Socks for me

I felt like making just simple socks that can be finished in a day or two, so I grabbed a nice looking ball of yarn from the store and started right away.

For a long time I've wanted to make myself some knee-high socks, but my stupid legs are so skinny that figuring out the right amount of stitches takes some time. With these I got quite close, they are just a bit too big and loose, but they will do nicely on top of stockings and pants. 

This yarn is Novita 7 Veljestä Viidakko in the colour Papukaija. Not my absolute favourite but it was fun to watch the stripe pattern change depending on the number of sticthes. This was a 150g ball of yarn and as I got closer to the end of the second sock, I started to worry if I had enough yarn. Luckily the ball was just enough, what was left was a ball of yarn about the size of a marble.

Btw taking pictures of socks that are on your feet by yourself is not fun. And I had to use flash because it's so dark, but I hope these are not the worst pics you've ever seen. 

Another pair of baby socks

This is also the junasukka pattern. These are a bit smaller than the last pair.

Yarn used is Drops Baby Merino (white) and Drops Fabel (pink). The pattern is simple and I had memorized it already so these were quick to make. I started last night, went to bed and finished this morning. 

Ihan kiva villapaita

Joskus vuodenvaihteen aikoihin ostin Tuulia Salmelan kirjan Neulo saumattomasti ylhäältä alas ja heti oli päästävä kokeilemaan. Väänsin ensin sen minipaidan jonka purin sitten saman tien kun ymmärsin tekniikan, ja sitten vaan langat tilaukseen. Tämän ekan paidan tein äidilleni, mutta jossain vaiheessa teen kyllä itsellenikin. sen verran kivaa oli tehdä.

Lanka on Louhittaren Luolan Väinämöinen Sport, värit Okra ja Smaragdi. Tämä oli myös mulle eka kerta kun neuloin Louhittaren Luolan lankoja. Tämä lanka ainakin oli tosi pehmeää ja mukavaa neuloa, ja värit on tietysti aivan ihanat.

Tein tuohon eteen vähän kuviota, että ei olisi pelkkää sileää mutta ei tuo kyllä kovin hyvin erotu, muuten kuin tietyssä kulmassa ja tietyssä valossa. No, tulipahan tehtyä. Kuvio on Lesley Stanfieldin kirjasta Kauneimmat neulemallit. 

Ja tämä on siis tehty sillä peruspaidan ohjeella. Tein samanlaiset käpertyvät reunat kuin mallikuvassa oli. Muuten hyvä, mutta alareuna meinaa käpertyä liiankin pitkälle, mutta ehkä se käytössä oikenee.

WIP: blanket from left-over sock yarn

I don't remember exactly when I started this, it might have been summer 2014. I was thinking about what to do with all that sock yarn, thought about making a jacket but it just wasn't that exciting. I didn't want to have a huge amount of stitches because that gets boring quickly.

So I wanted a blanket but I didn't want a million stitches. I ended up using this pattern from Drops Design to get a hold of the technique. I like it very much, it's easy to remember ( I don't have to look at the pattern at all anymore) and I only have 20 stitches to work with. 

I recently picked this one up again and it's so much fun to make. I have a huge amount of sock yarn left-overs so this blanket will start to grow a lot. 

Baby socks

A quick project, and fun to make. This pattern is called Junasukat.

Yarn is Drops Fabel. The colour is a much darker purple in real life.

New socks

I mentioned these socks earlier, and now they are done! It took me some time to get started on the second sock, but when I did, it didn't take too long to make.

This yarn is Hot Socks Rubin by Gründl. The yarn is 50% wool and 25% of both bamboo and polyamide. It is smooth and silky and the socks feel very nice when you wear them on bare feet. But that also means that the stitches like to slide off the needles quite often. 

The pattern is just a basic toe-up sock, with ribbing at the back and some increases towards the top.

The same jacket three times

Last spring I started making a jacket for my mom, using this pattern by Drops Design. I finished the jacket during the summer and we blocked it and I made the last details by sewing on the buttons and weaving in ends and all that. The jacket turned out great and she has been wearing it a lot.

This is it. This jacket is size L and made exactly like the pattern, where the multi-coloured yarn is Drops Fabel and the other one is Drops Alpaca.

Then her friend and co-worker saw the jacket and asked if I could make her one too. Of course. She wanted a purple stripe instead of the orange one, and I decided to make the whole jacket in Fabel so it would be easier to wash, since you can put Fabel in the washing machine but Alpaca has to be hand washed. 

These are the only pictures I have of the second jacket, since I finished it some time during the fall and it was given away pretty quickly. This is a size larger than my mom's jacket, XL, and made entirely in Drops Fabel.

But then, the friend who I made this jacket for, wanted to give it to someone else as a christmas present and asked if I could make yet another jacket that she would actually keep for herself. So I did, and I just finished it today and it has been delivered.

So this is the third jacket, this one is the largest size, XXL/XXXL, and like the second one, it's made with Drops Fabel only.

These jackets have kept my busy for a long time, and even though I liked making them, I'm happy to now be able to dedicate most of time for other projects, such as this one: