Handicraft Edition
Time to present my dance costumes. We’ll take off with the oldest ones, that is, pre-teaching.
This will be a sort list (both photos were taken in 2002).
First my pink balady dress from 1997, decorated with string of silver sequins.
Dark red glittering galabeya with saidi sleeves, underneat wide silvery harem-type pants from 1997.
The latter has been [...]
I joined Ravelry just over a year ago. What a wonderland that is! I follow several knitters who are inventive and creative (and knittaholics, judged by the number of the projects they’ve completed), and thanks to them I’ve found a lot of interesting patterns and ideas.
Since I joined Ravelry, I’ve kept a track of my [...]
In 2006 I looked into my yarn storage and had an inspiration.
I selected wine red Novita Nalle from my stash, a yarn, which I had bought several years earlier. There was a nice pattern of wrap-over jacket in Suuri Käsityölehti, except that I didn’t want to make a wrap-over jacket. So I picked up [...]
Moving into this century. My inspiration to knit has varied over the years. Knitted some when in uni, but the years when the kids were babies and toddlers were not productive in knitting field. I knitted a few pairs of baby-size socks, and some mittens. But knitting when you couldn’t leave needles out in the [...]
Now introducing some cotton.
This pink sweater is very pink, piggish color, I’d say. I’ve taken it into heavy use lately, though it’s nowhere near my favourite shade of pink. Also I’ve not any nice things to say about the shape of this sweater. I definitely do not like the neckline (small O’s not my [...]
Since I have been practising handicraft since childhood, there are numerous handicrafted entities from the previous years. First I’ll give you a showcase of my ancient history: some knitted items from last century (literally).
Item #1, a thick white sweater from 80’s. Knitted with size 7 or 8 needles, so made quickly. First version of raglans [...]