Merry Christmas!

My dear friends!  Merry Christmas to all who celebrate today!  

Wishing you every wonderful thing that a wonderful holiday season could bring! 

❤️❤️❤️

My #Christstollen 😍 (with drunken raisins and apricots) made with Olga's (@karpytsch on Instagram ) receipt. Soooo yummy!  

Рождественский штоллен по рецепту от Ольги (@karpytsch в Инстаграм). Получилось очень вкусно! Небольшие изменения: немного уменьшила количество специй кроме ванили (я не фанат большого количества пряностей) и без цукатов, только изюм, курага и миндаль замоченные в роме. Буду печь еще, новая партия сухофруктов в процессе 😍

Gifts for new babies

I've not posted here for a long time again... found that Instagram picture format is better for me to show my work in progresses and other pictures. Anyone is welcome to follow my Instagram to stay tuned :)

Find me as @tetianaotruta on Instagram.

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There are my new "old projects": Completed in summer, kept them secret for some time, then forgot to show. Gifts for my dear friends Jane and Oksana and their babies.

Delicate baby blankets and NB hats are hand knitted with lightweight and soft merino wool yarn.

 

 

Winding Road Hat & Scarf pattern

I am so excited about the release of  Heritage (the men’s collection) by Knit Picks with my Winding Road Hat & Scarf pattern (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/winding-road-hat--scarf) as a part of this collection.
You can see whole collection here: http://www.knitpicks.com/cfPatterns/EBook_Display.cfm?id=75207D

Photo credit: KnitPicks

Photo credit: KnitPicks

And there is my sample for Winding Road Hat & Scarf pattern knitted with super soft merino / cashmere blend yarn in grayish beige color :) 
Ravelry pattern page

As celebration of my pattern publication in Knit Picks Heritage (the men's collection) I've opened a GIVEAWAY on Instagram. Sign in is open till September 30 by end of the day.
Welcome to join! Don't miss out your chance to win printed copy of this pattern collection for men.

https://instagram.com/p/7s45hmSnlF/

Flower Child

I was dreaming about this top for a long time and knitted it finally :) Love it and wear a lot this summer. Norah Gaughan designs are awesome as usual :)

Pattern: Flower Child by Norah Gaughan

Yarn: about 630 m (690 yds), 300 grams of
Elann Limited Edition Cotone Lin, 60% Cotton, 40% Linen (DK, 105 meters in 50 grams).
Needle: US 5 - 3.75 mm, US 3 - 3.25 mm
Pattern page

Mods:
Knit XS to fit S.
All back pieces are knitted together in the round seamlessly.
All front pieces are knitted together.
I’ve made some changes in the front C & D sections to omit neck extensions.
I-cord edging for back neckline
Ended top bottom and sleeves with garter stitch edges.

Central NY Fiber Festival

In the mid June I visited Central NY Fiber Festival.
There were many our local vendors with fleece, rowing, handspun yarns,  handdyed yarns and fibers, spinning and weaving tools, live fiber animals on display. It was not too large as well known Rhinebeck, for example, but it was fun to visit it :)

В середине июня я посетила  Central NY шерстяной фестиваль.
Там были представлены местные производители шерсти, пряжи ручного прядения, шерсти и пряжи ручной покраски, инструментов для прядения и ткачества, а также можно было увидеть живых "шерстяных" животных.

Let's see a bunch of pictures :)

At first, the road to the festival led us up and down through the mountains and countryside.
Сначала, дорога к фестивалю вела нас вверх и вних через горы и сельскую местность.

 

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Festival vendors and exhibitors. Fiber paradise.

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Live fiber animals  

Icelandic goat with her baby

Sheep

Alpacas

Llama

Sheep

Herding dogs

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Celebrating World Wide Knit in Public Day

Bosc Pear shawl pattern

Hello dear friends!
I would like to introduce my newly published Bosc Pear shawl pattern, inspired by the yarn color which reminds me yellow-brown colors colors of Bosc pears.

It is an asymmetric triangular shawl / scarf worked sideways with eyelet stripes and textured edge.

Size: One size, easily adjustable.
Sample shawl size: 59” (150 cm) wingspan and 20” (50 cm) deep in the widest point.
Made with Wolle’s Yarn Creations Color Changing Cotton 100 gr, Curry colorway.

Pattern is available in English, German and Russian.

Work in progress inspirational picture from my Instagram. You are welcome to follow me there :)

 

 

Tracery

I was looking for good pattern for tweedy silk yarn for a long time.
It was worth it :)
Love my variant of Tracery top by Norah Gaughan

Recalculated to knit top down seamless.
Yarn: about 628 m (688 yds), 275 grams of Silk Sensation by Fiddlesticks Knitting, 100% Silk (114 m (125 yds) in 50 grams).
Needle: US 6 - 4.0 mm
Finished size: 36” to fit 34” with positive ease.
Ravelry project