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
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 [...]
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 [...]