Frisian Frillies

The shawl came off the needles a while ago, but I promised I'd blog about it - also because I used some needles I testdrove for my lovely LYS at Wereldwol. She had ordered a bunch of bamboo needles from Chiaogoo and wanted to know whether they knit well. And what better to knit on bamboo circs than a humongous gigantic shawl? I had a skein of Scrumptious Lace and it proved the perfect yarn for the Cypress Triangle, a pattern by Dorte Ronnov which was adapted by Marieke from a square into a triangle. De omslagdoek is al een tijdje van de naalden af, maar ik had beloofd er nog over te bloggen - ook omdat ik er naalden voor heb gebruikt die ik heb getest voor Wereldwol. Marieke had een paar Chiaogoo-rondbreinaalden van bamboe besteld en wilde weten of ze wel breiden. En wat kun je daar dan beter mee breien dan een gigantische supergrote shawl? Ik pakte er een mooie streng Scrumptious Lace bij dat die was voor een Cypress Triangle, een patroon van Dorte Ronnov dat door Marieke is bewe...

In a not too distant past (well... say, about 13 years ago), a certain guy cast me in a play called Fireraisers by Max Frisch. I only had a small part in the play, but we all had a blast and the director and I ended up getting married two years later. I'm in the process of getting his fourth (I think?) pair of socks finished in time for our 11th wedding anniversary in October (which should be feasible), but I want to show you now what my Firestarters/Fireraisers look like that I knit over the last few months - and finished in the place where we met: Belfast. I have called them Biedermanns, after the main characters in the play... I had to reknit the second sock twice from the heel, as I had just forgotten that the leg was ribbed until I pulled the first sock out to see how many repeats I had to knit. I was on the plane at the time, so the guy next to me was introduced to a few Dutch expletives, after which I carefully started ripping out the sock (the yarn does not like being fro...