FO nr 31/2010

-Fredag sad jeg i solen og strikkede, men med en stor ulden tröje på sködet var jeg ved at smelte væk. Som tænkt, så gjort, jeg fandt noget tykt bomuldsgarn i to farver, en multi rosa og en mörkebrun. Begge garner har jeg kredset om længe, for der var ligesom ikke nok af hver af dem til noget. Men, jeg slog op og strikkede sådan lidt på må og få og efter gefühl. Og nu har jeg en sommerting, en mellemting mellem en top og en kjole, måske en tunika? Garnet er Patagonia Nature Cotton, 100% håndfarvet bomuld, og så Drops Ice, 55% bomuld og 45% acryl, i mörkebrun. Jeg har begyndt med pinde 5mm til halskanten, skiftet til 5,5mm til jeg kom lidt nedenfor barmen, så 6mm og det sidste stykke af det rosa med 7mm og det brune med 8mm, men også lavet nogle få udtagningerne i siderne undervejs. Der var 4x100gr af det håndfarvede og 4x50gr af det brune, det hele er brugt op, men alligevel vejer toppen kun 580gr, så nogen af bundterne må have vejet mindre end opgivet. Jeg skal nok få datteren til at tage et foto af mig med den på senere.

-Friday I was sitting in the sun knitting, but with a big woolen cardigan in my lap I was about to melt away. So I found some chunky cotton in two colours, a multi rose colour and a dark brown. Both yarns have been around for a long time, but I haven´t known what to do with them since there was not enough of each of them for anything. I cast on and knitted away with no pattern and just going by instinct. And now I have a summer thing, something in between a top and a dress, maybe a tunic? The yarn si Patagonia Nature Cotton, 100% handdyed cotton, and Drops Ice, 55% cotton and 45% acrylic in a dark brown. I started with needles US8 for the neckline, changed to US9 until I got down below the bust, then US10 and the last bit of the rose with US11 and then the brown with US12, but I also made a few increases in the sides along the way. There was 4x100gr of the rose and 4x50gr of the brown, I used it all up, but still the top only weighs 580gr, so some of the hanks must have been lighter than the labels said. I´ll get my daughter to take a photo of me wearing it later.