Finished in 2019

There was a lot of things that I finished in 2019. Some of them are shown below.

This turned out to be a hat

Shawl by Stephen West - All the angles

Shawl by Romy Hill

6 cloths

Sweater made of wool

Halloween mittens

Sweater

Lopi mittens

Shawl by Stephen West

Bag sewn from old jeans

Socks

Cotton sweater

Bella - mittens made of lopi

Nancy sweater

Knitted and colored

This autumn I finished a sweater for my nice

 Since she thinks wool is uncomfortable, I decided to knit a cotton yarn sweater while following a pattern for a Norwegian woolen sweater 

 She loved that sweater and what is best is it does not sting like wool does

This fall I also tried to paint yarn with food colors. It was so much fun. I decided to paint a white einband. When I have time, I have decided to knit mittens with it and use white yarn as the main color.

Working with lopi

This winter, I decided to knit lopi mittens for my son. I used a pattern I wrote and can be found here but decided to cast on 36 sts instead of 34 and I also made then longer.

If I remember it right I made them longer with one extra round between the patterns. I do need to look at it better sometimes.

The son got them and they felt pretty warm when he went to a walk with the dog. (Do you see all the W?) He did not get cold on his hands during the winter after he got them.

Talking about the dog, I took out all my left over plötulopi and knitted a blanket for her (girl dog). She likes to lie on it. I have the blanket in a window that goes down to the floor and there she lies and monitors what happens outside.

Norwegian sweater

I finished this sweater (genser) in January. I used Sisu from Sandnes to knit it from and knitting needles no 2,5 and 3.

It took 2 years to knit it with some resting time in between. It has a lot of pattern in it but fortunately only with 2 colors.

My husband got the sweater when I finally finished it. The sleeves took the longest time to knit because I knitted them nearly five times. First they were too narrow, then I forgot the part of the pattern on one sleeve, but finally they were ready.

And here is the owner in his sweater

The pattern is in a issue from Sandnes yarn that I bought in Oslo. I enjoy knitting Norwegian sweaters but it has been rather small selection of sweater patterns in the knitting magazine that are published in Iceland. So it is a knitting feast when I go to Oslo.

Towel and book

 This is what I am knitting now, washing cloth from Brittamis Design for strikkelystne.

I had to insert both of those picture to show the difference in color. The one above is taken outside while to other one is taken inside. The bluer one is true to the color of the yarn.

I bought this book the few days ago. It contains lot of good looking mittens so when autumn comes I will find left over yarn (and of that I have LOT) and start knitting mittens.

When I bought the book above I was tempted to buy a sock yarn to. I found a book that I bought many years ago but have never knitted anything from and decided to knit a toe up socks from it. I have just started on the toe of the first sock. But they will have to wait until autumn comes because now it is more fun to knit washing cloths with cotton yarn. 

My socks

are finished for some time ago. It took short time to knit them and rather nice to knit from the yarn. Sometimes simple things can be fun to knit.

 It was fun to see the stripes form and nice that I didn´t have to measure anything, "After the white stripe the heel is knitted".

When the heel was done I just knitted over the little toe and then started the decrease. So simple. The socks are very comfortable to wear because the wool is soft.

Eurocup knit

It is always so nice to knit. I found the perfect project to knit when Eurocup in football began now in June. It is not possible for me to knit something complex when the game is on. In the yarn store Handprjón I saw this nice looking yarn and decided to try it.

The Ec project I decided to knit are socks made of this yarn seen above. On the label I could see how many stitches I had to cast on. Then I had to knit until the color of the yarn told me it was time to knit the heel. 

Now it is time to knit the heel and I have to decide what kind of heel I want to knit.

Sheep

I saw this nice cushion from Purl Soho on their webpage. I think he is a classy and the pattern is free.

The pattern for the Sheep cushion can be found here. This pattern goes directly to my "want to do when I have time" bucket list.

Still knitting

but less than before. I started studying mathematics in the fall and it takes a lot of my spare time and therefor there is less time to knit or crochet.

I have almost finish this sweater. It has a high collar so it is necessary to bind off with very loose cast off.
On YouTube I found these two methods and will probably use one of them.

Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-off   and    Simple Stretchy Bind Off

This summer

This summer I have been knitting this and that.

 I started a Norwegian sweater knitted in Sisu wich is a wool yarn from Sandnes yarn. The pattern is from Sandnes yarn to. The work goes slowly because it takes long time to knit a big sweater with small knitting needles. 

The autumn came from Rowan with one the most beautiful knitting magazine for the last few years. There are some number of sweaters and a scarf that I would like to knit that are in the magazine.

I did, of course, buy an coloring book like so many this summer. The one I bought are with insect because I know I would not have the patient to color all the leaves in the Secret garden book.

 I did crochet a table runner from yarn stash that I had had for a long time and did not know what to do with. This was a heap of small balls of cotton yarn. I used crochet needle no. 5 and did cast on enough stitches to fit the table and then I did crochet until all the yarn was finished. 

The latest thing I finished are those woollen socks. I knitted them from wool scraps and I think they came out nicely. 

Dog and hats

This little dog joined the group of amigurumi figure my aunt has few days ago.

 This pattern is from the Candy Magazine 1 and the dog is crocheted from the yarn Candy that is specially designed for the patterns (or the patterns for the yarn).

 So I decided to use rest yarn and knit a hat. The first one was striped from dark brown and gray Smart yarn from Sandnes yarn.

Then came a blue hat with a line that runs over the hat, also from Smart.

  And finally I finished a floral hat I started some time ago. The colors in it are dark gray and creamed. I drew the pattern from a embroidery pattern I found on Pinterset and changed it to fit for the knitting look.

I am writing the pattern for the first two hats, and when it´s ready I will post them on the blog.

Completed projects

So far this year I have finished 3 knitting projects  and 1 crochet project.

 For the first I knitted this sweater for my niece and gave it to her for her 2 years birthday.

The pattern is from Sandnes yarn and knitted from smart no 4611. The size is somewhere between 2 and 4 years. I already have a sweater knit as this one for her sister, so for the first time I've knit 2 sweaters of the same kind.

 I then gave me time to finish this lace knitted sweater that I started a few years ago.

  The pattern and yarn is from Rowan.

The color is as shown in the picture below, a beautiful green but not colorless like this photo. I still decided to put it in because it shows the pattern quite well.

The sweater is in retro style. The only lack in it is that I think because the pattern is a bit old and therefore is the sweater rather short. I need to find out what goes best with my new sweater because I can´t keep it in the closet, it´s too nice for that.