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Hutchin X2 Pattern: Hutchin by Jared Flood Yarn: Drops Fabel #113 ruby red Needles: 2.5mm and 3.0mm I really liked the first Hutchin hat I knitted a short while ago, but the hat didn't really turn out the way it looked in the Brooklyn Tweed photos. Mine was a tad too big for me and instead of being a smallish beanie like it was supposed to be, it turned out to be a very loose slouch. The fact that I knitted it with cotton yarn didn't really help either since it only stretches the more I use it. I like the first Hutchin despite these shortcomings and I've used it a lot, but I still wanted to knit another one to get the kind of hat I wanted to begin with. This time I used the rest of the ruby red Drops Fabel (leftover from the Stricken socks) and went down with the needle sizes. I started the ribbing with 2.5mm needles, skipped the part about the tubular cast on (I didn't really like the look of it the last time) and did a long tail cast on instead....

Stasis Pattern: Stasis Pullover by Leila Raabe Yarn: Drops Baby Merino; main color #22 light gray   and contrasting color #20 dark gray Needles: 2.5mm and 3.0mm This pullover was at the top of my knitting queue for a long time (like over a year) and I had the yarns stashed for it for almost as long before I finally decided to cast on for it. Nomen est omen and the pullover faced a literal stasis for a while before I finally found the flow during my trip to Amsterdam. After that the knitting went more smoothly and it didn't take much longer before the whole thing was finished. I used 2.5 mm needles for the ribbing and then changed to 3.0 mm for the stockinette stitch. There's a third needle size suggested for the charted sections (3.5 mm) and I knitted the first sleeve according to these instructions. However I thought the pattern became quite loose with that needle size and you could see the difference between the gauges for the fair-isle and the stockine...

My Stasis pullover and second Hutchin cap are now ready. I'm hoping to show you more soon.

Quadrillion Pattern: Quadrillion by Meghan Fernandes published in the Pom Pom Quarterly issue 6, autumn 2013 Yarn: Novita Wool 442 #gray Needles: 4.0mm Now that I'm all done I definitely get the name Quadrillion for this sweater. I feel like I have knitted at least that many cables! There are 8 different types of cable patterns on the front, and that's not all: some of the cables have two or even three different types of cabled sections inside them, and one additional small lace part. And if that's not enough to get you confused, the cable charts have different row counts for repeats so keeping track was quite hard. There was a suggestion of highlighting the correct rows with washi tape, but after a while I came to the conclusion that I would save a lot of time and fuss by photo-shopping them together to make one long chart. I knitted the ribbing for the back and front separately but joined them in a round on the first row of the charted section (note...

The post about my trip to Amsterdam started to become so long with all the photos and everything that I decided to divide it into two parts. The touristy stuff is in the previous post and this one is dedicated to yarn and knitting. Even though I was really short on time during my stay in Amsterdam I made sure I had time for a couple visits to yarn stores as well. I think I liked Penelope Crafts the most of the ones I visited. I've written earlier about being dubious about buying yarn that I haven't tried before, especially ordering them online since I don't like buying yarn without being able to touch it, see how it looks and behaves and feel if it itches me before I buy it. I've been wanting to try to knit with Quince & Co. yarns for a while now: they look beautiful in all the photos, but I haven't been able to get my hands on them here in Finland. Now I got to fiddle the skeins a bit and I know what they are like so I can start ordering them ...