t get any illusions about no chemistry when dyeing with plants. But Alaun is ok, I also wanted some Kaliumbichromid (or whatever that’s called in english) but got a bit scared after the pharmacist read all the side effects. And how I have to treat this drug. So i decided to go with Alaun. I used goldenrod, red clover, leaves and shells from walnut. Unfortunately my camera is not very good with yellow and brown, so no pictures so far (I am working on it though).

Knit Guerilla Art aka Knit Graffiti

Posted on August 22, 2008 by persillieknits

I encountered knitting as guerilla art in the book below (thanks nchenga for bringing it to Switzerland). This evening, I stumbled over this.

I really like the idea of putting knitted stuff in the environment. I didn’t see any knit graffity in Basel so far, but who knows, may be I just didn’t know where to look for.

Tags: art, knitting, knit, guerilla art, keri smith

Flea Market

Posted on July 26, 2008 by persillieknits

Bought one and a half kilo yarn on the fleamarktet – 15 100g Strands for Fr. 2.– each. Good, tweady, 100% wool – may be an aran cardigan from Knitting Nature. Or Central Park Hoodie for me? Updated: Picture added: