Summer hats

I made two more summer hats this week. First I made one with red flowers. Then I planned to make another one with red flowers, but after a day or so I realized that I did not have enough white yarn. And since I had very little red too, that would never work. So I dug up the blue yarn instead, and made the brim and the flowers blue. At first it bothered me that I could not make the hat all white, but actually I think it turned out almost even better this way.
Yarn Novita Kotiväki, hook 2,5 mm. Size approx. for a two-year-old.

Ruched Yoke Tee

Tried to update yesterday, but blogger was not available - let's see if I remember what I was planning to write... My subscription of Interweave Knits ended with issue Spring 2011 (no time, no money, must take a break), and I decided that I really wanted to knit something from it. Chose the Ruched Yoke Tee simply because I liked the looks of it, and got the first available suitable yarn from the nearest store, and ended up with an old colorway of Novita Tennessee. Not my favorite yarn, since it splits a bit too easily, and not my favorite color either, but the best they had.

Anyway, knitting was fun, and amazingly quick. I guess I have not knitted on size 4mm needles for a while so everything went very fast. If I could have kept from knitting in the early morning hours I would probably have knitted even faster - I made a couple of really silly mistakes early in the mornings and ended up ripping twice. First I actually managed to make the yoke Moebian i.e. forgot the part "join together being careful not to twist"! And another morning I cast on only 3 sts under the arms instead of 6. I did wonder a bit about the placement of stitch markers, but not enough to see that the instructions said to cast on 3 more sts after placing marker. Well, on the next row the stitch count did not match, so I realized my mistake pretty soon.
I was a bit worried about the attached i-cord, but that turned out really well too, so in whole this is a very easy pattern with a pretty result.

Now only to wait for my girl to grow into it - it's still a little too big, but, well, she ain't 2 years yet.

Sommarhatt och klänning

Liten har gillat att bläddra i mina gamla sticktidningar, och plötsligt fick jag syn på en klänning jag alltid velat göra, och insåg att största storleken är 92 - liten är nu minst 86 cm så det var verkligen dags att ta itu med den. Mörkblått Kotiväki-garn finns inte just nu, men via Neulomo tycks man alltid hitta nån som har det man vill ha, så jag fick flera svar på min annons, och hade ett mörkblått nystan inom en vecka. (Eller skulle ha haft, men liten var sjuk så det tog nästan ytterligare en vecka att få hem paketet från posten.)
Eftersom jag inte gillar att sy sömmar så stickade jag allt i ett. Och jag behövde använda stickor 2,5mm för att få rätt stickfasthet.

Sen då klänningen var nästan klar (väntade på dragked) så hade jag ju garn kvar, så jag virkade en sommarhatt. Först använde jag en modell ur Novitas Muksuekstra, men den gillade jag inte, så jag rev upp och modifierade och rev upp och virkade om och höll på så några gånger tills jag fick ihop en hatt som passade min smak bättre. Den är kanske litet stor ännu, men helt okej, och testades idag för första gången på morsdagslunchen. Klänningen testade vi inte ännu för den är nog litet onödigt stor.

Summer dress and hat. Hat ended up being my own design.