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
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 [...]
Two FOs on one blow
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 [...]
95% syndrome
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 [...]