SNY-kortti saapui!

No niin, en siis tällä koneella näköjään osa kääntää kuvaa oikeinpäin. Ison halin siis sain salaiseltani. Oli oikein askarrellut rusetitkin, ja kääntöpuolella rusettilankaan oli kiinnitetty kahdet käden muotoiset isot napit. Ehdin juuri napata kuva, ennenkuin napit otettiin talteen - saa sitten nähdä millaiseen lasten askarteluprojektiin ne pääsevät!

Got a postcard from my secret friend today!

Turquoise

I'm a bit excited today, as the SNY kevät is about to start. While waiting for info, I'd better sharpen up, and start keeping my blog up to date again.

This yarn is too thick for me - Novita 7 veljestä... But how could I resist this color!?

Patterns from Novita's website, in Finnish and Swedish.

Nyt kun SNY kevät 2016 kohta alkaa, täytyykin skarpata blogin kanssa! Tässä viime viikkojen aikaansaannokset, ihan itselleni. Ongelma: minulla ei ole näihin asusteisiin sopivaa takkia, no ei se mitään!  Näitten välissä valmistui jotain aivan muutakin, mutta siitä en uskalla vielä kuvaa laittaa.

Green is not my color

I'm not quite convinced that I have produced nothing since my last post. But maybe that's true, perhaps I have only produced Excel sheets and work stuff. Well, the kids are still alive and the house is still a mess, so maybe that's that.

I made myself a nice pink shawl many many years ago in bamboo yarn, and a brown one for a friend. Mine's still around but my friend really made use of hers, and asked me for a new crocheted brown shawl the other year. Knowing me she added "at some point when you have time". Well, she'll have to keep waiting. Meanwhile I hope she'll like this green one.

Socks for MIL

I have planned for years now, to knit my MIL a pair of socks. Both she and my FIL are dedicated users of wool socks - I knit him a pair some years ago and it's really rewarding to knit for someone who really appreciates and uses what I've made!

Pattern from Villasukkakirja, a Finnish translation of a bok by Ann Budd. Do not like the translation, and there was a bit too much errata, but the pattern itself was nice.
Fabel yarn by Garnstudio, happened to get a Monday sken with two knots - quite unusual. Otherwise happy.

Now ready for Christmas!

Wine Santa's

Some christmas presents. Just because it's dull to give away just a mere bottle of wine. Pattern from Garnstudio. Link opens pattern in Swedish, but it does come in many languages.

Autumn update

As I said, still not much time for knitting. I have found some little time to knit on the bus when commuting to work, though. Circular needles and dpn's, I really likyeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybb       jjjhjhfggf - sorry about this - have my 3-year-old assistant helping me here. Tried to say I really like those needles, since bus-knitting would otherwise be absolutely impossible.

No time for blogging either, but now it's time for an update.

Last thing first, since this is also the project I started first, in May!

This is a traditional Ostrobothnian Jussi sweater for a friend. I was asked to bring her one for Midsummer, but as all those for sale were the crappy acrylic ones, I soon decided to knit her a decent one in wool instead. (Besides, those for sale are always grey-dark red, and we both prefer blue. Pattern from an old Novita magazine, rather heavily modified. Yarn Novita 7 veljestä. Width from pattern using Nalle yarn size 160, length from 7-veljestä adult pattern using size S or M. Yes, my friend is tall and thin. Also the traditional Jussi sweater pattern is rather male and not exactly fitted...

Anyway, started out in May, finished knitting in October I think, and then gathered courage to block for quite a while. After blocking it felt as though it turned out too big, so then there was some more time before I finally sewed it together and fastened all the loose ends. Not so much sewing to do fortunately, since I knit this in the round, but still... but far far too many loose ends... The size seems perfect now, I think she'll be really happy when she gets her gift tomorrow!

Between working on this huge project, I knit a pair of gloves for myself to match the hat I made last spring. I did not have enough Fabel yarn left, but made the cuffs a bit shorter, and voilá:

Also, for the kids, hats:

Novita 7 veljestä yarn, pattern from Novita's new extra magazine; can't remember the name. Fortunately a quick and easy project as I had a deadline that I barely made. Would like to make one for myself too, maybe the patterned version. Have plenty of red yarn left as the pattern calls for one skein per hat, and I knit these two out of the same skein...

September is here! Already! What happened?

Summer went by oh so fast. And I did not get much knitting done - first I had pneumonia and was too tired even to knit, then it was too hot to knit - oh yes, we had a really warm summer this year!

Anyway, summer ended, kids in daycare, DH and me working. Not much time for extras. Have actually had time to knit a little now, since I've had to stay home with sick kids a lot... sigh... Nothing big to declare, but a pair of mittens for DS as gloves with fingers may only be used at their daycare if the child can put them on himself.

I'm not a fan of easy quick projects, but after all, they usually are the most useful! Best thing with these: left and right mitt are identical, so when dressing the kid, I won't have the trouble of figuring out which is which.

Ended upp pretty small, I think - made size 3-5 years, and he just turned 3 and they're quite perfect size right now. Too small for my 5-year-old. Maybe my kids have big hands/long fingers?

Oh, and sorry about the last update/missing pic. Was supposed to be a bunch of Jane Austen Knits magazines. Love them! Do not love my phone's Blogger app.