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

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.

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. 

Recycling

can be so much fun.

Lately I've been sewing fleece mittens from leftover material and old fleece clothing. For the rib I've used old children tights.

Also, I pulled out an old sweater that I knitted many years ago. It had become a well-worn (the hem was actually ruined) from use when my children grew out of it. Yet I did not  want to throw it away.

   
Now I have an aunt who fits in the sweater so I decided that either I would fix sweater or I throw it away.

The fixing looks pretty good and it it made the sweater more girly when the pink yarn was added to it. 

The crocheted hem is also hiding all the ruinings so the sweater has become usable and will be fine in all kinds of out door games this spring and summer.