grey or silver, shiny summer

Sometimes I just do some windows shopping or have a look at the clothes at shops, to see if I find good inspiration for some knitting project. I once liked some kind of bolero I saw at Pull&Bear (Inditex). I tried it on (i didn't really like the colour) and decided to knit something based on its pattern. Instead of knitting just one peace, I knitted 2 rectangular pieces and then sewn it together following the original idea. I also decided to knit one of the edges differently (unlike the bolero I saw at the shop).

I got the yarn (I guess it's acrylic but it looks and feels very silky) at the local street market (thursdays). I used for the shoulders' part 4,5mm needles and for the back 3,5mm needles. The different gauge, as well as the different direction of the stitches makes a beautiful and interesting contrast.

light pink cotton spring

A new project....The plan is to crochet some kind of shrug, suitable for cooler summer days/nights. I went for some light pink cotton yarn...unusual colour for me.
(this post will be gradually updated)

pseudoflower...while watching the news

Recently, since I have little time, I crochet when I watch (well, hear) the news on tv in the evening (well, and after lunch time at weekends)....and little by little I see the projects advancing. Today I began something else after having "met" a beautiful pattern. It was to make a table topper / table topper but I'll make some kind of jacket-bolero (not because I love boleros or jackets but just because I wear them a lot in part because I dont' wear sweaters or pullovers..well, yes, I do also like boleros and jackets).

First the pattern and then I found the suitable yarn: black and silver cotton (gauge: number 5). Let's see how it goes and looks...

Today I got some other ideas....In fact I have plenty of yarn at home for the coming projects...

yellow short sleeved shrug...squares squares

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happy green jacket

finally!!!! I bought the yarn to do-some-jacket-or-bolero in August (at Labores Epi, in Salamanca city)....but I didn't find the stitch pattern+idea until recently. I found the stitch pattern in some russian site (with scanned magazines)...I tried crocheting using that pattern with the green yarn (I'll will post the name and colour) and went on crocheting an improvised jacket (I didn't use any pattern) since I liked the way it looked like....and recently I finished....the jacked is ready to be worn!

violetshrug

2€= a shrug...and there's still some yarn left. It was my first more-or-less-long-sleeved-bolero!!! I got the yarn at Lanas el Globo (see address on the right side column)

red rayon

Last Thursday I met 6 red rayon yarn balls and they asked me to go with me. 300 g. of rayon (3.5€ all) and still some yarn left, as usually (I didn't know whether I should crochet longer sleeves or not...At the end I didn't take the risk of running out of yarn) .


I asked the yarn seller whether they had black or green rayon yarn....They might have some black one this week or in 2 weeks.


Rayon makes me think of the song "Muchacha ojos de papel" by Luis Alberto Spinetta....in it lyrics he describes a girl as rayon-skinned.

Ode to flowers

Snying-rje-po beings decorating the air we breath. Last weekend I managed to finish the flower bolero. This time I followed the indications given from the beginning till the end (but those about the colours and the kind of yarn). I used some acrylic perlé yarn in black (no idea about whether there’s a name for perlé in English) (number 5 or 8, it didn’t say anything, but I worked with a crochet hook of 1,6mm, number 4). I also used some silver colour thread which I combined with the black yarn. Cost: 2.75 euros only but many hours making flowers, putting them together and so on. It's not a very useful bolero: very short, not very warm, but i like it and it's a good option for those days when sleeveless t-shirts are not enough (due to cool temperatures) and long sleeved t-shirts are too much.

genesis of a bolero

First, the idea, then, the idea of the colour; green (obviously, in my case). I had some instructions to do the bolero, but due to the kind of yarn I found (banana fibre silk, produced in Nepal, bought at Persones Llanes) and due to the confusion caused by inches, numbers that could be chain stitches or inches, I decided to make the bolero following my intuition and the size of a cotton fabric bolero I have. I ran out of green yarn (ooh) when I finished making the sleeves (they had to be short)...then I continued with dark violet (Gacela, Alvelana S.L., 100% acrylic, colour 87).

And I liked the result...but I’ll have to wait for lower temperatures. I had never made any kind of jacket or so before...but scarves, several bags, some potholders, pencil cases, coin purses, unclassified stuff. I was not very confident about getting a nice result...but patience and willingness to improve one's skills did a lot. I didn't use complicated stitches, basically because it was not very easy to work with the green yarn. For the part in dark violet I chose some combination of stitches that creates some kind of star pattern. Result: snying.rje.po bolero! (at least I like it)

By the way..the quality of the last picture of me wearing the bolero is not very high...there are stains on the door, on me... :( on dark areas in the picture...