Handicraft Edition
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No, I haven’t done any finishing off. Instead I’ve knitted two new items – and finished them!
I bought my kids some Novita Puro: three skeins of colorway Ruska and another three of colorway Revontuli. Kids are knitting themselves scarves with garter stitch.
I thought I’d make them simple caps. To keep myself interested, I decided to [...]
I have a 95% syndrome. You can see it in my Ravelry account: nothing ever gets finished, they are all stuck at 95%.
I declare the projects 95% ready, when I’ve finished knitting, but I haven’t weaved in the ends. Once the ends are weaved (and preferably also the item has been soaked and dried) I’m [...]