I think this may be my favourite thing in the world
Today is cold, grey and showery (a typical Bank Holiday weekend in other words) but the onset of autumn and winter always gives occasion to look forward to wearing more warm and snuggly knits.
Roll on the snow!
The Baktus scarf is finished and blocked.
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue
I was reading about the inspiration for the name ‘Baktus’ and found that Baktus and Karius are characters from a Norwegian children’s book – they are two trolls that live in the teeth, and Bactus is a play on words from ‘bacteria’. Anyway, thinking this scarf to be too pretty to be names after toothrot, I have called it ‘Regnbue’, which is Norwegian for rainbow.
Made from a single 100g ball of sock yarn, this is a quick and inexpensive project that makes a lovely gift. To make the most of the yarn for this project you should have a digital scale to hand as this allows you to weigh the yarn in the skein as you knit until you have half of your yarn left, then you start decreasing which means you end up with no waste.
I seem to have knit a unicorn horn
Made with a single ball of Schoppel-Wolle’s Crazy Zauberball (shade used: Little Fox), the completed and blocked scarf measures exactly 60″(153cm) in length and 12″ (30cm) at the widest point where I had increased to 86 stitches.
The pattern for Baktus can be found here on Flickr.
I am now an exhausted Mimi in London. Today I went for a picnic in a nature (not naturist) reserve with my cousin, nephew/2nd cousin type person of a grand 2 years old, and grandmother, where we ate (unintentionally) warm sandwiches and melted Kit-Kats. With my first face-full of sunshine for about a month I took the opportunity to start up that project I had intended for yesterday’s train journey.
like the train it was intended for: behind schedule.
I’m knitting this with my lovely Crazy Zauberball by Schoppel Wolle. An addition to the popular zauberball range, ‘crazy’ zauberballs have two separately coloured plys which each have their own colour gradient progressing from one super-saturated shade to the next. The effect is of a gradual flow of colour broken up by the ‘noise’ of another gradient. I have confused matters further by winding the ball into two seperate, equal length balls of yarn and knitting them into stripes.
Crazy Zauberball in Little Fox
The yarn is quite soft, but not as ’silky’ feeling as the single-ply zauberball, but it seems strong and is definitely fun to knit with, and I’m enjoying the element of surprise in discovering what effect s rendered as two stretches of yarn meet as I knit along and one combination slowly fade into the next.
Can ye' tell what it is yet?
This project is going quite quickly, so I hope to be finished in a few shorts days, and then I can reveal what will either be something eye-catching and gorgeous, or something which resembles the murder of a troupe of clowns that has taken place in a paint factory.
So, who’s up on their popular patterns enough to take a punt at what this might be?
Here’s a (cryptic) clue: You might say it is a project you can get your teeth into. (If you think that you know what it is and yet the clue makes no sense to you, type the pattern name into Google and you might find it click into place).
