at home

We spent the whole last week at home due illnesses and such. Common colds, luckily. Both little ones had too much energy (yet too little) and the boredom which normally transforms into creative play had no where to go.


So we played all the games we have, set up our tepee, played some more and drew and painted all we could. It was an exhausting week and I'm glad we're back to the normal rhythm of things.

more warm-up

Continuing with small scale I knitted a hat. A slouchy tam sort of hat with the same ingredients as my first warm-up exercise. One cable and waffle stitch - this time the waffle stitch is modified to suit better this project. Fun little knit with no big fuss. Warmest hat I've ever made, which goes well with the cold winter here.

Pattern: my own
Yarn: Novita Huopanen
Needles: 5 mm and 6 mm

honey cardigan

Remember Honey Cardigan? The pattern is now ready!
The cardigan is easily knitted from the top down in one piece and features beautiful cabled yoke and I-cord finishing.

Sizes: x-s, s, m, l, x-l
Finished bust circumference: 32, 35, 35, 40, 44 inches (82, 90, 90, 100, 111 cm)
Yarn: 1100-1440 yards of worsted weight yarn
Gauge: 18 sts and 25 rows in 4" (in Stockinette stitch)

For the yoke there is both written and charted instructions.

€4.90

I've been wearing mine very often since I finished it and it starts to look like that. I would probably consider substituting the Hjertegarn Lima with some other worsted weight yarn...

warm-up

There's been a little of this and a little of that, mostly snow and snow and snow. Frost and freeze. The past January was the coldest I can remember right now. And the winter has been amazingly beautiful and magical.

I've been knitting some kind of small warm-up exercises. For example this waffle vest, with one cable. Using some random yarn from stash, I first planned a cardigan - but ripped of the sleeves when I realized how crazy-warm the whole thing was. Now it's perfect. Short, fitted and still warm. So warm.


Pattern: my own
Yarn: Novita Huopanen
Needles: 6 mm


Thank you for those sweet comments on my latest post - the pattern for Twenty Ten Cardigan is coming!

welcome 2010

New year, new decade. May it be woolen and full of happiness!

We've had some wonderful time over the holidays, with friends and family. We've enjoyed the snow and the great winter here - oh so white and oh so cold. And a little knitting, surely.

That little knitting is mostly my new favourite cardigan. (Hmmm... I think I say that about every finished piece.) But this is so cosy, so warm, so funny and so snugly. Love, love , love it.


Knitted with the yarn I got from my father (the best gift ever). The yarn was spun specially for them many years ago. Too bad they don't have sheep anymore, the yarn is beautiful. It was was natural white, but I decided to dye it. Bold move, but it paid off this time (I do remember some horrifying dye-experiments in the past...) The yellow is perfect!

Pattern: my own
Yarn: bulky weight wool
Needles: 5 mm


I can't stop with the pics, I love this so, so much. The collar is so wonderfully versatile (I'm so happy it worked like a dream!) and I'm constantly playing with it. What a great start for a new year of knitting!

more christmas cables

Here we go. I couldn't resist.
I had two skeins left over from my Christmas cables cardi and they turned into this matchy matchy hat. Fun and nice and warm. Now I think I have it all for perfect Christmas, it might be time to think others for a while!


Pattern: my own
Yarn: Hjertegarn Lima
Needles: 5 mm

christmas cables

Oh, it's December. Christmas is coming and it shows everywhere. Cheery Christmas carols, all the lights, all the waiting. Boys have been playing Santa and his little elf for some time now, and I've had the honour to be the reindeer occasionally.

We've not done much for Christmas, some gingerbread has been baked and that sort of things. But the best thing is my new cardigan. It's so perfect for this time of year - warm, layering and festive with honeycomb cables. And the color grey - I seriously have a thing for grey at the moment. A big thing.


Pattern: my own, and I think I will write up the pattern.
Yarn: Hjertegarn Lima
Needles: 5 mm