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

Knit

for Christmas. 

This is part of what I knitted for Christmas presents. 

 My father got this Lopi sweater. He takes our dog out for a walk when my and my family have a long work- or school day and I wanted to give him something warm to wear on cold winters days. 

 The pattern is in Icelandic and English

 I also made a shawl for my mother. It is light and lace like. It is made of color changing yarn and knitted with needle no 4,5 instead of 3. 

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.

December

I decided to knit a few Christmas gifts.

Recently I have been following Brittamis Design on facebook. This summer there was a cloth knitting and in November I decided to knit the ZZ cloth for my sisters.

I knitted three washing clothes from three different colors (two shades of blue). All worked out fine and the pattern is beautiful. I bought soaps from Body shop and put them with the cloths and gave my sisters as Christmas presents.

In November, I decided also to knit a sweater for my dad for Christmas. The pattern is from the book "Prjónað úr íslenskri ull" and is knit from light wool. Actually I do like plötulopi better but decided to follow the pattern.

The sweater is very beautiful and the color tones flow very well together. My assumption is that this is a beautifully designed sweater.

This sweater I knitted for my three year old aunt and gave as Christmas present. The pattern is from "Prjónablaðið Ýr" no 58 and I made it from Smart from Sandnes yarn.

The pattern is ok, but I bought yarn for size 4 years and it was not enough for the size. When I saw that I needed more yarn was it was too late to get one in the same color code, so I had to make some changes in the neckline. I ended up buying a yarn that was similar in color and some fluffy yarn and knitted the neckline with both of those threads.

At last I made the sweater below for my mom as Christmas present. I knitted it last summer so it was just waiting to be handed over.

Summerwork

What a long time it is since I wrote last time. Time passes fast when you are having fun. 

I finished this sweater early this summer and I am very happy with it. It´s made of yarn that has among other fibers linen.  I dug that yarn out of my stock. The colors are much greener than the picture shows.

Then I knitted Lopi sweater for my husband. I knitted it from a leftover wool. It is knit on needles no. 8 and three-plate plðtulopi.

One of my niece's is a dollmama and she ordered this hat for her doll wich had no hat that matched well on the dollhead.

 The same aunt got this pillow for her birthday.

Then there was the jam  making. I made rhubarb jam, rhubarb- and datejam and red currant jelly.

That´s it. Those are the crafts and agriculture work I did this summer.

Granny blanket

This is what I've been doing recently.

 Cute Quilt made of granny squares. Here you can see how granny square is crocheted.

 The quilt is crocheted from a simple plate wool (Icelandic plötulopi) and the size so that it fits well to throw it over me in a couch or chair when watching television or reading a good book.

Now is the time to choose something comfortable on the knitting needles to knit when watching the World Cup. It has to be something TV-friendly so you do not miss cool game and great goals.

Lopisweater

I finished a "Lopapeysa" wich is not in the traditional style the other day.

It is covered with rope-pattern and lace-holes in between.

I'm not going to say how long it took to knit this sweater but it was a veeeery long time, mainly because I got into trouble with the pattern, and also managed entirely by self to make mistakes in it and had therefore to take some pauses knitting it.

I do not quite understand what wet Lopasweater is irresistable for some cats but this one was sleeping on it for a considerable time.

Give a hoot

I made those mittens last spring as a present for a friend. They are called "Give a hoot" and can be found on Ravelry.

They are easy to make because the pattern is very well written and easy to follow.

I used Icelandic léttlopi to knit those. I have also used other types of yarn to knit them from and they always look good.