In Ulla 2/2009 (released in July) there were two patterns that immidiately caught my eye.
The first one was Vaapukka by Kristel Nyberg. I happened to have five skeins (à 50 g) of Novita Bambu I had bought in a sale.
Novita Bambu is 68% bamboo and 32% cotton, very soft and lovely to knit, unless you [...]
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Violetti Vaapukka and Alpakkapolku
Pikkuveli pattern published
My last FO was a cardi for a kid, pattern by Villapeikko.
Today the pattern for Pikkuveli-cardi has been published. Do check out also the Ravelry page for Pikkuveli – there are a few projects of the pattern in different sizes and colours.
Ready, set: Pikkuveli-cardi
I’ve been test knitting a cardi for kid by Villapeikko, and now I’m proud to announce that it’s finished. And I mean really finished, all ends of yarn and buttons and all, not just 95% finished. (In fact, I’ve been almost there for over a week now, but due to numerous tasks I had last [...]
Third one of a kind
A few weeks back, I knitted two caps of Novita Puro for kids.
Needed a quick and easy project for last Thursday – I had an afternoon of lectures to attend to. Decided to make yet another cap of Novita Puro, this time the yarn colourway was “Iltanuotio”.
There were some nice colours in that yarn, but [...]
Making 95% UFOs into FOs
I’ve been in a process of finishing 95% UFOs. Glad to announce that I’m almost there: I have three items crossed off the to-do list.
In August 2008 I started knitting these wrist warmers. Found a “fake cable”, which requires no cable needle, in a pattern book and adapted it.
First made wrist warmers for myself.
The wrist [...]
A week of test knitting
I saw Villapeikko’s Pikkuveli-cardi in her blog and fell in love with it right on. Villapeikko intended to make a pattern of this cardi, and I voluntered to test knit.
Earlier I posted a few pictures of yarn bought from Secretwool. The yarn – Cascade 220 Wool, 100 % Peruvian wool – was bought for this [...]
Showstopper Sagittaria
This shawl caught my eye right on. I had never knitted a triangular shawl starting in the middle of the neck, let alone casting the knitting from some crochet stitches. Vilma Vuori’s Sagittaria was bit of a challenge.
I found the pattern relatively straight forward, once I got the hang of it. The pattern of the [...]
Lace in my colors
I have quite a lot of Novita Nalle in my stash, because it’s inexpensive and available. Over the years there has been a number of beautiful colours there, especially in Novita Nalle Colori. The colour I used in the following items is definitely my favourite, a mix of pink and grey and white.
Halfway through August [...]
Alpaca Clapotis, soft as a dream
I believe that half of the knitting world has knitted a Clapotis by now. Well, now I can join them, too.
I started this scarf at the end of August. I thought the pattern would make a great knitting for lectures. And so it did: it rather simple to follow, yet a bit more interesting than [...]
Where does all this yarn come from?
Within two days the weight of my stash has increased by 3,4 kilos. Outch.
Yesterday I received a huge sack of yarn from Secretwool. I’m about to start an interesting project, and I needed some yarn for it. Thought that I might as well buy some more yarn while I was at it, and so at [...]