One Great Knitter: Day 3 of Knit and Crochet Blog Week

Today our assignment as part of  Knit and Crochet Blog Week is to write about a knitter whose work you enjoy. A knitter I enjoy following is a fresh and funky Swedish blogger called Dödergök.

Her knitting projects are often colorful, unique and photographed beautifully. These baby blue Quill Socks are enviable. Look at the colors in these Fair-Isle mittens. This lilac Ishbel Shawl is lovely.

She even creates her own designs like these pink and feminine Princess Socks.

If you've been looking at Dödergök's awesome finished objects, you may have noticed that the site is in Swedish. I love her blog so much that I have used my browser's translator to read it. I have even commented in Swedish using Google Translator! I hope I'm saying in Swedish what I think I'm saying...

Happy Knit and Crochet Blog Week!

An Inspirational Pattern: Valentine Triangle Shawl

As you might know, I am participating in Knit and Crochet Blog Week. Today is the day to reveal what pattern you aspire to create. The moment I read this I thought of all of the beautiful lace shawls I'd love to knit particularly the Valentine Triangle Shawl by Margaret Edelson:

 

                                             Photo by edelsma

Knitting lace has never appealed to me, because honestly it scares me! There I said it out loud. Even though I have tackled complex sweaters with cables and color changes, lace looks too hard.

I have tried to tackle my fear of lace. First, I joined a lace knit a long and produced a Ribbed Lace Bolero. Then, I graduated to a simple fan and feather shawl with my Multnomah. However, there were no charts, no fancy lace stitches, and no extraordinary concentration was required.

Having escaped lace, I am now knitting a cable cardigan. This for me is the comfort food of knitting.

Some day I will knit a lace shawl with actual charts...some day.

Happy comfort food knitting!