The advent Calendar Socka are done!

This advent knitting was really fun to be part of. It was the first Christmas knit along that the Bakery Bears held and I can't wait for next years KAL.

Yarn: Opal
Needles: KnitPro Zing 2.50mm

Mystery Christmas KAL

The Bakery Bears podcast duo of Dan and Kay Jones have split the Christmas advent calendar this year by doing their own things. Dan is taking the viewers out on trips to interesting places that have Christmas connections and Kay has started a mystery Christmas Knit along. So on every odd dates its Dan and even dates it's Kay, so the KAL (knit-a-long) is a pair of socks with a Christmas/festive theme.

Day 1.  Fairy Light Ribbing

Day 2. Chimney Stacks

Day 3. Tinsel Lace


Tomorrow is the next section and I can't wait to see what pattern that will be.

Tradera Shopping

I have lately bought some bags that I will be using for my knitting needles and crochet hooks and I'm very pleased with them.

And I also bought this one and still waiting for it to arrive.

The House-warming Blanket has moved.

The happy recipient of the blanket, My stepdaughter Gemma

If you can remember the house warming blanket I was making for my stepdaughter in England, then I can inform you that she has it now on display and is a very proud owner of it. I saw it in real life when my husband and I were over for a visit and it feels good to see that all that work was worth it.

Knyta 70-tals nyckelringar/band

Firstly I have to start saying that this post just have to be in Swedish, but I think you can follow the instructions by looking at the picturest from the link.

Denna bild är från bloggen med instruktionen.

Jag har länge velat göra dessa flätade nyckelrings band som jag gjorde i mängder under 70-talet. Jag minns att jag även gjorde flera långa och sedan använde dom igen och gjorde en ny och det blev starka rep av dem.

Men det har varit så svårt att hitta rätt variant av dessa som gjordes mellan fingrarna på just det sättet jag lärde mig. Testade alla jag hittade på nätet men ingen kändes rätt tills NU!! Såg direkt på bilderna att detta var den varianten jag lärde mig som barn och så fort jag provade så satt det i fingrarna igen. Underbart!

Så ni som minns detta från 70-talet och vill prova igen, här har ni länken till bloggen jag hittade den på (Mitas Hantverks Blogg).

4th Dr. Who Scarf Done!

Done!

The scarf is done and I have to weave in all the ends and make the fringe at both ends. Then it's blocking and it's completely finished.

Yarn used: Drops Karisma, Drops Lima and Cascade 200 Superwash.
Needled: 4.0 mm (US 6)
Started: 10 July 2019
Finished:  2 August 2019

Bombini

Bombini by Kay F Jones

This was a really quick and easy knit. A nice cowl that starts as an triangle and later you knit it in the round. So it's more of a bandanna than a cowl and I love the colours too. If you would like to knit this one, then you find it on Ravelry and the pattern is for a fingering and a worsted weight version.


Started: 27th of July 2019
Finished: 30th of July 2019
Yarn: Drops Fabel
Needles: 3.50 mm

4th Dr. Who Scarf

I and my husband were in England in April this year for the Marillion Week-End (three gigs by Marillion) and we met up with loads of friends, and one of them is a massive Dr. Who fan. He was wearing his long scarf and mentioned to me that he wouldn't mind me knitting him a new one because the one he's wearing is getting a bit knackered.  I told him that I would be more than happy to do that for him so here I am after lots of browsing the net for the pattern and the right colours and then finding the colours in the right yarn weight. I am very pleased with all the colours apart from the "camel/Beige". I found a perfect shade but the yarn was to thick so I had to go with this lighter one and I just hope that my friend will not be disappointed over it.

4th Dr. Who, Tom Baker.

So when I found all the colours I started to knit it on the 10th of July and this is how it looks right now.

The shade of the "Camel" colour is very hard to photograph properly and sometimes it's almost white and others its almost perfect to what I wanted in the first place.

I am over halfway through the pattern now and I hope I will have it finished before we are off to Wales and England in 8 weeks and I can hand it over to him in person if possible.



Yarn used: Drops Karisma, Drops Lima and Cascade 200 Superwash.
Needled: 4.0 mm (US 6)
Started: 10 July 2019
Finished: Still knitting on it.

House-warming Blanket is Finished!

The house warming blanket is finally finished and blocked, just in time for my husband to take it with him and hand it over to his daughter who now shares her first house with another girl, so what better to do than to crochet a house warming blanket for her?

