Colourful Project # 2 - 'Mexican Tree of Life' by EmilyPeacockTapestry

I am making good progress with my Colourful Project # 1 (the 'Staccato' cardigan by Kirsten Kapur). The back, the front and the sleeves are finished, and I am now working on the hood. I hope that in next post I will be able to show you the finished product, and I'd love to start wearing it.

In the meantime, I would like to show you my Colourful Project # 2, which - as you can see - is an embroidery project. It is called the 'Mexican Tree of Life' (for obvious reasons) and it's by EmilyPeacockTapestry. I ordered it from her Etsy shop, where you will find many more beautiful kits. This project will take a lot more time than Colourful Project # 1, but it is certainly very colourful, and I love working on it.

Sneeuw en sokken (en een nieuw rondbreinaaldje)

De sneeuw:   spreekt voor zich...

De sokken:   weer een paar Crazy Zauberball-sokken dat af is, deze zijn voor Oudste Dochter.

En een nieuw rondbreinaaldje:   vriendin C. breit haar sokken altijd op zo'n rondbreinaaldje (30 cm lang, met een kink in de beide metalen gedeeltes aan de uiteinden). Zo een had ik er nog niet, en deze kreeg ik van haar kado, dank je wel vriendin C!

Colourful Project #1 - 'Staccato' by Kirsten Kapur

I very much felt like working on some colourful projects, so this is the first colourful project that I recently started. I wanted to knit something that was colourful and comfortable, and that would be easy to get on and off, so I chose this pattern ('Staccato') for a hooded cardigan, by Kirsten Kapur. I'm using Cascade 220 for it, that I bought at Penelope Craft some time ago. I prefer to knit the pieces separately, so I figured out how to do that, based on the Staccato pattern. Also I'm deciding how wide to make each stripe and which colour to use as I go, I'm not using the pattern for that. And I decided to make the sleeves shorter than the pattern calls for, otherwise I think that the sleeves would have been to long for me. I'm really enjoying this project and I love working with all these colours. I'm on the second sleeve now (the back, the front, and the first sleeve are already done), so I'm making good progress and I hope to be able to show you the finished result soon.