Pattern making

I just completed the pattern based on this model. The dress belongs to a friend and she plans to make one for a grand child for Chistmas. She has bought the yarn from Maria and with less than 4 weeks to Christmas I hope she will make it.

Christmas extravaganza at Kulturhuset

Kulturhuset had a night of creating Christmas extravaganzas. I ended up with a embroidery, something I havn't done in many years.

Annika Huett has designed some modern embroideries that are great and the one I made is "Lugn och fin" (similar to Nice and easy). Of cause I made a misstake, the U is a bit too short... but I didn't get the embroidery stuck to my own cloths as someone else did :-)

Milko inspiration sweater

It's not often I look for details in TV commercials but I do like the collar of this one.

Everyone is knitting!

Here is the latest public knitter. This is from the Christmas decorated windows at NK department store in Stockholm.

More Lovikka mittens

I wanted a pair of Lovikka mittens for myself. So I went to Maria's to buy some grey yarn. I followed the Järbo pattern at first but didn't like the top of the mittens (compare the right and left top) so I changed it.....
..... and they tuned out fine.

I used then Sunday and they are warm and nice and now I only should decide if I should decorate them (no owner of the black mittens wanted decorations).

Lovikka mittens

I did a pair of Lovikka mittens last year for my niece F . It's impossible to resist when a girl asks for knitted gifts! She obviously used then a lot and this year she has gotten bigger hands and asks for a new pair. I go to the store and buy more yarn. Coming home from Hurtigs cafe Tuesday night I started on the first mitten and I completed the second one last night. Mittens are fast and 5 mm needles are "faster" than 2,5 :-)


Then came the UFO that I only have pathetic excuses not to have finished (out of yarn and having a baby not included). I also started and almost (99.x%) finished a pair of mittens for T.

67 minutes after I took the first picture I took the second one and T is smiling.

HV homework 3 (part 1)

I'm in a knitting class, the "Knitting Basics" at HV school this fall and I've so far been to three great weekends. Just to sit and knit for 2 full days and get to know more skilled knitters. I'll tell more about what the weekends have been filled with later.
For the next occation we should prepare some sock and mitten "stubs" to use next time. I'm now done with the required number so the mechanical part of the homework is now completed. Now it's time to start to think about the more creative part and that is to design an own patterns for a pair of mittens. The yarn is Spelsau from Norway, the needles are 2,5 mm dpn.