Winter Gloves

Finished knitting my gloves for winter. Here is two pictures of the finished item, knitted on UK14 (2mm) two needles using Katia Olé Socks "condor".

New yarn!

This Thursday I took a little trip out of Amsterdam to my favourite yarn shop in Hoorn: Schouten Handwerken. Marjan, Claartje and myself had been trying for the past two months to find a date when we were all free or not held up in bed with a cold... and this Thursday was the day!

Despite the 75km wind and the driving rain (and the mix up at the train station - leaving Claartje behind on the platform as the train pulled away!) we had a wonderful time in Wilbert's family shop. As always Wilbert (and his father and medewerkers) were there to help us with our purchases, offering advice on yarn for patterns and colour combinations, and having a chat. And to warm us up a lovely cup of tea and a local cake tasting of aniseed literally called "chew chew" (something like kauw kauw in Nederlandse taal).

We finished our trip by having a nice cup of tea in the english tea rooms along the same street as Wilbert's shop: Gumbleton's.

And this is the yarn I decided to use for a sleeveless pullover I want to make for Christmas:

I am using the same brand of yarn at the moment to make a pair of gloves (wool/alpaca mix) and I find it so soft and easy to knit with. It holds its shape really well and the yarn doesn't split and copes well with being frogged.

I also bought some more Trekking sock yarn as I have used this before and find it a good strong brand for making socks (but this ball might be for more winter gloves):

And here is our friendly host Wilbert winding some yarn for Claartje:

And one of me knitting in public:

Happy Knitting guys!