I have to say that I am very pleased with how it turned out and would love to make another one for myself but I have so many other items waiting to be finished first before I start a new thing.

The yarn I was using was Drops Fabel and it's not a good yarn to crochet with because it's very loosely spun so it splits very easily and that is annoying, to say the least, but it turned out to be very good for this blanket.

Started: March 17,  2019
Finished: June  7,  2019

Yarn: Drops Fabel Print
Colourway: 310 (Sunset) and 400 = Black
Hook: 3 mm

Scrappy Socks

I’m a huge fan of the podcast The Bakery Bears with the Husband and Wife duo, Dan and Kay Jones. They have so much going on in their podcast from Knitting, Baking, Cooking History, Games and more, so if you don’t know who they are I would strongly recommend that you give them a go. They started back in 2015 and were not supposed to last that very long but the fans didn’t want them to stop and if you are interested in why then please read under “About” on their homepage and you’ll understand why. So after they announced “Goodbye´” in episode 24 the viewers response to that was overwhelming to the duo because we all said NO!!!! So one viewer informed them that that they could earn a living by doing this by signing up to “Patreon”, so that’s what they did and the rest is history.

To cut o long story short, they have lots of KALs and some CALs and one of the recent ones is a pair of Scrappy Socks where you knit a pair of socks from leftover sock yarn. Great idea I thought because there’s always leftover after you knit a pair and now I could use all of these leftovers to knit a pair to use them all up.

So I joined in and here are mine. I thought to knit both socks at the same time and I didn’t have two sets of the 2.50mm metal needles so one set is bamboo and now I can see that they don’t look the same just because of the fact that they are not both metal, interesting.

The one with metal is neater than the one with bamboo. It’s too late now to change it but I hope after blocking it will sort itself out a bit.

The heel flap is done and you can still see the big difference between the bamboo knitted sock and the metal knitted sock.

And here is the first sock finished, the one knitted with the metal DPNs.

Now I have to finish the second one and find out how that one will look.

/Diana

Pyttipanna Shawl No.15

This is the first shawl (pattern) that I made to learn lace knitting and fell in love with this pattern and I have now made 16 of this one and why this is number 15 is that the first number 15 was made in a yarn I didn’t like how it turned out in so I frogged it. So now I have made it in a colour and yarn that I have for a long time wanted this one in. So do I use them all? No! is the answer because lots of them have been presents and gifts.

So here is “Take 2” of the number 15 of this shawl.

You start with the border and then you pick up stitches along the whole border and then knit the rest with sort rows.

Pattern: Pyttipanna Shawl by Maria Samuelsson
Yarn: King Cole Galaxy DK (2 balls)

The pattern is free and can be found on Ravelry and written in these languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, Norwegian and Polish

House-warming Blanket cont.

Bordering them together.

Next Step!

Now that I have crocheting 103 squares and wanted to start to put them together to see how many extra squares I need to make I noticed that this is taking longer than I thought. But! it's looking good.


Yarn: Drops Fabel Print
Colourway: 310 (Sunset) and 400 = Black
Hook: 3 mm

House-warming Blanket!

My stepdaughter has just moved into her first-ever house that she's sharing with a friend to help with the rent, so to celebrate this event I'm crocheting her a house-warming granny square blanket. I have no idea how many squares I need but time will tell.

Yarn: Drops Fabel Print
Colourway: 310 (Sunset) and 400 = Black
Hook: 3 mm

All Is Calm Socks

Another pair of socks by the lovely Kay F Jones (who you can find on Ravelry) and this time it's the "All Is Calm" socks and the pattern is Only for Platinum PatrePatreons of their Podcast The Bakery Bears.

Yarn: Hatnut Feet
Colourway: 101
Needles: 2.50 mm (US 1½)

Riddari Jumper done!

This was the first time ever that I have done colour work and I'm so pleased that it turned out so well as it did. I am going to knit more of this one in other colours and I have all the yarn for it already.

Yarn used: Ístex Léttlopi
Needles: 3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7)
Pattern: Riddari by Védís Jónsdóttir at Ravelry or at Järbo Garn AB.

Blizzard Socks are done!

Then the Blizzard Socks are finished! Another pair of socks by Kay F Jones and another pattern that's only for patreons of their podcast The Bakery Bears.

Yarn: Hatnut Feet
Colourway: 102
Needles: 2.50 (US 1½)